#FT: Greece 0-1 Netherlands


Venue: OPAP Arena

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Greece

Odisseas Vlachodimos, Panagiotis Retsos, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Konstantinos Koulierakis (Manolis Siopis), Lazaros Rota, Dimitrios Kourbelis (Andreas Bouchalakis), Petros Mantalos (Vangelis Pavlidis), Anastasios Bakasetas (Taxiarchis Fountas), Fotis Ioannidis, Kostas Tsimikas, Georgios Masouras (Georgios Giakoumakis).

Subs: Giannis Konstantelias, Dimitris Pelkas, Anastasios Chatzigiovanis, Dimitris Giannoulis, Alexandros Paschalakis, Dimitrios Goutas, Sokratis Dioudis.

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Netherlands

Bart Verbruggen, Nathan Aké, Virgil van Dijk, Quilindschy Hartman (Micky van de Ven), Lutsharel Geertruida (Donyell Malen), Xavi Simons (Joey Veerman), Tijjani Reijnders, Mats Wieffer (Marten de Roon), Wout Weghorst (Brian Brobbey), Steven Bergwijn, Denzel Dumfries.

Subs: Daley Blind, Ian Maatsen, Calvin Stengs, Nick Olij, Andries Noppert, Stefan de Vrij, Jeremie Frimpong.


MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN

13’ Lutsharel Geertruida (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

13’ Dimitrios Kourbelis (Greece) is shown the yellow card.

28’ Penalty saved. Wout Weghorst (Netherlands) right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.

28’ Petros Mantalos (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

45’ Substitution, Netherlands. Donyell Malen replaces Lutsharel Geertruida.

51’ Xavi Simons (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

60’ Substitution, Greece. Taxiarchis Fountas replaces Anastasios Bakasetas because of an injury.

61’ Substitution, Greece. Andreas Bouchalakis replaces Dimitrios Kourbelis.

61’ Substitution, Greece. Manolis Siopis replaces Konstantinos Koulierakis.

62’ Substitution, Netherlands. Brian Brobbey replaces Wout Weghorst.

62’ Substitution, Netherlands. Joey Veerman replaces Xavi Simons.

74’ Substitution, Netherlands. Micky van de Ven replaces Quilindschy Hartman.

76’ Panagiotis Retsos (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

77’ Substitution, Greece. Giorgos Giakoumakis replaces Giorgos Masouras.

81’ Substitution, Netherlands. Marten de Roon replaces Mats Wieffer because of an injury.

81’ Substitution, Greece. Vangelis Pavlidis replaces Petros Mantalos.

86’ Vangelis Pavlidis (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

90’+3’ Goal! Greece 0, Netherlands 1. Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.

  • fanischris17@alien.topB
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    PLAYER RATINGS [the most objective you’ll find]

    GREECE [5-3-2]: G. Poyet 6 Vlachodimos 8 - Rota 5, Mavropanos 6, Retsos 6.5, Koulierakis 5 [60’ Siopis 6], Tsimikas 6.5 - Masouras 6, Kourbelis 5 [60’ Bouchalakis 5], Mantalos 5.5 [80’ Pavlidis 4] - Bakasetas 5 [60’ Fountas 5], Ioannidis 7

    NETHERLANDS [3-4-3]: R. Koeman 7 Verbruggen 6 - Geertruida 5 [45’ Malen 6], Van Dijk 8, Ake 6.5 - Dumfries 7, Wieffer 6.5 [80’ de Roon 5], Reijnders 7, Hartman 6 [75’ van de Ven 5] - Simons 6 [60’ Veerman 5.5], Weghorst 4 [60’ Brobbey 5.5], Bergwijn 6.5

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    11 months ago

    Really hope some attacking power comes back next time, this really was bad. 4-3-3 after halftime looked good for 15 minutes, but not that convincing otherwise.

    Also, how was that last one not a pen? He clearly clips his leg, did he hit the ball a tiny bit or something?

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    11 months ago

    We weren’t great, crazy that we legit should’ve had 4 pens instead of 2. The foul on Brobbey and the guy who dived one ball with his arm first in the first half.

    Never let Weghorst take a pen again.

    Again, sloppy game but with 4 of our starting 11 out injured we should just be happy we won.

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      11 months ago

      IIRC, if a hand is supporting your weight while falling, it can’t be given as a handball. That is presumably the judgement

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        He clearly moved his entire body and arm towards the ball to block it though. If the rules say that wasn’t a pen then the rules suck.

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          11 months ago

          yea by the current interpretation they can literally act as goalkeepers on low shots

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          yea by the current interpretation they can literally act as goalkeepers on low shots

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        11 months ago

        Yeah but we both know that wasn’t the case. He literally lunged at the ball.

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        11 months ago

        Still hilarious that the replay just looks like his shoulder and the ball had some magnetic pull

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        11 months ago

        Still hilarious that the replay just looks like his shoulder and the ball had some magnetic pull

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        He clearly moved his entire body and arm towards the ball to block it though. If the rules say that wasn’t a pen then the rules suck.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah but we both know that wasn’t the case. He literally lunged at the ball.

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      IIRC, if a hand is supporting your weight while falling, it can’t be given as a handball. That is presumably the judgement

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    11 months ago

    Fair play to Greece, those long balls in the second half were really scary. Realistically we should have converted some of those chances we had in the first half but luckily we got away with it, as our play today just wasn’t good enough.

    Hopefully we somehow find a centre forward underneath the floorboards somewhere before the Euros

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      Hopefully we somehow find a centre forward underneath the floorboards somewhere before the Euros

      I’d like to see Brobbey get another go. He came in when our ball progression was essentially gone with Hartman and wieffer off the pitch and he still gave the lay off for the Dumfries pen and should have gotten another penalty himself. He wasn’t stellar but he was definitely better than Weghorst. Or play malen centrally, he was ass on the left.

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    11 months ago

    Shame. Boys played well, and that second pen really shouldn’t have been given IMO after he looked at it on the monitor. Ody deserves to play at the highest level. Ioannidis should’ve squared it to Masouras.

    Oh well. There’s still the playoffs to look forward. Dangerous teams over there as well; Kazakhstan, Luxembourg and Georgia are nothing to scoff at and have shown how dangerous they can be in the qualifiers, but I still like our chances. The team has improved lots from the failures of the past few campaigns, and we can only be proud of it. We shall go for it in March 😤

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        11 months ago

        Way I saw it the contact was extremely light by Pavlidis, Dumfries almost fell by himself. I understand why he gave it, putting your arms out like that is practically asking for it, but plays like this were not called penalties countless of times before.

        And to not give the other sour guy an interaction, the last VAR check absolutely was a pen, but he probably wouldn’t make it out the field if he did give it lmao