#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.

  • Billion34@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Far too many individual mistakes and we got away with most thanks to the players putting in extra effort and getting into last ditch tackles. The plan was solid, the lads gave everything, Ioannidis ripped apart that Ake bloke, Retsos has a place in my heart for yelling in the face of Brobbey and Vlachodimos can only be assumed has testicles the size of melons. We’ll make it through Nations League on March.

    May Ronald Koeman manage the Dutch for years to come.

  • alb1rom0@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    What an embarassing match for the Dutch. Koeman is the biggest fraud manager of all time

  • hetdelaatje@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Very hard-fought but imo deserved win in the end if you look at the chances. Definitely not the prettiest match, but thats to be expected when the stakes are this high. Also how was that last moment not a penalty, ref seemed a bit intimated there

  • StereoZombie@alien.topB
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    1 year 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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      1 year ago

      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.

  • GingerPolarBear@alien.topB
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    1 year 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?

  • Qvdv@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Awful match made slightly more fun by the VAR and referee giving us something entertaining to watch.

  • ItzzTheo@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    We fought hard for it but Netherlands is clearly the better team and with much more quality.

      • Jemmo1@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        It means you made not 1 mistake but you made 2 mistakes. With the whole ‘balancing’ you create different rules and thus confusion for players. Why is it allowed today and not next week? Why was it allowed last game and not today…?

      • ZedGenius@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        The game ended after the second pen. That’s not balancing out lol. It’s like getting robbed a win in a title race, then being awarded a draw you didn’t deserve after the other team secures the title.

  • Follow_The_Lore@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Ngl I actually like we won this way. Will make the Greek fans even more annoyed, deserved for the laser pens.

    • fullsenditt@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Sorry to break It up for you but some people need to realize that Greeks dont care about shit and they will bring lasers to their volleyball/football/basketball matches no matter what happens until the end of the time. Call It “culture” , “rude” or “unsportsmanlike” It’s your choice but they will never learn/change. I just mention It so you don’t need to waste your energy ever again to that matter and restore It for something better