Hellas against Malta & Hungary

[PAO_HELLAS]

There is no stress for a good result in the two remaining games for the Euro 2007 qualifiers, so they will be a good chance of Rehagel to make some trials.

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Spyros Louis Olympic stadium, Athens
17 November 2007
21:30 Greek time

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Ferenc Puskás, Budapest
21 November 2007
21:15 Greek time

[OCFP]

I hope he calls all the young kids. these teams will be going for wins to improve there draw for WC qualifier so it would be a giid test. Its exactly what I hoped for. Qualify with games remaining.

[Hellas40]

It is great isnt it, i think im actually going to enjoy watching these games knowing that we have already qualified. My heart wont be racing and i can just relax and watch the boys kick some ass.

I would like to see some new faces as well (maybe on the bench) but we still have to put our best players on the park to acheive a better seed for the WC 2010 qualifying campaign.

Is there any friendlies coming up??, thats a perfect time to give others a chance.

[PAO_HELLAS]

Rehhagel had announced the "emmigrants" of the Greek squad for the two remaining games:

Kostas Katsouranis (Benfica)
Giourkas Seitaridis (Atletico Madrid)
Angelos Basinas (Real Mallorca)
Stelios Giannakopoulos (Bolton)
Giorgos Samaras (Manchester City)
Fanis Gekas (Bayer Leverkusen)
Sotiris Kyrgiakos (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Ioannis Amanatidis (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Michalis Kapsis (APOEL)

The players from Greece are not announced yet.

[PAO_HELLAS]

The players from Greece announced:

Antonis Nikopolidis (Olympiacos)
Kostas Chalkias (Aris)
Christos Patsatzoglou (Olympiacos)
Vassilis Torosidis (Olympiacos)
Nikos Spyropoulos (Panionios)
Trainos Dellas (AEK Athens)
Nikos Lymberopoulos (AEK Athens)
Georgios Karagounis (Panathinaikos)
Loukas Vintra (Panathinaikos)
Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos)
Alexandros Tziolis (Panathinaikos)
Giannis Goumas (Panathinaikos)

[PAO_HELLAS]

Giourkas Seitaridis is excluded from the squad because of his tenton injury.

[aekgate21]

I hope turkey beat Norway so they too can qualify i would not meeting up with them again in the euro champioships

[PAO_HELLAS]

The game against Malta is going to be the 74th game of Otto Rehhagel with the National team of Greece. He is reaching the 74-game record of Alketas Panagoulias. The game against Hungary will be his 75th so he is going to be the manager that coaches in Greece for the biggest duration.

[PAO_HELLAS]

The game is going to start in a few minutes. From what I can see on TV they are about 30,000 people in the stadium.

[PAO_HELLAS]

Nothing great so far, except a very good chance lost by Malta.

[PAO_HELLAS]

1-0 by Gekas.

[Saraj Fanático]

I kinda don't want Greece to win this since they will have 28 points and make every other team in the group look like retards on the field.

[Panathinaikos2]

I kinda don't want Greece to win this since they will have 28 points and make every other team in the group look like retards on the field.:lol: :lol:

[PAO_HELLAS]

I understand you Saraj :D. However the point difference is representative of the form of the teams this season. And Malta is too weak for taking a result from Greece away, except if the very difficult thing happens.

[PAO_HELLAS]

Nice goal by Basinas. 2-0.

[Panathinaikos2]

Great goal from Basinas!! By the way happy 17 November to every Greek in here ;)

[PAO_HELLAS]

Second goal by Amanatidis in second continuous game! 3-0.

[Panathinaikos2]

Goal Amanatidis!!!!!!!!! GREECE 3-0 MALTA!!!!

[Panathinaikos2]

Lymberopoulos hits the post!!

[PAO_HELLAS]

4-0. 2nd goal of Gekas in the game.

[Panathinaikos2]

4-0 Goal Gekas!!!!

[PAO_HELLAS]

Gekas again :lol:. 5-0.

[Saraj Fanático]

Damn good work. Just make sure to do the same for us vs Hungary.

5-0!?? Aw man this is crazy.

[poutismalakas]

HAHAHAH hey Pana happy Nov 17 :D

[poutismalakas]

5-0 Hellas!!!!!!!!!!

[poutismalakas]

Gekas has THREE GOALS!!!

[Panathinaikos2]

5-0 Greece!!! Gekas Makes A Hat Trick!!!!

[PAO_HELLAS]

HAHAHAH hey Pana happy Nov 17 :D

Ah yes, happy November 17 anniversary to everyone (even if ti finishes in an hour...)

[Panathinaikos2]

HAHAHAH hey Pana happy Nov 17 :DThanks!! No Greek must ever forget how hard we fought for democracy in the 60s and early 70s!! And what better way to celebrate this victory than to demolish Malta 5-0 :D !!!!!

[poutismalakas]

Lets see if we can get 7-0 or 8-0???

[PAO_HELLAS]

Gekas had 2 more chances after his 3rd goal. They are 5 minutes left though, I think one more goal is the most that is possible.

[poutismalakas]

Either way Hellas is going into the Cup in TOP FORM!!!!!!!!!

[Panathinaikos2]

***k Lymberopoulos missed a big chance!!

[Panathinaikos2]

Greece wins 5-0 :) Howevor the score could have been much higher!! What an amazing game ;) By the way they are doing fire works in the stadium :D

[PAO_HELLAS]

***k Lymberopoulos missed a big chance!!

It was cancelled as off-side bacause of Gekas' interference :lol: .

[PAO_HELLAS]

Either way Hellas is going into the Cup in TOP FORM!!!!!!!!!

They are still several months till the Euro though. Rehhagel has to follow the form of the players as time passes.

[PAO_HELLAS]

What is also notable is that Nikos Spyropoulos made his first ever appearance with the National team in this game. He showed good signs.

[Pape]

congrats to Hellas
bring us back memories from Euro, we will be home watching
:worried:

[Panathinaikos2]

What is also notable is that Nikos Spyropoulos made his first ever appearance with the National team in this game. He showed good signs.Yea Spyropoulos is probley our best LB at the moment. Howevor I don't know why Otto plays Torosidis in the left back instead of Spyropoulos as Torosidis is a midfielder and not an LB! Torosidis would be so much more valuable for us if he plays in his midfield position.

[Panathinaikos2]

congrats to Hellas
bring us back memories from Euro, we will be home watching
:worried:I'm sorry I was very dissapointed when Belgium lost as this meant Serbia wasn't going to qualify :(

[Panathinaikos2]

By the way here are the goals http://www.goal4replay.net/GoalWatch.asp?ID=3492&Ln=En

[plato-ny]

http://lucrurineinteresante.blogspot.com/2007/11/final-fight-for-first-pot-ii.html

Greece wins and they are in pot 1 of WC qual draw

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The current pots for Euro according to contra.gr

Pot 1
Austria (host), Swiss (host), Greece (Euro Champ), Holland (2.521)

Pot 2
Croatia(2.380), Germany(2.363), Italy(2.333) , Czech(2.304)

Pot 3
England(2.285), Portugal(2.240) , Sweden(2.238), Poland(2.217)

Pot 4
Romania(2.217), France(2.142), Spain(2.142) , Turkey(1.913)

England, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey have not officially passed yet

[OCFP]

http://lucrurineinteresante.blogspot.com/2007/11/final-fight-for-first-pot-ii.html

Greece wins and they are in pot 1 of WC qual draw

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The current pots for Euro according to contra.gr

Pot 1
Austria (host), Swiss (host), Greece (Euro Champ), Holland (2.521)

Pot 2
Croatia(2.380), Germany(2.363), Italy(2.333) , Czech(2.304)

Pot 3
England(2.285), Portugal(2.240) , Sweden(2.238), Poland(2.217)

Pot 4
Romania(2.217), France(2.142), Spain(2.142) , Turkey(1.913)

England, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey have not officially passed yet

WOW nice post. i didnt know we moved so high in the WC qualifiers. and man are these Euro Groups going to be HARD. Imagine us getting Italy, England and France/Spain in our group. :sick: :sick:

And these drawing are both soon. any1 have a date off hand???

[plato-ny]

Nov 25 is the WC qual draw and Dec 2 is the Euro draw (back-to-back Sundays)

[Saraj Fanático]

Whats the line up for this one?

[PAO_HELLAS]

Dellas is out because he reached the card limit. Goumas and Torosidis will bbe also left out of the squad because of injuries. For the first eleven we don't know what Rehhagel has in mind, if he is going to make many changes in comparison with the previous game.

[PAO_HELLAS]

Hungary-Greece 1-1 half time score.

Both were own goals. Bad game for Greece, I think the last time we saw Greece playing like this was in the game against Albania in 2005. In this game we had a quarter we were better, but in general we did not show anything special. The problems in the defense are also many. Let's see how big will be the recovery in the second half.

[PAO_HELLAS]

Hungary-Greece 1-2 final score.

Probably the worst game for Greece in the qualifiers of Euro 2008. Even worse than the first game against Turkey. The 3 points and the win is what we have to keep though.

Final summary in 12 games: 10 wins-1 draw-1 lose

[Saraj Fanático]

ARGGGGGGHHHH!!!!! GREECCCEEE!!!! You are ***king genius! God I will go down to Athens and kiss Basinas sometime this month! Thank you so much! You repaid us for the Norway win.

Congrads on collecting the most points and showing what a defending champ is. Bravo!

[PAO_HELLAS]

Thanks Saraj :D.

Group C - final table

1. Greece 31 12
2. Turkey 24 12
3. Norway 23 12
4. Bosnia-Herzegovina 13 12
5. Moldova 12 12
6. Hungary 12 12
7. Malta 5 12

[poutismalakas]

Thanks Saraj

Go HELLAS!!! On to the EuroCup to defend our Cup!!!!!!!!