GREECE V ITALY

[arxidi]

lol bragging rights??
hahaha

dude this game is a friendly

the only time 'friendlies' give people bragging rights are on FIFA (xbox/playstation)

[Pao Thyra 13]

Koutsyianikoulis us in the greek squad he is definetly one of the best upcoming stars for the greek national team along with Ninis and maybe Pilatsikas. But really whocares about this game its a freindly if Greece win il be happy if they lose i wont give a shit.

[Juventino]

Chiellini better get through training and the match 100% or I'll be pissed off. Need him to keep tabs on Ibra this Saturday. In fact, I hope no Juventini play.

[Motley]

The more I think about it this game this is very much a waste of time. 2 3rd string sides playing each other

Hopefully its helps in our preparation for up coming qualificaiton matches and none of the boys (particularly the Oly reps) suffer injuries of any kind.

Having said all this I will tease the itali if we win.

[hellas_08]

will tease the itali if we win.

same re


i have a strong feeling we will win .

[hellas_08]

does any1 know if HFC have organised anything

cheers

[hellas_08]

SQUAD :

Goalkeepers: Costas Halkias (PAOK Salonika), Alexandros Tzorvas (Panathinaikos)

Defenders: Traianos Dellas (Anorthosis Famagusta), Socratis Papastathopoulos (Genoa), Nikos Spyropoulos, Loukas Vintra (both Panathinaikos), Avraam Papadopoulos, Vassilis Torosidis (both Olympiakos Piraeus)

Midfielders: Costas Katsouranis (Benfica), Giorgos Karagounis, Sotiris Ninis, Alexandros Tziolis (all Panathinaikos), Christos Patsatzoglou (Olympiakos), Angelos Basinas, Vassilis Pliatsikas (AEK Athens)

Strikers: Fanis Gekas (Bayer Leverkusen), Nikos Liberopoulos (Eintracht Frankfurt), Vangelis Mantzios, Dimitris Salpigidis (both Panathinaikos), Vassilis Koutsianikoulis (Ergotelis)

[hellas_08]

my starting 11

..................................... tzorbas ....................................

Torosidis ............ Avraam ............ papastrathopoulos ............... Spyropoulos

Ninis ............... Karagounis ....... Katsouranis ........ Koutsianikoulis


...................... Mantzios ................... Gekas ......................

[hellas_08]

The more I think about it this game this is very much a waste of time. 2 3rd string sides playing each other

Hopefully its helps in our preparation for up coming qualificaiton matches and none of the boys (particularly the Oly reps) suffer injuries of any kind.

Having said all this I will tease the itali if we win.

knowing otto it will probably be our first team with a few second string players but still the usual yeri. i dont see him using the youngsters which is a shame because it is only a friendly and we should get some youngsters capped and more experience

expected starting 11

chalkias
dellas
spyropoulos
a.papadopoulos
torosidis
katsouranis
karagounis
basinas
tziolis
gekas
mantzios

only players that i agree in that bunch are papa. , karagouni and matzios

[SpursOnTheRise]

I cant believe Del Piero didnt get selected, same with Cassano. I dont like Lippi's bias towards certain players, how can he pick Toni over Del Piero...as much as Del Piero doesnt really do much for the national team but which ones do!? None, Gila is crap for azzurri, so is Del Piero and Toni, Cassano hasnt really been tested and Pepe and Quaglia are new to the set up. The only striker who delivers for us at the moment is Di Natale.

Hopefully my Fiorentina boys do La Viola proud!

[hellas_08]

i am guessing del piero isnt in the squad due to the fact juve dont wanna risk him in case he gets injured and misses inter v juve

[Pao Thyra 13]

I cant believe Del Piero didnt get selected, same with Cassano. I dont like Lippi's bias towards certain players, how can he pick Toni over Del Piero...as much as Del Piero doesnt really do much for the national team but which ones do!? None, Gila is crap for azzurri, so is Del Piero and Toni, Cassano hasnt really been tested and Pepe and Quaglia are new to the set up. The only striker who delivers for us at the moment is Di Natale.

Hopefully my Fiorentina boys do La Viola proud!

I dont think Lippi get along very well with Cassano.

[Piola]

Del Piero isn't called up because he is 34 and Lippi knows exactly what he is capable of. The only time we'll ever see Del Piero back in blue again is during bigger games and provided he is in the same type of form he is in now.

Cassano not called up because of the 'Cassanata'.

this is a real mehhh game, why is it even on during a non-FIFA date??? What time is kickoff anyway?? I can't understand why such a pointless fixture is arranged but gotta watch it anyway. Cant get enough calcio

[diegom]

Del Piero isn't called up because he is 34 and Lippi knows exactly what he is capable of. The only time we'll ever see Del Piero back in blue again is during bigger games and provided he is in the same type of form he is in now.

Cassano not called up because of the 'Cassanata'.

this is a real mehhh game, why is it even on during a non-FIFA date??? What time is kickoff anyway?? I can't understand why such a pointless fixture is arranged but gotta watch it anyway. Cant get enough calcio

come 2 my house mate, we can watch it together.
then we can watch roma v lazio, and chat about that

[SpursOnTheRise]

Del Piero isn't called up because he is 34 and Lippi knows exactly what he is capable of. The only time we'll ever see Del Piero back in blue again is during bigger games and provided he is in the same type of form he is in now.

Cassano not called up because of the 'Cassanata'.

this is a real mehhh game, why is it even on during a non-FIFA date??? What time is kickoff anyway?? I can't understand why such a pointless fixture is arranged but gotta watch it anyway. Cant get enough calcio

Yeh i guess, hopefully he gives Quagliarella a starting spot instead of Toni, as much as i like Toni, im sick of him not scoring.

[Juventino]

I cant believe Del Piero didnt get selected, same with Cassano. I dont like Lippi's bias towards certain players, how can he pick Toni over Del Piero...as much as Del Piero doesnt really do much for the national team but which ones do!? None, Gila is crap for azzurri, so is Del Piero and Toni, Cassano hasnt really been tested and Pepe and Quaglia are new to the set up. The only striker who delivers for us at the moment is Di Natale.

Hopefully my Fiorentina boys do La Viola proud!

Can't compare and question Toni over Del Piero with the two being different sort of strikers.

[hellas_08]

streams: http://www.justin.tv/pasgiannena
http://www.justin.tv/nick56789
http://www.justin.tv/ellinaras


these following streams are not comfirmed streams of greece v italy but usually show soccer games

[Juventino]

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?match ... art=sports

check back in a few hours and this will have streams.

[hellas_08]

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?match ... art=sports

check back in a few hours and this will have streams.

very good site to find streams and stuff myp2p

[hellas_08]

hope for a 2-1 victory wih the youngsters getting plenty of game ttime
and to c tzorbas in goals for 2nd

[The Kop]

Starting back 4 + keeper confirmed by Otto:

------------Tzorvas

Vyntra--Papastat-Dellas--Torosidis


If you want streams you can download the greeklive application (http://www.greeklive.tv/Downloads.asp) and use the free 3 day trial for the game. Of course you eyetalians will have to put up with greek commentary if unmuted.

However, absolute perfection in quality, best stream ive ever seen - about 750kps

[COLOSSUS]

who cares seriously, cant believe all the fuss over a meaningless friendly. Like Laziale said, the only reason why we would watch it is to coz we cant get enough of the BALLA these days

We are addicts of the round ball i tell ya

[hellas_08]

1-1

[TOPGUNJIMMYAUFC]

1-1

missed it, really,

so did we play good at least!! or did italy play better, who watched..

[ChelseaFC]

End of the day you would have expected both Gekas and Toni to score!!!!

[Salpigidis]

who scored the goals?

[kolobaras]

Gekas (50) was on end of thru ball and comfortably slotted past keeper.

Toni (55) who hadnt scored for the azzuri ffor 12 months to the day

out foxed his defender peeling off for a header across the keeper for his goal.

Greece look to have unearthed a quality keeper.

pulled of some great saves on debut. 8+ from memory

[kolobaras]

Alexandros Tzorvas take a bow.

[ChelseaFC]

Greece have always pulled out Good Keepers, but ones who aren't very consistant.... Lets hope they've made the right choice!!!

Didnt watch the game personally, would rather sleep and get up for work....

[Pao Thyra 13]

Good keepers? Do you call Nikopolidi a good keeper the guy played a few games during Euro 2004 and thats it.