#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.
how was that not a penalty at the end, hernandez is such a useless ref
What a referee😂.
But at the and a deserved win.
Btw fuck of with your laser lights.
We are winning the whole thing!!
Weghorst can piss off.
Also this match was fucking atrocious, just godawful.
Still don’t understand why he ever starts. He’s only ever good as a sub at the end. He adds absolutely fuck all in the first 60 minutes of a match.
Also why on earth did the man who never scores take the penalty?
Still our striker, don’t really mind that one honestly.
58% conversion rate on penalties apparently, I very much mind that one.
For sure, but it’s not like Vam Dijks rare is better lately.
Can’t find any stats for Van Dijk but the average is about 75% conversion. Surely we have players who aren’t far below average?
Really only one I can find from Virgil was his miss against Argentina
Signed by a big club gets you an automatic free ticket, and one heroic free kick in his entire career is enough to stay on-board. Despite having five goals this entire year.
Really beats me
Maybe Koeman likes the way he sings the anthem or something
Prime Hernandez performance
2 non-existent penalties awarded, 1 stonewall penalty denied. Somebody give me what the ref is smoking.
Lol should have 4
Lol should have 4
Didn’t see the first one, but the second pen was clear right? How could that not be one
2 non-existent penalties awarded
What are you smoking?
Evidently something weaker than the ref.
Evidently something weaker than the ref.
Yeah and people want 4 or 5 penalties called and reds lol. You won and you’re through. Take it and move on.
Oh well. On to the playoff
I am Greek, we did not win. The stonewall penalty was the one on Brobbey.
I know, I’m Greek too, I’m talking to the Dutch supporters. Crying about lasers and wanting 20 pens called and reds.
They’re the better team, do they really need all the officiating help too in order to win? If they were really dominant, they would have scored from open play.
These teams are a lot closer than people think lol, except one won their euro 40 years ago, and the other won theirs 20 years ago.
These teams are a lot closer than people think lol
Are they? Greece were shit in the away game. Lost by a big margin and created next to no chances. Were shit again today. but against a side with like 11 players injured. Creating no chances while needing the win.
are they?
Yeah because we’ve won something recently lol
All this yapping yet you can’t close out a tournament in modern football 🤷♂️, we have.
Close against the Argentines, but not quite. Close isn’t good enough.
Whens the last time youve been to a tournament
When’s the last time you’ve won one? You probably weren’t even alive for it. Maybe you can watch the highlights in black and white. I enjoyed ours.
2004 isn’t recent and doesn’t say anything about quality of the teams now. Or recently for that matter.
How embarrassing, we lost against the eventual world champions. You haven’t been good enough to even enter a tournament in almost 10 years. Pipe down
2004 is a lot more recent than the 70s. Germany weren’t fielding 2 different teams in 2004. 21st century against all time greats like CR7, you know, active players.
how embarrassing
No, what’s embarrassing is being labelled some footballing super power in the top 10 and being perpetual losers for almost 50 years.
Maybe they’ll give you more pen calls in the tournament for you to win games. We’ll see you there after we beat the Georgians.
If you ever want to be taken seriously as a league and football nation then get rid of the lasers first lmao.
Sorry, I thought your comment referred to me. But dominance on the day or past successes do not matter. If a refereeing decision is wrong, it’s just wrong.
It doesn’t matter if you have a better team and rules are rules. But at the and it was a deserved win. Good game though.
And yes those people should fuck off with those laser lights.
I don’t even know nor care anymore.
We did get those pens because we were in the box so much, it’s amazing none of the shots went in throughout the match.
Still fair play, you’ll make it through the playoffs, if you keep that up.
I don’t even know nor care anymore.
We did get those pens because we were in the box so much, it’s amazing none of the shots went in throughout the match.
Still fair play, you’ll make it through the playoffs, if you keep that up.
*2 clear penalties not awarded, 1 of 2 correctly awarded penalties almost overturned by a moronic VAR.
the first “non-existant” penalty literally prevented a goal that was being scored because he blew the whistle early
It was a foul by Van Dijk. You don’t get to play advantage if you are the one comitting the foul afaik
Well, considering we didnt the penalty with the handball, and didnt get the penalty with the foul on Brobbey, it cancels each other out
The only clear out of the 2 is the tackle on brobbey at the end that was not given. And if the previous one is not given, the game never gets into a situation for the one after to take place anyway
True but unfortunately irrelevant. It was not a penalty and it was also a mistake to blow the whistle that early.
2 non-existent penalties awarded
What are you smoking?
Ngl I actually like we won this way. Will make the Greek fans even more annoyed, deserved for the laser pens.
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
This Dutch team has some serious issues but Greece came up short against both them and France in some close games
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?
Veerman leuke voetballer voor de Eredivisie maar laten we t daar asjeblieft bij houden. Schouten is de beste middenvelder van PSV.
De Veermanhype neemt aparte vormen aan. Tegen Gibraltar mag hij wel spelen, maar wat mij betreft blijft hij verder lekker thuis. Veerman is 24, dus misschien is dit niet zijn plafond, maar ik zie hem niet nog een klasse of twee beter worden.
Veerman is leuk als ie alle tijd en ruimte krijgt zoals in de Eredivisie. Als ie met zn man mee moet lopen of meters moet maken om meer ruimte voor zichzelf te creëren, wordt t gewoon allemaal wat lastiger. Prima voetballer, maar niet voor het NL elftal.
Precies, geen topspeler in het moderne voetbal. Wel een balgevoel om je vingers bij af te likken en het is een grappig ventje.
Met Frenk, Reijnders, Gravenberch, Koopmeiners, Schouten en Wieffer zitten we daar wel goed de komende tijd
Koeman vindt het jammer dat er geen penalty specialisten zijn.
Ik kan me die van Koopmeiners nog wel herinneren.
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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
Netherlands played terrible. Greece had to win but played without any strikers? Referee was trying to be the star of the game and VAR was horrid. Lasers on the players from the stands, the pitch quality was a joke. Everything about this was horrible.
Greece has played this way for a long time
We fought hard for it but Netherlands is clearly the better team and with much more quality.