#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.
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
Take Mexx Meerdink, fuck it.
We need Zirkzee to have a Fenomeno season
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.
We need Zirkzee to have a Fenomeno season