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Originally Posted by Dazz
Hey Yianni, I brought my Greek flag to uni with me, to hang out the window, but now I am back home for a few days so I can't do it, nevertheless I am supporting your boys tonight.
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Well they won. Ole ole ole ole Hellas Hellas
The goals were scored in the first half by KING THEO ZAGORAKIS (first international goal) and a penalty from Angelos Basinas. Poor defending and lack of communication up the back from Nikopolidis gifted Denmark a goal in first half injury time and the 2-1 scoreline remained for the rest of the game. From the highlights we were absolutely outstanding in the first half and should have buried Denmark but were a bit sloppy in the second period and had to rely on some decent saves by Nikopolidis to grind out the win.
The win promotes us to 2nd in Group 2, with a game in hand over Ukraine who are in first place. They had a 0-2 win over Albania and are 6 points ahead of Greece now. The advantage we have is that we have already played them away from home and we managed with a decent result, a 1-1 draw having come from a goal down. So we have Ukraine at home for the return fixture and if we win that game we'll close them up. Next game up for Greece is next month away to Georgia then a home game against Albania. We really (and must) win these games convincingly and set ourselves up to finish at the very least in 2nd spot. Still, we have yet to play Denmark and Turkey away so it will be difficult.
Just quietly, recently whenever we've had Collina as the referee we've always won (Euro 2004, Denmark game). Good omen, UEFA should keep him reffing our games for the rest of the campaign.
