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If logic has a voice, then it ‘speaks’ through Muric’s intervention in the Bacaceta penalty. And he said that without him, the solution cannot always come from the white parliament. Greece were 0-0 with Kosovo, after throwing away more than an hour of play until they found their balance on the field. When he did, he had a rival of time and pressure, in addition to coach Salades. Previously he had to face the decisions of his own coach.
In the match against Moldova, it was a penalty in the loss of the middle, in combination with the dismissal of the ‘perpetrator’, that gave the solution to the enigma of the goal. It would not be so easy against Kosovo. Greece saw Sala’s gracious patronage return through Bacaceta’s foot in the hands of Mouric, the 22-year-old Manchester City goalkeeper (on loan this year at Girona) who caught his seventh career penalty in a total of 12 executions. John Fant Sip was happy with the image against Moldova or had not identified the misplaced options in the starting lineup. Whatever happened to both of them was a problem. A problem that did not matter about stops and faces, but about the logic of the Dutch coach.
With right … a very good stopper (Hatzidiakos), two central midfielders who curse on the field but lag behind in their skills with the ball (Zeka – Kourbelis), left-winger hunter an axis player (Mandalos) and in the role from ’10 ari ‘a footballer who has a technical and quality training but who does not have the acceleration required with or without the ball to the measures that he was’ charged’ in the third part of the attack. It was natural for Greece to show a lack of creation, inspiration, cooperation and coherence in the production of phases, since with this selection of people for this tactic, the beans did not come out. And all the phases were created because Kosovo had the illusion that it could push high, leaving large spaces between its lines and free measures to pass a few passes to its defense.
Limnios was Greece’s best player in the first half, even if he does not play as a key player in Cologne. To the point that one wonders how different, for the better, the image of the national team could be if there were an elemental balance in the other positions of the midfield and the offensive line. The 22-year-old winger was a constant headache for the Kosovo defense, a problem that players took on the field on their team’s bench. Without cover, Patsaranda was unable to limit him, but Lemnos’ creation was not exploited by his peers.
Vlachodimos prevented the creation of a Moldova thriller of … 9 players, catching a penalty in the final minutes of the match. Now he had to intervene much earlier, stopping Kastrati at four on four in 46 ‘, while Hadjidiakos’ help was needed six minutes later to avoid fatality. With the international stopper removing the ball before crossing the line in Patsaranda’s place … Kosovo was brave, however they overestimated their potential and insisted on cheap mistakes to give conditions to the goals in Greece. Conditions that John Fant Sip’s team could not take full advantage of, due to the imbalance of their lines. Characteristic of the phase with Limnios, having the ball at the feet, to show Hadjidiakos where to move to get the excess from the right with overlap …
Fant Ship decided to go into its more rational form after an hour of fighting. With Bouchalakis instead of Zekas and Fountas instead of Mandalos. Little by little, Fortounis and Pelkas entered the game. The ball circulated better in the third half of the field towards the attack, the wings gained a better balance but the decisions of the Dutch coach were rival in time. And the pressure. Meanwhile, Kosovo (which lined up with 18 and not 23 players at OAKA due to absences it faced) adapted to the situation, interpreting the change from irrational to logical. So he put all his players behind the ball, organized in the midfield and kept short distances between his lines. Greece’s picture was clearly softer – not quite like the plug change with … plug (Hatzidiakos – Lambropoulos) in the right-back position doesn’t make sense – but to get there it took almost 70 minutes to fight.
Now Slovenia is ahead of the group and the situation will be reversed only if Fant Sip players make 2/2 for the rest of the tournament. For now they have the role of outsiders and hunters. In the game against Moldova, problems were hidden under the carpet of victory. The conversation revolved around Fortounis and the reasons for not using him in the starting lineup. But before the faces, there is a more serious issue and it is the logic of the Dutch coach in reading the games and adapting to the data. A logic that shouted in OAKA, low and was heard in the games with Moldova and Slovenia in November, the last two for the Nations League …
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