#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.
laser pen? wtf is greece fan doing in the stadium with laser?
What is this 2003
Same thing as at AEK - Ajax.
Ik kan er zo slecht tegen dat Weghorst zo vreselijk overdreven aan Virgil z’n nek gaat hangen na het scoren van die penalty. Komt zo gemaakt over allemaal. Ik geloof dat je passie hebt en blij bent dat we winnen, maar laat de captain even zn ding doen aub.
Hernandez Hernandez is the worst referee i have ever seen
Not even the worst Spanish one tbh.
But is he at least the worst spanish referee that gets Uefa matches? (Please say yes)
What a referee😂.
But at the and a deserved win.
Btw fuck of with your laser lights.
Reijnders was fantastic before he was moved up, Hartman best player on the field.
Simons and Weghorst really bad.
Simons wasn’t useful, but also wasn’t useless. The moment he got taken off we immediately lacked any form of forward progression
Lol @ the Simons mention. You probably also booed Ziyech when he was playing for you because (despite the many chances he created an goals he was involved in) he lost the ball sometimes?
You in your feelings? That’s cute
reijnders is always fantastic
reijnders is always fantastic
Simons wasn’t useful, but also wasn’t useless. The moment he got taken off we immediately lacked any form of forward progression
Should have had 4 penalties but whatever.
I dont want to see Weghorst in the NT ever again.
Probably still usefull as a sub tbh. But shouldnt start.
He’s one of those momentum footballer’s you bring in in the last 15 minutes to annoy the fuck out of everyone and force mistakes with tireless running lol.
It’s just so annoying that his ego makes him throw a massive hissy fit when he isn’t starting. Can’t wait until we have Memphis and Gakpo back
Idk. Not really missing Memphis tbf
Only 4? It was close to 16 penalties and 9 reds against greece for NL. Disgraceful refereeing
- Handball whilst falling down
- Foul on van Dijk (given)
- Foul on Dumfries (given)
- Foul on Brobbey
- Support hand (not given)
- Foul By Van Dijk (given)
- Dive (given)
- Actual penalty (not given)
- It is not a “support hand” if he goes out of his way to move his hand towards the ball. 2&3. 😂😂😂
- Glad we at least agree on something.
WHOOP WHOOP🙌
Terrible match, but the result is all that matters.
Streep eronder en door
Oranje inwisselen voor groen, ik ben weer een Springboks fan.
Without Frenkie and Gakpo and (less so) depay, de ligt, lang… was hard to expect much more
We are winning the whole thing!!
How can that last foul not be a penalty after being checked by the VAR?
Cause he already gave 2 controversial ones. Even though the last one was the clearest one
The 2nd given pen was in no way controversial. Idk why that was even sent to the screen.
Brobbey is getting slightly pulled and falls forward. That’s not how momentum works. He dove 100%
Are you talking about the potential pen at the end? Brobbey wasn’t fouled for the 0-1, that was Dumfries.
I’m talking about the scored penalty. I was mistaken on who the dutch player was there
They do look similar tbf
I guess for possible foul by Brobbey a tiny second earlier.
2 non-existent penalties awarded, 1 stonewall penalty denied. Somebody give me what the ref is smoking.
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?
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.
Lol should have 4
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
*2 clear penalties not awarded, 1 of 2 correctly awarded penalties almost overturned by a moronic VAR.
Lol should have 4
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.
Very hard-fought but imo deserved win in the end if you look at the chances. Definitely not the prettiest match, but thats to be expected when the stakes are this high. Also how was that last moment not a penalty, ref seemed a bit intimated there
Right at the death
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
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