Greece Boosts Defence Against Turkey for March Meeting

[admin]

Greece Boosts Defence Against Turkey for March Meeting


Greece national team coach Otto Rehhagel has released the names of the players that make up the squad that will go up against Turkey (3/24/07) and Malta (3/28/07) for the EURO 2008 qualifiers resuming next week.


Rehhagel has brought in Panathinaikos pair Dimitris Papadopoulos and Dimitris Salpingidis who have scored 23 times in the league this season, dropping fellow Panathinaikos striker Vasilis Mantzios.

Squad

Goalkeepers: Antonis Nikopolidis (Olympiakos Piraeus), Kostas Halkias (Aris Salonika)

Defenders: Yannis Goumas (Panathinaikos), Loukas Vyntra (Panathinaikos), Giorgos Anatolakis (Olympiakos), Vassilis Torosidis (Olympiakos), Sotiris Kyrgiakos (Eintracht Frankfurt), Takis Fyssas (Hearts), Yourkas Seitaridis (Atletico Madrid), Traianos Dellas (AEK Athens), Michalis Kapsis (APOEL)

Midfielders: Stelios Giannakopoulos (Bolton Wanderers), Giorgos Karagounis (Benfica), Kostas Katsouranis (Benfica), Alexandros Tziolis (Panathinaikos), Angelos Basinas (Mallorca)

Strikers: Yannis Amanatidis (Eintracht Frankfurt), Nikos Liberopoulos (AEK Athens), Angelos Haristeas (Feyernoord), Fanis Gekas (VFL Bochum), Dimitris Papadopoulos (Panathinaikos), Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos), Giorgos Samaras (Manchester City)

[killer_6]

This is going to be epic...

Potential to be the match of the year.

[killer_6]

Why so many strikers though?

I would have left out Papadopoulos and maybe Amanatidis. Charisteas is hurt(?)

I would have liked to see Patsa in the lineup and maybe another young midfielder...

But strong lineup overall, I can't wait for the match.

[admin]

My question is what happened to Lagos?

he was great... Otto is crazy... our midfield looks really sparse...

[killer_6]

He was great with the national team last time but he's been a dissapointment with AEK. He had a few great matches around the last time he played with the Ethniki, but he lost his form and then he got hurt. He's currently injured.

He's still young I think he'll improve but he's not been impressive this year, save a few matches around October/November...