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We Are The Champions (pg. 4)
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| malek |
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edit: what the was on the grill?? |
wish I knew... :/ |
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| The Greek |
| it was a lamb : ) |
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| Paulie |
| quote: | Originally posted by RenderedDream
well done!
it's a bit strange how a defensive team with 8 men defending and 2 attacking can win an european with such great attack teams can win the tournament
i doubt they would have had the same success if they played the same games that portugal did (england and holland) but they resisted to the best striker of the tournament and that means something
i'm glad greece won and not some big team with many cup's in their history |
Hey dip, we beat chechz, france and portugal twice, so dont give me that we wouldnt of had same success if we played england and holland :rolleyes:
CAMPIONE!!!! LOL
fark who would of picked it lol
Congratulations to all the greeks who were teh only fans that stuck by the team :)
Today We are Champions. |
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GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
To sikosame to gamimeno :)
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| Simcut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cal
One of the few times where being lucky and then going full defense actually worked.
Greece does not deserve the cup. |
dont talk such ing nonsense, any team that can beat France, Czech Republic and Portugal and hold on to it and keep a clean sheet deserve everything!! |
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| dj_mdma |
| well done Greece :D |
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| paranoik0 |
congrats greek people
| quote: | Originally posted by Madjer
hehe, you got it :happy2: :toocool:
since I was kid, the older ones called me so, because I often played with the backkick (I mean german:'Hacke') and scored other impossible goals :crazy: |
cool nick, that goal is one of the best ever and it won a cup for us |
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| teknoking |
| Greece easily has the best defense in the world atm.. an absolute brick wall |
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| TrAnCeAkI |
I partied so much last night here in greece, that i lost my voice!!!!!! IN YOUR FACESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :P
einai bariaaaa, baria h poutsa tou tsolia :P |
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| evil_bastard |
Before the Greece goal, how many chances did Portugal create? None. In an hour all they muster up was a couple of half chances while Greece had wasted the best chance of the game. So if anyone deserved to be ahead after an hour, it was Greece for their better attacking football.
After the goal Portugal created more because they had no choice, they were 30 minutes from defeat. I don't really accept this notion that Portugal are an attacking team and Greece a defensive one. Portugal keep a lot of possession, they use wide men and play with only one striker. With them, 4-3-3 very quickly becomes 4-5-1. Playing that kind of formation means plenty of men in midfield and a greater likelihood of possession but at the expense of genuine goalscoring opportunities because you rarely have more than one man in the penalty box. A team that plays like this is not a very attacking team in my mind, they're a cautious team who feel the need to be in possession in midfield by putting an extra man there who could otherwise be a striker. There was a time when 4-3-3 was seen as an attacking formation played with 3 strikers, but Portugal's formation involves Maniche and Constinha, and while Maniche got forward and got a couple of goals in this tournament he did a lot of defensive work, as did Costinha. By packing the midfield in this way you will get a lot of possession in the opposition half but you only have one striker to convert those 'chances', and I don't call whipping the ball into the penalty area a 'chance' if there is noone there to convert it. Just look the number of shots Portugal have from outside the box.
Up until their goal, when Greece found themselves with the ball in the Portuguese half they had a more positive attitude, they weren't afriad to get more than one man in the penalty area even if it meant they were more susceptible to the counter attack.
Greece are very well organised defensively, but they do get men forward and do look for chances, they don't wait until the 89th minute as some people have suggested. The Portuguese are a possession team (they had 60% of possession yesterday) but they are more comfortable playing on the counter-attack. We saw this against Spain, when Portugal had to score they loooked incapable for an hour, but when they got their goal and Spain had to come forward and score, the Portuguese were much happier defending and hitting them on the break, and began to play a lot better. Let's not forget the first game of the tournament, where Greece shocked everyone by scoring after 7 minutes, and then got a second. Just because you have a well organised defence and team strategy that doesn't make you a defensive boring team. |
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| razmataz |
| quote: | Originally posted by RenderedDream
well done!
it's a bit strange how a defensive team with 8 men defending and 2 attacking can win an european with such great attack teams can win the tournament
i doubt they would have had the same success if they played the same games that portugal did (england and holland) but they resisted to the best striker of the tournament and that means something
i'm glad greece won and not some big team with many cup's in their history |
I think Greece had a tougher path than Portugal. They played Portugal, Spain, Russia, France, Czech, Portugal and conceded only 4 goals (2 of which against Russia).
So they played the hosts twice, the defending champions, and the hottest team of the tournament, beating them all and conceding one goal.
That alone deserves the cup. |
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| RenderedDream |
portugal playing like they did, they deserve the cup
i don't know what happened to the portuguese players..bunch of gay diving players..portugal did a lot better than greece before the final
greece played a lot better in the final than portugal and was an outstanding surprise
i think either portugal or greece deserved the cup and usually the best win =) |
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