Another victory, in front of about 20,000 of her friends, took the National football. Showing for another match signs of progress, Greece defeated her Slovakia 4-1, in a friendly preparation made in Pancreas.
National football showed another stability in the midfielder, created many opportunities and scored with Constantelia (16 ′), Pavlidis (66 ′), Douvika (88 ′) and Hadsar’s own goal (90 ‘+2 ′). The blue-white had moments that worked defensively, with Mandas having significant interventions and a penalty shootout at 11 ′ with the match at 0-0.
The first half of Greece – Slovakia was shared. National football had a good start and only at 7 ′ reached a goal. After Giannoulis’ push, Pavlidis left against, reached the opponent, he executed, but the opponent was kicked out.
National football saw Karetsa enter the … dance of missed opportunities, but in 11 Slovakia touched 0-1. Streliek was ideally attacked in the blue -white area, Mandas overthrew him and the referee gave a penalty. The Greek goalkeeper, however, fell correctly in the right corner and kicked out the Dunda’s execution (double surgery, as he also “pulled out” by Schartz’s shot).
Greece uploaded “turns”, pressed effectively in the center, won balls and at 16 ′ opened the scoring. Jolis opened the game nicely, Pavlidis executed inside the area, Dubravka fired, the ball got height and Constantiles entered the phase and almost made it 1-0 with … back!
The sequel was impressive and aggressive for Ivan Jovanovic’s team. For the next ten minutes he dominated and missed great opportunities, with Pavlidis unable to score. Against the flow of the match, however, Slovakia reached 1-1. Strelets made a beautiful vertical ball at 34 ′ and Hudsko dug the ball over the Manda for the equalizer.
Ethniki showed losing its rhythm, with Slovakia “better” on the pitch. The guests more easily released the ball, created good opportunities, but Mandas was on alert whenever needed.
From the first minutes of the repetition, National Football played with uplifted lines and pressing in the center. Slovakia has shown to cope with these conditions, despite the efforts, of Zafiris, Joli, Vagiannidis, Giannoulis, Kontelia and Karetsa. The mood existed, but the creation of phases was desperately reduced.
Seeing his team, unable to become dangerous, Ivan Jovanovic made changes to the 64 ′ (Siopis instead of Zafiris, Bakassetas instead of Constantiles and Massouras instead of Careca). Two minutes later, it came 2-1 for the blue whites. Giannoulis pulled the cross from the left, Massauras tried to execute through the big area, with the ball reaching Pavlidis, who sent it to the net.
Bakassetas then took several initiatives, holding the ball and organizing the National Game. The blue-white put the … icing in the match at 88 ′ with Duvika-he went to the match at 71′-to make it 3-1.
The final 4-1 came in the delays, with a Harsar goal.