France-Greece: For the best against Mbappe’s company, the… airy national team!

A difficult but at the same time… brilliant test for her Greek national team! On Monday evening (19/6, 21:45) the ensemble of Gustavo Poget is hosted by the great France at the “Stade de France”, as part of the 4th matchday of Group B of the Euro 2024 qualifiers.

Undoubtedly, a showdown of specific (huge) demands for our representative group, which whatever scores against its team Kylian Mbappe will constitute a profit. That’s where Gustavo Poget stated that his team will play their game and that they don’t intend to just defend.

After all, the National Team is also in good momentum. Last Friday (16/9) it made 2/2 in the group by winning 2-1 Ireland at the OPAP Arena, with Bakaseta having a goal and an assist and Masura scoring the winning goal. Thus, after the first place in its group in the Nations League, it is in 2nd place (the first two give a ticket to the final phase, while there is always a 2nd chance through the Nations League) and in +3 from the Netherlands which, as it turns out, will be the “behemoth” he will try to leave out. Besides, the two teams face each other in the next matchday (7/9), with the “Oranie” having suffered a heavy defeat (4-0) at the home of France. There and… even one point tonight for Greece, will give them the lead.

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Of course, France is in first place, with the world runner-up having made 3/3 without even conceding a goal. The previous weekend, the team of Nnidie Deschamps – who praised the national team and remembered his association with Poget at Chelsea – defeated Gibraltar 3-0 in Portugal, in a match where the visitors found the post four times.

In the competitive part, in the last training of the national team on Sunday (18/6) at the “Stade de France” Baldoc, Pelkas, Mandalos and Kourbelis followed a different program from the rest based on the fatigue of each one, but the situation did not inspire concern their. Baldock is the most injured of the four, but is expected to be in the starting line-up despite ankle problems. The absentee list is also empty for the home team, which remains to be seen if they will make (even a small) rotation, with the depth of roster of course to cause them… awe.

It should be noted that approx. are expected at the stadium 1000 Greek fans, mainly from France and the surrounding countries. It is recalled that the match is sold out since the end of May.

The game will be televised by Novasports Prime and ALPHAradioed by News Bulletin 247while there will be live updates from sport-fm.gr.

Possible compositions:

France (Didier Deschamps): Menian – Koute, Konate, Upamecano, T. Hernandez – Tswameni, Kamavinga – Dembele, Griezmann, Mbappe – Mouani.

Greece (Gustavo Poget): Vlachodimos – Baldok, Mavropanos, Hatzidiakos, Tsimikas – Kourbelis, Siopis – Masouras, Bakasetas, Mandalos – Pavlidis (Giakoumakis).

In the other match of the group, Ireland hosts it Gibraltar (also Wednesdays at 21:45).

The score of the B group:

It is worth mentioning that Greece has the upper hand in its meetings with France. Of course, the victory stands out (1-0) with the head of Charisteas in his “8”. Euro 2004, in the golden course of our representative group. Previously, the two teams had met in the qualifiers of the Nations Cup 1960. The first match at Leoforo ended in a draw (1-1), with the French reaching widespread dominance (7-1) in the second leg at the Parc des Princes.