The Netherlands took advantage of the… miss matches with “close” Greece

The easy one Holland’s 3-0 win over Greece yesterday at the “Philips Stadium” for the Euro 2024 qualifiers, it was not only a matter of quality difference, but also… height. The “oranie” took full advantage of her their superiority in bodies, in the set phases and not only. It is characteristic that they won all the aerial duels in the first half and most of them in the second, hitting in… miss matches, as the basketball players would say.

And this was not just a coincidence, if one takes a look at the heights of the two rosters. The Netherlands in all static phases filled the area with one “aviation” which consisted among others of players such as Van Dijk (1.93m), Dumfries (1.88m), Hapko (1.93m), Weghorst (1.97m), Heertruida (1.84m), De Rowan (1.85m), but also the shorter Ake (1.80m), De Jong (1.81m), Blind (1.80m) and Simmons (1.79m), while from the bench they brought De Frei (1.89m), De Ligt (1.89m), Reiders (1.85m), Fehrman (1.85m) and the stocky Lang (1.70m).

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The comparison with the Greek heights it’s… unfair and Mavropanos (1.94m.) missed the most inappropriate game due to his sending off against France. The National team had Hadzidiakos (1.85m), Retso (1.86m), Tsimika (1.79m), Rota (1.80m), Kourbelis (1.81m), Siopi (1 .68m.), Bakaseta (1.81m.), Mandalo (1.77m.), Masoura (1.84m.) and Pavlidis (1.86m.), while Koulierakis (1.88m.) were recruited as substitutes, Giannoulis (1.78m), Fountas (1.70m), Giakoumakis (1.85m) and Bouchalakis (1.86m).

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