Greece-Finland: Enter the Jovanovic era with a win

OR National our team enters the new era! OR Greece welcomes her Finland on 21:45 (Novasports Prime, Alpha & News Bulletin 247) in Karaiskakis at the premiere of the Nations League, with Ivan Jovanovich to debut on the bench.

Our representative group will play for the first time in a competition for the institution’s League B, with England and Ireland making up the other two teams in Group 2.

“Of course we want to win. There is no question of what we want. It will be a boost for the players themselves. As a dominant element to have patience and good circulation. Finland defends well and counter attacks.

Because we will be playing at home, we will be in a great mood. It won’t be easy but nothing is easy. It’s a new beginning. To complete as a player they must have a very big success. The National team and a big event is something that stays forever as they did generations ago. This generation should try to do it too” mentioned among others Jovanovicat yesterday’s press conference.

The Serbian technician is normally available to Sapphirewho recently gained the right to participate in the National Team, while Retsos was left out of the squad due to injury.

As far as the tradition is concerned, the Greece is 9-3-6 against the Finnswith their last meeting being in November 2019, when “Blue and White” won 2-1 at home, in a match for the Euro qualifiers.

The possible lineups

Greece (I. Jovanovic): Vlachodimos, Rota, Mavropanos, Hatzidiakos, Tsimikas, Siopis, Mandalos, Bakasetas, Masouras, Pelkas, Ioannidis

Finland (M. Kanerva): Hratetski, Stal, Tenho, Ivanov, Uronen, Kamara, Lund, Kairinen, Pojanpalo, Puki, Adaman

Referee: Scherer (Switzerland)

Assistants: De Almeida, Ernie (Switzerland)

4th: Chudi (Switzerland)

VAR: San, Von Mandach