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Greece Wins 3-1 Over Portugal

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Greece in Penalty Kicks with Nikapolidis scoring the winner to send the Danforth into orgasm!

Reality:

Portugal 2-0 - Ronaldo and Deco with the goals
 

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I don't think it will be such a high scoring name. Since this is the decisive game, both teams will be try to be defensively tight as possible. I know Greece beat Portugal earlier, but the Portugese team now is very strong defensively and on offense as well. They were crushed under pressure in their opener so I wouldn't use that as a guideline. I'm predicting a 2-1 victory in favour of Portugal.
 

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My hats off to Greece. They dont play the prettiest soccer, but the end result matters most. Sure they only scored, what 7 goals in 6 games, but they only conceded 4, 2 of them to Russia of all teams.

And here is an irrelevant stupid sports fact:

Greece won, they have blue/white in their colour scheme
Patriots won the superbowl, they have blue/white in their colour scheme

Lightning won, they have blue/white in their colour scheme
Pistons won, they have blue/white in their colour scheme.

only the Marlins screwed up the theme, maybe a certain hockey will keep the trend next year...the New York Rangers of course : )~
 

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the_big_E said:
....................And here is an irrelevant stupid sports fact:
Greece won, they have blue/white in their colour scheme
Patriots won the superbowl, they have blue/white in their colour scheme
Lightning won, they have blue/white in their colour scheme
Pistons won, they have blue/white in their colour scheme.
only the Marlins screwed up the theme, maybe a certain hockey will keep the trend next year...the New York Rangers of course : )~
FC Porto won the UEFA.......wearing blue&white.
 

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Hey, where's Kev??
LOL

OPAAAAAAAA!

Don't be haters.
Greece deserved to win, having outplayed just about everyone in the tourney.

:D
 

Kev

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Kudos to Greece they bored everyone with there play and managed to pull of a win.

Its amazing how lucky one team can be. Greece was 80-1 at the beginning of the tournament and 11-2 for this game to win. Who put there money on them at the beginning of the tournament. No one. Its good thing there was lots of room on the bandwagon for you hey Ranger?

One thing i'll give credit to Greece besides there defence was their goaltending. The old man did a great job. --- Kev
 

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Benhur said:
FC Porto won the UEFA.......wearing blue&white.
They didn't win the UEFA (last year yes).. but won the Champions League this year.
 

Ranger68

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Yeah, all luck.
Portugal, Spain, France, Czech, Portugal again.
Total fluke.
LOL
Nice try, kev. ;)

OPPAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Nice job, Greeks. It was good to see those complacent, total-defense-minded teams get their come-uppance. Hopefully, this will trigger some stylistic changes in the approach of those static, zone-playing coaches.
 

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Re: Kudos to Greece they bored everyone with there play and managed to pull of a win.

Kev said:
Its amazing how lucky one team can be. Greece was 80-1 at the beginning of the tournament and 11-2 for this game to win. Who put there money on them at the beginning of the tournament. No one.
I don't think too many people put their money on them at the begining, but I did put a dime on them for the final game, the line was Greece +1/2 goal + 20 cents.
 

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Ranger68 said:
Yeah, all luck.
Portugal, Spain, France, Czech, Portugal again.
Total fluke.
LOL
Nice try, kev. ;)

OPPAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Nice job, Greeks. It was good to see those complacent, total-defense-minded teams get their come-uppance. Hopefully, this will trigger some stylistic changes in the approach of those static, zone-playing coaches.
Weren't the Greeks one of those defense-minded teams as well? They were certainly well organized and disciplined in their defensive tactics, anyway. They didn't beat all defense-minded teams. The Czechs played the most attacking football of the tournament and I really thought they'd stick it to the Greeks in the Semis. I'm sure France would've liked to have played on the offensive as well, but they couldn't seem to do anything right. And Portugal was often on the offensive as well. They definitely took it to England when they went into a defensive shell...
 

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Everyone I have talked to would agree with you Sancho. The Greeks played sound defensive football with a mind to counter-attack when the option presented itself. That is to take nothing away from their stunning success.

There are others (see Ranger above) who would disagree.

To me they are the New Jersey Devils of European football.

SQ
 

Toronto Passions

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Before Greece won, the only pro sport they had to be proud of was what, European basketball?

I guess when you get a team to play German soccer with a free Greek spirit, you have a shot to win. And they showed that. I hope this sets a new standard as far as coaching Greek kids learning to play the game. This is by far the best system they have ever played. A little too much on there heals at times though. They got lucky here and there.
 

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Sancho said:
Weren't the Greeks one of those defense-minded teams as well? They were certainly well organized and disciplined in their defensive tactics, anyway. They didn't beat all defense-minded teams. The Czechs played the most attacking football of the tournament and I really thought they'd stick it to the Greeks in the Semis. I'm sure France would've liked to have played on the offensive as well, but they couldn't seem to do anything right. And Portugal was often on the offensive as well. They definitely took it to England when they went into a defensive shell...
The difference was they played AGGRESSIVE defense - hard-checking man-to-man - no sitting back in the zone and waiting for the opponent to try to break you down, which makes for LETHALLY dull soccer. The Greeks played up-tempo on both sides of the ball.
 

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superquad1968 said:
Everyone I have talked to would agree with you Sancho. The Greeks played sound defensive football with a mind to counter-attack when the option presented itself. That is to take nothing away from their stunning success.

There are others (see Ranger above) who would disagree.

To me they are the New Jersey Devils of European football.

SQ
I don't disagree with anything you've said.
Come on, superquad, learn to read.
I said they didn't play dull football. They played defensive, not dull, football.

And your analogy with the Devils ain't so bad. Because the Devils were often maligned for their style - which wasn't NEARLY as bad as half the teams they were playing - often including the Leafs.

For dull football, nobody but NOBODY matches the Germans and Italians. Paint dries quicker. And every soccer authority I've heard over the past month agrees with that, so .......
 
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