Disastrous 25-minute spell ends Greece’s World Cup hopes

Greece’s nationalist soccer team precocious earned the Greek fans’ admiration and the opponents’ respect with its attacking style, that besides saw it ascent to the top level of the UEFA Nations League. However it appears it has mislaid its diagnostic antiaircraft capabilities successful the process, those that saw it march to glory earlier this century.

This has led to conceding 9 goals successful the past three games, arsenic the Blue-and-Whites mislaid 3-1 astatine Copenhagen to an unforgiving Denmark connected Sunday and person mislaid each anticipation of making the top two spots of their 2026 World Cup qualifying group, with two matches near to play.

After a productive but scoreless archetypal 20 minutes, Greece recovered itself trailing owed to a mistake astatine the back: Christos Zafeiris tried a backpass to keeper Odysseas Vlachodimos, Rasmus Hojlund said “thank you very much” and slotted the shot into the Greek net, beauteous overmuch against the tally of play.

Less than 20 minutes later, a Glasgow deja-vu had a Mikkel Damsgaard country footwear from the near picked Joachim Andersen who headed the shot location for 2-0.

As if that hadn’t been enough, different mistake successful the Greek defense, this clip by Konstantinos Koulierakis, created mayhem successful the container that Damsgaard capitalized connected to marque it 3-0 with a 15-meter shot.

Just aft the hr people Greece pushed guardant and a diagonal changeable by Tasos Bakasetas deed the upright, a infinitesimal earlier Fotis Ioannidis slid the shot into the container for Christos Tzolis to people Greece’s consolation.

In the second stages of the crippled the woodwork did twice the occupation the Greek defence could not, keeping the people astatine 3-1.

To their credit, the 2,000-2,300 Greece fans kept singing for the Greeks passim the crippled contempt its course. But they will cognize they will person to watch different World Cup connected TV.

In November, successful its past two games for the group, Greece will big Scotland and visit Belarus.