Greece suffers 3-1 defeat in Glasgow

[Intime Sports]

Greece paid for its mediocre defending successful acceptable pieces successful Glasgow to suffer a 3-1 reverse to Scotland connected Thursday for the qualifiers of the 2026 World Cup, adjacent though it had dominated the crippled up to the infinitesimal it opened the score.

For astir of the lucifer the Greeks had singular question disconnected the shot too, and businesslike sum of space, while besides winning astir of the 50-50 balls astatine Hampden Park.

Despite creating tons of spaces for themselves with clever overlaps and dummy moves, the Greeks were unable to translate their superiority into goals earlier the 62nd minute, when the unit paid disconnected with a team determination that filled the Scottish container with Greek bodies and Kostas Tsimikas opened the people with his archetypal ever extremity for the nationalist team.

However it lone took the Scots two minutes to equalize, arsenic a lapse of attraction successful the Greek defence aft a country from the left, led to some inept clearance that near the shot to the feet of Ryan Christie who tossed the Greek nett from adjacent range.

It got worse connected the 80th infinitesimal when the Greek defence was erstwhile again unable to support a acceptable piece, this clip a escaped kick, with Lewis Ferguson capitalizing connected the melee to propulsion the shot into the nett of goalkeeper Kostantis Tzolakis.

Substitute Konstantinos Karetsas was denied by the keeper successful wounded time, earlier amnother mediocre clearance, this clip by Tzolakis, talented the shot to Lyndon Dykes who added Scotland’s third from a alternatively choky angle.

Greece is leaving Scotland empty-handed and connected Sunday Greece it is traveling to Denmark where it indispensable not lose.