Comments on: Greece Win Euro 2004 Final, Again http://euro2008.worldcupblog.org/news/greece-win-euro-2004-final-again.html News from Euro 2008 Championships in Austria and Switzerland. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:39:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Pedro http://euro2008.worldcupblog.org/news/greece-win-euro-2004-final-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-27 Pedro Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:46:46 +0000 http://euro2008.worldcupblog.org/news/greece-win-euro-2004-final-again.html#comment-27 Plus Simao had to leave early, Quaresma was not only uninspired and had a super strong man-marking, making it very difficult for him. Without CR and Nani, PT's strongest aspect, the wings, was killed. Which was, at the end, good, in order to be forced to improvise... Anyway, this match was rather to check other midfiled options and it turned out that it actually improved with 2 strikers, something usually unseen with PT. The 60 million duo Pepe - Ricardo Carvalho dind't really tick as good as with Bruno Alves, playing better and better with FC porto. We also missed Bosingwa, currently our best righ-full back. It's like having both a defender and an extra winger... All in all, GRE played better than PT, except in most of the 2nd half; where even with a new system, or no system, PT almost drew. But PT was way below par. GRE's freekicks were, indeed, excellent. They still miss the guy at SL Benfica... Plus Simao had to leave early, Quaresma was not only uninspired and had a super strong man-marking, making it very difficult for him.
Without CR and Nani, PT’s strongest aspect, the wings, was killed. Which was, at the end, good, in order to be forced to improvise…
Anyway, this match was rather to check other midfiled options and it turned out that it actually improved with 2 strikers, something usually unseen with PT.
The 60 million duo Pepe – Ricardo Carvalho dind’t really tick as good as with Bruno Alves, playing better and better with FC porto.
We also missed Bosingwa, currently our best righ-full back. It’s like having both a defender and an extra winger…
All in all, GRE played better than PT, except in most of the 2nd half; where even with a new system, or no system, PT almost drew. But PT was way below par.
GRE’s freekicks were, indeed, excellent. They still miss the guy at SL Benfica…

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