Coming out, one way or another.

Static positions, no movement about, just waiting for the ball to come to them? Which it doesn’t create the spaces and loose the impact momentum brings in the deployment of a sequence of events. Timid attempts, even though you would not expect resolve and determination, but there is not spirit either, no coherence in the team.

Amanatidis in a throw-in, desperate for some response from his team mates. Everyone covered by a Spanish player, compromising any receipt of the ball, and yet despite that, no player made a move to free themselves from their opponents.

Charisteas scored 1-0 for Greece. He enjoys his game, his  effort comes out straight from Charisteas of Euro 2004. Theatrics from Karagounis,  that bloody  camera can give you the tiniest detail from very far. A glimpse of his alert eye between his fingers, watching out for the reactions his tantrum has.

Would such approaches by players act in a negative way in a game? Diluting resolve, destroying the flow of the game, trying to win a game with devious ways. Which beyond issues of fair wins, is the compromise of their final efforts, usually in the opponent team’s goalpost, where the urge for to dive to get a penalty, negates the release of energy to give an extra inch in his effort to score the goal.

Something I noticed in the first game of Turkey, where they lost with Tuncay the culprit. An issue remedied in the next two games, where the Turks displayed outstanding resolve. Focusing directly on their game.

Judgment? Would that be an appropriate word? In this case? Of football games? Judgment requiring the use of reason, rationality. Something which I see as redundant in the flow of a game. And yet it occurred to me. Is it  actually judgment at play here? Or the unwarranted invasion of judgment where it shouldn’t be.  

That is the first ever display of creative, chaotic football I’ve seen from the Greek team that resulted in a spirited pass of Charisteas’ in front of the Spanish goalpost.  A near miss. And after that Karagounis breaking the flow of the game, freezing it in midfield.

Uncoordinated team. Passing the ball where there is nobody to receive it. There was no team worse than this one in this tournament. The commentator was right. Gianakopoulos produced the best piece of football he saw thus far from the Greek team. And that started by his effort, fresh in, giving it the extra inch in that particular moment, facilitating the flow of the game for the Greek team to unfold a substantial attack, that saw four Greek players participating in that attack. A coordinated effort. One of very few.

Just to prove themselves, another Spanish goal right afterwards to make it 2-1 for Spain.

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