Match 19: Greece vs. Nigeria Play-By-Play Thread (R)

71' 2-1 Greece right corner, headed cleared to 25m 6-left -- those two guys knock heads, and both go down. #6 Alexandros Tziolis collects, dribbles centerward to dodge one guy, shoots hard low from top arc center. #1 Enyeama spills the ball, rebounds tantalizingly to 6-top mid-left!! #15 Vasilis Torosidis, lurking onside at 9m (because head-knocked #2 Joseph Yobo is lying on the ground, and can't execute the trap), rushes in and toe-stabs it away from Enyeama's sprawling fingertips, just inside the left post.

 

Both teams striking from distance now.

 

Enyeama must be feeling terribly lonely at this point.

Most of his team has given up the ghost.

 

he couldnt , the ball was low and hit hard not to mention it bounced just right before it came to him

he just made another save , he is still motm for me no matter what

 

I don't see Nigeria beating South Korea.

 

Perhaps we need to think about it bc this experiment hasn't worked for most of them. Nigeria and Cameroon have sucked awfully. Ghana and CIV still have enough talent to overcome.

 

dude is this your first world cup? your comments are very very basic. look the passes, the shots, the determination ... they even go 1 on 1 which I have not seen ONCE pre goal

 

Tactics fail on Nigeria's part. They've basically dragged the Greeks back into the game by shooting themselves in the foot through the red card and their subsequent lack of adaptation.

 

they do seem to have problems in defense and not the best goalkeeper ... but will be nice to see that yes

 

Must resist...

Okay. Thanks

 

They'll lose 4-1

 

And they're still not pressuring the Greeks. Like they haven't been watching the previous 60+ minutes.

 

Hell freezing over comes to mind.

 

Nah - that Dempsey shot had no pace on it and bounced twice before it got there. Green just bollocksed it. This one was hit with pace and swerved before it hit the ground inside the six. Have to say, after all the talk about it, this is the first time I've really seen the camera catch the ball do something weird in this WC.

 

Finally. Time to see him in action.

 

Some of you are underrating Greece dramatically, I'm certain they can get a draw against Argentina.

 

I said it feel more like friendly match for them.

 

Especially considering that I doubt that Tevez will get himself sent off for kicking someone.

 

oddly enough with this result, Greece has just propelled themselves to second place with one tough match left to try and get points from.

Korea is now obligated to defeat Nigeria OR tie them and hope Argentina steamrolls Greece.

Incredible, this Greece is like night and day compared to the Greece that played against Korea...

 

I don't see Greece last line holding off messi, higuain and the likes to be honest ...