Greece vs Kazakhstan Match Analysis and Prediction

Greece vs Kazakhstan Match Analysis & Prediction

Greece

21/03/2024 10:45 pm

Kazakhstan

by Vincent

10 months ago 0 120

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Greece will be looking to scarpe into the Euro 2024 qualifying playoff final by claiming victory over Kazakhstan at OPAP Arena in Athens on Thursday night.

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Ethniki are unused to losing at home as their record of 14 wins, five draws and just two defeats in the last five years indicates, but Kazakhstan have proven themselves to be very hard to crack on the road in the last couple of qualifying campaigns and can get on the scoresheet at OPAP Arena.

Magomed Adiyev’s side finished fourth in Group H on the same number of points as Finland, but they beate the Finns in Helsinki and Northern Ireland in Belfast.

Greece’s home record suggests this is a step up, but the Hawks gave Denmark a good game in a 3-1 away defeat and were four minutes away from earning a 1-1 draw with Slovenia.

Both nations are ranked much higher than Kazakhstan, whose top club side have a better Uefa coefficient than all but two of Greece’s top-flight clubs.

The standard of football in the gas and oil-rich nation has come on so much over the last few years that they may soon be regarded as favourites for a game against Greece, who have flatlined in football terms over the past few years.

However, Greece will probably get the result they need because they have a couple of in-form goalscorers – Fotis Ioannidis and Giorgios Giakoumakis.

Ioannidis, who scored in November’s 2-2 home draw with France, has netted five in his last three appearances for Panathinaikos, while Giakoumakis has struck four times in his last two games for Atlanta United.

Greece vs. Kazakhstan Head to head

Greece have won each of the three previous matches between these two teams, scoring seven goals while conceding two.

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1

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2

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0

Greece

2

Friendlies
21/03/2024

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Euros Qualifiers

Greece Team News

Forwards Giorgos Masouras, Fotis Ioannidis, Vangelis Pavlidis, Tasos Chatzigiovanis and Giorgos Giakoumakis will be available for selection for Greece on Thursday.

The squad will also consist of defenders Panagiotis Retsos, Konstantinos Koulierakis, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Lazaros Rota, Pantelis Hatzidiakos, Dimitrios Goutas and Dimitris Giannoulis.

Greece's Last 5 Matches

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16/10/2023

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Netherlands

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17/11/2023

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Friendlies
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Kazakhstan Team News

Kazakhstan will have forwards Ivan Sviridov, Maxim Samorodov, Lev Skvortsov and Abat Aimbetov in the matchday squad on Thursday.

Defenders Sergei Malyy, Nuraly Alip, Marat Bystrov, Alibek Kassym, Yan Vorogovskiy, Timur Dosmagambetov, Abzal Beysebekov, Alexandr Marochkin and Temirlan Yerlanov will be available for selection.