National team of Greece will receive on Friday night at home representativity visit Cyprus in a match scheduled to be played on Georgios Karaiskaki stadium. The game, which will begin at 21:45, will count for ranking the group H, which also includes Bosnia, Belgium, Gibraltar and Estonia.
Greece
Taken over last year by selector Michael Skibbe after a European Championship qualifying campaign in 2016 extremely modest Greek national will hope for much better results and involvement in the fight for a place at the tournament in Russia.
The debut was positive, with a win, but against a representative of a low level, Gibraltar, before which Greece won 4-1 through goals scored by Mitroglou, Fortounis, and an own goal Torosidis’s Wiseman, all in the first 45 minutes of play.
German national team selector Greek or will not have available the young striker Dimitrios Diamantakos, injured in training camp club team.
Probable team: Karnezis, Torosidis, Papastathopoulos, Tzavellas, Manolas, Maniatis, mandala, Samaris, Fortounis, Mitroglou, Bakasetas
Cyprus
In the first match of the group received the home visit national team that starts with the status of favorite for direct qualification, Belgium and national coached by Christakis Christoforou was seen surpassed by the more powerful or opponent, was defeated eventually score 3-0.
The midfielder from Larisa, Andreas Avraam and his Panionios defender Marios Antoniades, will be the most important absent Georgios Karaiskaki stadium to travel to duel with Greece.
Probable team: Panayi, Dossa Junior Laifis Laban Ephraim, Demetriou, Kyriakou, Alexandrou, Charalambidis, Soteriou, Kastan
direct meetings
The two teams met most recently nearly a decade ago, on 19 May 2008, in a friendly match played at the arena Pampeloponnisiako and won 2-0 elena representative.
