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Friday night Bosnia and Greece play Zenica in a qualifying league of vital importance to each other. Who can do good business for the World Cup in Russia?
Bosnia & Herzegovina :
With five games played we are in the middle of the qualifying series: Belgium is first with 13 points out of 5 games, Greece follows 11, while Bosnia and Herzegovina has collected 10 points. The remaining three countries Cyprus, Estonia and Gibraltar are the weak brothers in the group and already disabled for World Cup participation.
Trainer Mehmed Bazdarevic thus knows what his men are doing: in a win, Greece is second to second place, a place entitling to participation in the play-offs. In defeat it will be very difficult for the Bosnians, which means that either Belgium must be defeated, or Greece has to swallow in one of the weak brothers in this group.
The previous meeting, in November last year in Piraeus, between both teams resulted in a hot fight: after 90 minutes, 12 yellow and 2 red cards scored 1-1 on the scoreboard. The Greek equalizer only fell in the 95th minute.
The Bosnian hope will be located at Edin Dzeko, who at the previous meeting was one of the red card recipients. AS Roma’s goalkeeper already scored 43 (!) Hits in all competitions this season. He will be flanked by Vedad Ibisevic from Hertha BSC. Additionally, the attack on Miralem Pjanic’s strike passes, and you soon come to the conclusion that the weakness in Bosnia is not at the forefront.
Against Belgium (4-0 defeat) it became painfully clear that the backside is not top level, certainly not now Sead Kolasinac (suspension) and Emir Spahic (stopped) are not there. The selection is therefore a place for Eredivisie players Dario Dumic (NEC) and Samir Memisevic (FC Groningen), but I do not expect them to come into action.
Probable arrangement Bosnia and Herzegovina
Begovic, Sunjic, Bicaccic, Cocalic, Zukanovic, Visca, Pjanic, Cimirot, Lulic, Dzeko, Ibisevic
Greece :
At the end of 2015, Greek football did not seem to be able to sink deeper: in the qualifying series for the EC in France, Greece ended last in its group, for example, the Faroe Islands, Finland and Romania. In the first subsequent training match, 1-0 lost Luxembourg. This disastrous series took Claudio Ranieri (who subsequently became a champion of the Premier League at Leicester City) and Sergio Makarian headed.
However, in 2016 the Greeks knew the tide. For example, the Orange team defeated Eindhoven with 1-2 in the final of September, and in the current group it only has to give priority to Belgium, despite the fact that the Belgians managed to keep 1-1 in the qualifying league.
Friday night, the team of coach Michael Skibbe can hand out a direct competitor. At win in Zenica, the Greeks make an important step towards at least second place. However, the Greeks will take the defensive statements and be more than satisfied with a point. Playing at zero is also possible with the current selection in which to find the best players in the back yard. For example, Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Borussia Dortmund) and Vasilis Torosidis (Bologna) will make up 162 Netherlands, while Kostas Manolas (AS Roma) and Kostas Stafyllidis (FC Augsburg) are likely to staff the back positions.
The rest of the selection includes, at Benedictine’s Kostas Mitroglou striker, no more names played by renowned European clubs. Therefore, little attacking impulses can be expected from the Greeks.
Probable arrangement Greece
Karnezis, Stafyllidis, Papastathopoulous, Torosidis, Manolas, Tziolis, Maniatis, Fortounis, Zeca, Mantalos, Mitroglou
Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Greece head to head matches
13.11.16 WC Greece Bosnia & Herzegovina 1 : 1
22.03.13 WC Bosnia & Herzegovina Greece 3 : 1
12.10.12 WC Greece Bosnia & Herzegovina 0 : 0
10.08.11 FI Bosnia & Herzegovina Greece 0 : 0
13.10.07 EUR Greece Bosnia & Herzegovina 3 : 2