{"id":347,"date":"2024-11-17T23:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/greece-downs-finland-in-helsinki-and-waits-for-its-march-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T23:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:55:24","slug":"greece-downs-finland-in-helsinki-and-waits-for-its-march-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/greece-downs-finland-in-helsinki-and-waits-for-its-march-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece downs Finland in Helsinki and waits for its March playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1253796\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4461561-320x200.jpg?v=1731872403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4461561.jpg?v=1731872403\" alt=\"Greece downs Finland in Helsinki and waits for its March playoffs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4461561.jpg?v=1731872403\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>Tasos Bakasetas scored Greece&#8217;s opening goal in Finland [Intime].<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Greece beat Finland 2-0 away on Sunday, only to miss out on winning its UEFA Nations League group to England due to its inferior head-to-head record.<\/p>\n<p>The team of manager Ivan Jovanovic has finished the group with 15 games from six matches, having only lost at home to England three days ago. Greece\u2019s results mean it will be in the second pot for next month\u2019s World Cup qualifiers\u2019 draw.<\/p>\n<p>In Helsinki Greece allowed no shots on target to its host, and scored twice early in the second half, to win the game with ease.<\/p>\n<p>First up Kostas Koulierakis fed Tasos Bakasetas in the box and the Greece captain powered the ball home for the opening goal on the 52nd.<\/p>\n<p>Then, four minutes later, Christos Tzolis made the most of a poor clearance by the Finnish keeper to lob the ball over him from 30 meters out and make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>This was Greece\u2019s first ever win in Finland, a month after Greece\u2019s first ever victory over England. On Sunday there was also the debut of the youngest ever Greek international in a competitive game, that of 17-year-old Christos Mouzakitis.<\/p>\n<p>Greece will now wait to learn its opponent in the playoffs for promotion to the top division of the competition. The opponent will be one of the four third-placed teams in the top-division groups, and the playoffs are scheduled for March 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/sports\/1253796\/greece-downs-finland-in-helsinki-and-waits-for-its-march-playoffs\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasos Bakasetas scored Greece&#8217;s opening goal in Finland [Intime]. Greece beat Finland 2-0 away on Sunday, only to miss out on winning its UEFA Nations League group to England due to its inferior head-to-head record. The team of manager Ivan Jovanovic has finished the group with 15 games from six matches, having only lost at &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Greece downs Finland in Helsinki and waits for its March playoffs\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/greece-downs-finland-in-helsinki-and-waits-for-its-march-playoffs\/#more-347\" aria-label=\"Read more about Greece downs Finland in Helsinki and waits for its March playoffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4461561.jpg?v=1731872403","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}