Albania 2 Greece 0?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Jari Litmanen]

What??? How can the grreks loose to Albania... I mean Finland took an easy win over Albania (they are complete crap.) From what I've seen of group 9 (was it?) here are my final predictions..
1. Germany ( sorry to say.. )
2. Finland
3. England
4. Albania
5. Greece
Oh and congrats to Portugal for the win !

 

[f]

we will see alot of surprices my friend. i mean greece is a much better side but albania surpriced them.

 

[PANATHINAIKOS]

relax my friend.This is my list¨:
1.Germany
2.England
3.Greece
4.Filand
5.Albania

 

[Jari Litmanen]

Look you bloody twat if you think that Finland is gonna end up below Greece then you must be on streoids... we will do our best to win the whole group ctaching Germany will be hard.... It's good night to Albania and Greece

 

[Liverpoolfc]

I'm with you jari that finland will finish on top of both albania and greece and that germany will take top spot but I think that it's gonna be a big battle between England and Finland for 2nd spot in the group. I too was suprised that albania beat greece 2-0 I thought that greece would easly win but it looks like anythings posible in this group.

*** LIVERPOOL F.C & SAMI HYYPIA RULES ***

 

[Jari Litmanen]

When Greece lost to Albania it really came out as a shock to me as I believed Greece to be serious contenders... just goes to show anything can happen but also shows that Greece has a poor squad otherwise they wouldn't go loosing to Albania!?? But on paper Greece isn't an interesting team and they don't hold any big name stars.

 

[Jari Litmanen]

For panathinaikos :
1. Germany
2. England/Finland
3. either of the above (2.)
4. Greece
5. Albania

This contains no bias and is formulated according to the results so far... I really don't think Greece has a chance to end up above Finland.. Otherwise I would literally kill myself... no just kiddin'

 

[Luc Nilis]

hmmm...
i dont know...
Finland isn't that great team...
The only way they can qualify is because England isn't doing very good, and also Germany is "recovering" (how do you spell it?) after a dissapointing EK.
i wish the team the best luck, but i've got my doubts about them...

 

[Jari Litmanen]

Well I take you're a belgian when your name is Luc Nilis.. well your team lost to us the last time we played in Belgium. I think we have a lot of chances to qualify to the World Cup our football has gone light yrs ahead from what is was 4 or 5 yrs ago..
I wish Belgium the best of luck in the qualifiers

 

[fredericofb]

who cares abou greece and albania?!?! they are both crap teams...

 

[Luc Nilis]

your right they arent that kind big of teams, but you cant underestamate (did i spell it right?) such teams.
Because the underdog has a much chance as the favourite...

 

[Jari Litmanen]

Yeah well both greece and albania may surprise in our group but will hardly end up above England, Finland or Germany because they don't have the players to do so... compare theirs to what Finland, England, Germany have :
ENGLAND :
Andy Cole
Teddy Sheringham
Owen (number one scorer in premiership)
FINLAND :
Sami Hyypiä (second best defender in premiership)
Jonatan Johansson (second best scorer in premiership)
Jari Litmanen (needs no introduction used to be all-time best scorer in Champions League and was voted third best player in the world in 95)
Germany :
Olivier Bierhoff (ac milan ace)
Ziege (Liverpool ace)
list goes on
Albania and Greece :
players?!?!?

 

[PANATHINAIKOS]

I dont believe that Greece is a big team. I saw the game Greece-Finland and I realised that Finland is a very-very slow team.How old is Litmanen?You dont know Mahlas?He plays in Ajax and he was top scorer in Europe (1999).You dont know Dabizas?You dont know Tsartas? Your drivers are much better than your soccer players. Bye my friend.

 

[Jari Litmanen]

Yeah I know but you can't compare a player like Mahlas to Litmanen, Hyypiä or Johansson.. you just don't have players like that. But your club teams are great...
As I said I'm pretty sure we will make easy work of you when you arrive to Helsinki... hehe
Yeah we have the best motor sports individuals ever in Rally we have won eight times iun a row now.... In Formula one two yrs in a row it was gonna be three until that schumi came in... he deserved it tho..
We also had the greatest motorbike legend ever Jarno Saarinen (Jarno Trulli, f1 driver named after Saarinen) ... Saarinen invented going down in the turns in motorbiking... he always won.. he invented modern day motorbiking....
I know Mahlas well as I'm a big AJAX fan and I also know Dabizas but they aren't BIG name players... like I said one of our junior squad players starts for AJAX Petri Pasanen and he is superb !



[This message has been edited by Jari Litmanen (edited 10-14-2000).]

 

[Chris16]

HELLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

GREECE HAD 7 *STARTING* PLAYERS INJURED VS Albania!!!!!!!!!

Take out of Finland Litemanen, and 6 other starters (I don't know anyone else) put them in a hostile inviroment and where are they??? They would also lose.

At the beginning of this I saw England,Greece and Finland ALL as equal. With the way Finland has been playing (BARELY A 2-1 Win over Albania don't try to hide it.) Losing to us 1-0 (You guys played very poor and only created 1 chance) and then drawing England at HOME with no Beckham,Owen so on... They have showed me nothing.

U still have to play GERMANY 2 GAMES (U will lose both). England AWAY and Albania AWAY. Finland is screwed!!!

Greece on the other hand has 3 STRAIGHT HOME GAMES, And will get ALL 7 injured players back. We weren't even close to 100% vs Albania. Even 2 back-ups were injured!!!

Machlas-Ajax
Tsartas
Dabizas-Newcastle
GEORGATOS-PLAYED WITH INTER!!! WAS VOTED TOP 5 DEFENDERS IN SERIE A!!!
ELEFTHEROPOULOS-VOTED BEST GK IN THE 98' CL!!!

You never heard of these players?? I'm not saying their the ebst in the world, but their not unheard of.

Oh by the way they were ALL INJURED VS ALBANIA!!! So were Amanatidis (who shut Finland down in Athens),Goumas and Antzas!

Greece is gonna place higher than Finland no doubt about it. It's England i'm worried about...


PS Here is how the satndings is gonna look:

Germany-20 pts
Greece/England-11pts
Finland-7 pts
Albania-4pts

Germany will crush this group, Finland will fall apart, and Greece/England will fight for 2nd.

 

[BodyCruncher]

1. Germany
2. England
3. Finland
4. Greece
5. Albania

I'm sorry to say it but i think the Germans will win the group. England + Finland will be very close!

 

[Giovanni7]

My dear friend Jari Litmanen you are either totally clueless or VERY one-sided!You cant claim that Finland has better players than Greece!Or that the Finnish team will easily beat Greece!I saw your team in Athens where the real score should be 5-1 or 6-1!Also in the game against Albania 7 players where missing and 4 of them where basic defenders!However in the first half Greece should have scored 3 goals but due to bad luck didnt.Also you should know that Greece is thought by Albanians as an enemy as many live here in harsh terms so they were trying to their best to beat us. As for the players:
FINLAND:Litmanen,Hyypia....
GREECE:Limperopoulos(wanted by Man.U. and other teams)
Choutos(Just came to Olympiakos from Roma)
Georgatos(2nd best left back in the world after R.Carlos)
Tsartas(became a god in Sevilla)
Machlas(kicks ass-first scorer in Europe 1 year ago)
Dabizas(Great defender in Newcastle)
So you see who has better players...However I also think Greece wont go well not because it has no good players or team but because the players have no motivation no feelings for the team.If they did I think Greece would pass the Group because Germany and England are awfull wright now.Finland and Albania are just lower teams....What can we do?

 

[Jari Litmanen]

Everyone who is saying we'll end up below Greece are greek ppl... hmmm no wonder you're saying greece cause it's your home country.. But I'm know to be fair and trust me your players are not that well known...
Oh and who gives a shite about some serie A, it's the english premiership which is worth watching !
As I said Finland will end up above greece.
If you would follow footy you'd know half of the finnish team. Scandinavian Football is very high at the moment. Oh and about us playing slow. That may be true but we are very physical and technical.
Bodycrunchers post was the best. I think we will end up probably third but we are here to win and we'll never give up.

Oh so what you're saying is that your players match up to Litmanen, Sami Hyypiä and Jonatan Johansson.
If you tell a fan of english footy that Dabizas is better than Hyypiä he'd laugh at you mate. Litmanen is an ajax legend. Johansson is the SECOND best scorer in the premiership (England).... if you didn't know what I meant!
Look don't deny it you don't have the material... but it's a different thing when you talk of the whole team. For ezample Russia they don't have a great base of players but they play superbly as a whole..


[This message has been edited by Jari Litmanen (edited 10-15-2000).]

 

[Jari Litmanen]

Oh god Giovanni you had to list all those players.. I onlyt listed the best
ok here we go :
Litmanen (Barcelona)
Johansson (Charlton)
Hyypiä (Liverpool)
Antti Niemi (Heart of Midlothian)
Jussi Jääkseläinen (Bolton)
Joonas Kolkka (PSV Eindhoven)
Teemu Tainio (Auxerre)
Petri Pasanen (Ajax)
Valakari (Derby)
Rekola (Dortmund)
Sjölund (West Ham)
Forssell (Chelsea/Crystal Palace)
Mika Nurmela (Herenveen)
Jarkko Wiss (Stockport)
Numela (QPR)
god dammit want more.... quit your whinnin'
Your don't have the same players we have.... There is no disputing here .... We are better in footy and it's our fifth favourite sport whilst it's your first.... =)



[This message has been edited by Jari Litmanen (edited 10-15-2000).]

 

[Chris16]

LOL,

No wonder u like the EPL, thats where are your players are!

Not only that, but they are from Sh*t teams like Everton!!!!!!!

Hey, I wonder why all your players are in a foriegn league...BECAUSE YOUR LEAGUE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

It's about as good as the Slovenian! HAHA!

All I have to say about your "great" Finland NT is

1-0
1-0
1-0
1-0
1-0
1-0
1-0!!!

Thats ALL I have to say. A fact is a fact WE BEAT U!!! And without 4 starters (Machlas,Tsartas,Dabizas,Eleftheropoulos)

PS Serie A is 10x better than the EPL...