Greek national team faced the extremely fast Colombia, but it made important defensive mistakes that cost Greece three goals and a defeat which hampers its efforts to pass to the next phase of the World Cup.
Colombia did not win so easily as the score shows and Greek team was the one who had the control of the match and enjoyed greater possession of the ball. However Greece did not manage to score.
Colombia scored very early at 5’ with Armero disorganizing the Greek team which wasted almost 20 minutes trying to recover.
Greek players took control of the game for 45 minutes but their development remained slow while Colombians were aggressive and made many counterattacks.
Gutierrez scored for Colombia at 58’ whereas Greece missed many opportunities to score with Kone pressuring David Ospina.
Greece was trying to find its rhythm and could have scored. But, Colombia scored once again with Rodriguez at 93’.
The match ended with Colombia winning and Greece thinking of its next match now with Japan on June 19.
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