After the World Cup Play-Off draws, this was the one game I pictured quickly in mind. Especially this one at Greece’ venue; under and a possible draw written all over it. Well, nothing happened to change my mind since then. Both teams have the same players and same mentality.

Greece have a football mentality relies on defence and they do it perfectly when necessary. We all know it pretty well from Euro 2004. They will play with the same kind of mentality as Rehhagel sounds like he will try a 5-4-1 (or a flexible 3-6-1) tactics on the pitch. The team has experienced players as well as some above average forwarders but as always, they lack creativity in the midfield.

Ukraine on the ther hand look like a compact team with a very solid defence, a good goalkeeper and pretty much options in the midfield and attacking line. If to compare; they have more quality than the Greeks.Consistency and the balance they have will cause many troubles to Greeks even they master the defence.

So, Ukraine in this match-up are the better team. Greeks will try to keep the clean sheet and look to put away a goal likely from a set-piece. Their mentality rely on keeping it slow and find a way to score while the opponent sleeps but Ukraine is well aware of that and unlikely to fall into that trap like many teams did earlier.

I expect a low scoring game like many, under looks highly possible but I will go for a result prediction here.

Prediction
Ukraine | X2 Double Chance
Extras
Goals | Under 2,5

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