Can some one red pill me on the 2004 euros? Like how did Greece win? A lot of red ball

Can some one red pill me on the 2004 euros? Like how did Greece win? A lot of red ball

No refball. Just luck and dark arts

>red pill
Back to your containment board

busparking and one attempt

We choked.

good defending and setpieces
charisteas biggest aerial threat after corners

Portugal was coached by Mr. 7-1. .

kys

tactics so backwards nobody could deal with it anymore

They killed the game and played like a well oiled machine basically. Then some luck and dark arts.

You better be friendly with us Americans. Russia, America, and uk alliance is about to happen

Catenacchio and alot of luck

literallyeveryone thought about next match while playing them and got a hard wakeup call

Greece revived bus-parking in football which has plagued it ever since.

with heart determination strategy and luck

Fuck Russia

This
Best team in the competition (and in Portuguese history), and playing at home.
And we lost against the greeks.
Twice.
Scolari is a fucking moron

With world class defending and world class corners. And that's that.

p.s. They beat Portugal twice

Cringe.

Rehhagel.

Parked the bus and won every match 1-0.

Same way Poland plays atm. Good defending and lucky goals, though Greece scored most of set pieces

I don't think i have ever been more scared in my football-watching life than i was when we were playing with the czechs at the semi-finals lads.

/thread

Yes, luck played a big part as it usually does in any tournament run. Greece's strategy was
>extremely low risk
>high reward
They'd hardly even try to counter, honestly. Let alone combine or create chances... Like at all.
>sit back, stay compact
>wait for it
>...wait for it...
>somehow earn a corner or free-kick
>score
Every. Fucking. Time.
Greece may not have invented 'parking the bus' strategy, but they executed it to perfection.

Funny thing is, you can hardly call it a fluke
>beat Portugal in the opener
>beat them again in the final
>and in a post-tournament friendly

France was way more impressive tbqh

...

It was the single biggest bus parking in modern history. For some weird reason the only team that actually beat them was fucking Russia.

Portugal was also quite stacked back then senpai.Also checked

the stupid budgetturks killed my pepiks who were playing great football
fuck them

11-12-1968: Greece - Portugal: 4-2
04-05-1968: Portugal - Greece: 2-2
20-01-1982: Greece - Portugal: 2-1
07-01-1987: Portugal - Greece: 1-1
23-01-1991: Greece - Portugal: 3-2
20-11-1991: Portugal - Greece: 1-0
19-02-1997: Greece - Portugal: 0-0
15-11-2003: Portugal - Greece: 1-1
12-06-2004: Portugal - Greece 1-2
04-07-2004: Portugal - Greece 0-1
26-03-2008: Portugal - Greece: 1-2
31-05-2014: Portugal - Greece: 0-0

1 fucking victory in 12 fucking matchs
no fucking excuse, portugal just sucks hard

they played portugal in the final
also they had a goat coach

Very simple, meme magic.

>those triple doubles.
witnessed!

>12 years later and they still mad

Otto RehhaGOAT mastered the art of meme magic

not mad, just plain sad.
and disappointed.

>SCHAUBLE WANTS TO TAX THIS

not mad, I don't mind losing it to you. you guys are good lads.

Don't be sad amigo,history owes you a moment of absolute meme magic for that lost final

why? they were literally the only team we beat fair and square both times.

>revived
Lol, it was never dead. Thank us and the Italians for it. And we're going to keep keeping on parking the fucking bus. Amirite, Italy?

I want us to adopt this 352 meme.
Only position we consistently deliver high quality players is the center of defense anyways

This thread got me thinking, was the '04 final Scolari's demise? I always considered his World Cup win as spoiled rotten luck.
>that 2002 winning Brazil squad
>only a retard could pick a shit lineup from that roster
>earns reputation after winning '02 WC w/ golden gen Brazil
>gets hired to coach a great Portugal squad
>can't win a tournament in their own backyard
>has been hired, sacked, and rehired
>hasn't won anything since

Also, didn't he have a nickname at one point? Big Phil? I feel like he just milked that World Cup win and made a career off it.
>almost forgot he managed Chelsea

>tfw you will never experience 2004 euro with Sup Forums
>you will never witness the shitstorm

Why god.
The only time we actually did something good and won.
It would have been memetastic.

>Best team in the competition
What is the Czech Republic?

LA MANO DE ZEUS

Even our win was more deserved.

Suarez is a fluke. Check our CB's throughout history.
U Greece are BASED.

No, he finished 4th in 2006 and 2014 World Cups. Yeah, 7-1, but still. Also, he was one of the best and most respected coaches in Brazil when he got to manage our NT in 2002. Also, he won a Confed Cup and a Brazil Cup (in charge of Palmeiras) after he left Portugal .