23 November, 2013

Player ratings Romania 1, Greece 1.

0-1 23' Kostas Mitroglou (Giorgios Karagounis), 1-1 55' og Vasilios Torosidis. Att: 49.793 (Stadionul Naţional).
Romania: Ciprian Tătăruşanu 6,00 - Dorin Goian 5,80, Vlad Chiricheş 6,30, Răzvan Raţ 5,50 (26' Iasmin Latovlevici 6,00), Alexandru Măţel 5,00, Gabriel Torje 5,20 (56' Marius Niculae 5,50), Cristian Tănase 5,20, Alexandru Maxim 5,40, Ovidiu Hoban 6,20, Bogdan Stancu 5,50 (86' Gheorghe Grozav), Ciprian Marica 5,00. - coach: Victor Piţurcă. = average: 5,58 [failing

Greece: Orestis Karnezis 6,00 - Vasilios Torosidis 5,80 (72' Loukas Vyntra), Sokratis Papastathopoulos 6,80, Ioannis Maniatis 6,00, José Holebas 7,20, Alexandros Tziolis 6,30, Dimitrios Siovas 6,60 (80' Kostas Manolas), Giorgios Karagounis 6,80 (73' Andreas Samaris), Georgios Samaras 6,20, Dimitrios Salpingidis 5,20, Kostas Mitroglou 6,20. - coach: Fernando Santos. = average: 6,28 [good]
Sports journalist Bengt Grive was born in 1921, so he had actually seen most of the great Swedish players in his professional life. Grive wrote in his book Glitter och Stänk (1989):

"Kurre Hamrin was a dribbler and opportunist but his big 'number' was the nutmeg. But there is no way he could compare to i Torbjörn and his feints. He didn't have the Göteborgers action range his shot was not remarkable in comparison. Gunnar Gren was techincally at the same level as Nilsson, but slower: Gren's footwork was somewhat heavy. Gunnar Nordahl easily beats Torbjörn in terms of shooting power, but hardly in anything else.  Ralf Edström was better in acrobacy, but not on the floor. His vision was a excellent as Torbjörn's, but he lacked pace. Nacka Skoglund's dribbling ability was more spectacular and he was as quick, but his shot was clearly inferiour and his defensive work was not impressive."

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