Estonia beats a superior but unlucky Greece through an own goal

A Vassilis Lampropoulos own goal condemned Greece to its third loss in six Nations League games, as Estonia won 1-0 at the Olympic Stadium of Athens on Sunday weathering the strong but fruitless pressure of the Euro 2004 winers.

The Greeks ran into the staunch defending by the Estonians whose physical ability made up for their technical inferiority to the Greeks.

New Greece coach Angelos Anastasiadis fielded an experimental side with nine changes from the starting lineup three days earlier against Finland. The home team showed enough energy on a rainy night, but was clearly missing cohesion. It was therefore left to the individual devices of its players that narrowly failed to produce any goals.

As if missing chance after chance throughout the first half was not enough for Greece, Lampropoulos tried to mark Rauno Sappinen in the box, after a Sergei Zenjov...