Our national team suffered a 2-1 loss to Montenegro, despite taking the lead with Marcus Edwards’ first goal for our national team.
After the match, national team coach Akis Mantzios, highlighted the individual and team mistakes made during the match, which ultimately prevented the national team from coming away with a positive result.
Now, attention turns to Latvia. The national team held a training session on Saturday morning (September 26) and then headed to the airport, bound for Latvia, where on Monday (September 28, 7:00 p.m.) they will face the Latvian national team in the second match of Group B of League C of the Nations League.
Our national team’s delegation is departing now, and upon arrival in Latvia, preparations for the second match will effectively begin.
The correspondent for Alpha Cyprus and AlphaNews.Live, Giorgos Kyzas, is traveling with our national team and is reporting on everything happening around the squad. With continuous updates, he captures the mood within the team, the events leading up to the match against Montenegro, and all the latest news leading up to the game against Latvia on Monday (September 28, 7:00 p.m.).
On Sunday (September 27), Akis Mantzios’s regular press conference is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., while the national team’s final training session before the match will take place at 6:00 p.m.
The national team coach has 27 players at his disposal. Sielis is not on the roster, while Konstantinos Laifis’s participation in Monday’s game will depend on his condition and how he performs in the final practice, though the odds are currently not in his favor.
The roster in detail: Andreas Paraskevas, Fabiano Freitas, Joel Mol, Neophytos Michael, Andreas Siikkis, Nicolas Tsaroulla, Evagoras Antoniou, Konstantinos Laifis, Konstantinos Sotiriou, Leonidas Konomis, Nikolas Panagiotou, Giorgos Malekkidis, Andreas Christou, Kostas Pileas, Kostakis Artymatas, Hector Kyprianou, Charalambos Kyriakou, Panagiotis Andreou, Ioannis Kostis, Gregoris Kastanos, Stavros Georgiou, Angelos Neophytou, Andronikos Kakoullis, Marcus Edwards, Loizos Loizou, Ioannis Pittas, Marinos Tzionis.