Northern Ireland beaten by Greece in Belfast as Nations League woes continue
Northern Ireland’s wait for a Nations League victory goes on after their （選挙などの）運動をする began with yet another dispiriting result as Ian Baraclough’s 味方する were beaten 1-0 at home by Greece.
にもかかわらず the best 成果／努力s of another sell-out （人が）群がる at Windsor Park, Northern Ireland were too flat for too long, only raising their game when two 34-year-olds ? Kyle Lafferty and Niall McGinn ? （機の）カム off the （法廷の）裁判 to chase a result in the final half an hour.
But they could find no answer to Tasos Bakasetas’ 39th-minute strike for the 訪問者s as Gus Poyet took victory in his first 競争の激しい game in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of Greece.
It means Northern Ireland are still without a 勝利，勝つ after 11 試みる／企てるs in the Nations League, while Baraclough has only one victory in the same number of fixtures at Windsor Park in all 競争s.
On Wednesday the 経営者／支配人 had 始める，決める his 味方する a points 的 of 12 for their four fixtures this month, but this is a result that leaves Northern Ireland already 直面するing an 上りの／困難な 仕事 in their goal of 昇進／宣伝 out of League C.
Baraclough’s 前任者 Michael O’Neill was in the stands to watch his first Northern Ireland match in person since leaving for Stoke, no 疑問 hoping for a repeat of those famous nights when his 味方する （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Greece home and away on their way to Euro 2016, but this was very different fare.
A flat first half was 大部分は passing without 出来事/事件 until Greece made the 打開 six minutes before the interval.
米，稲 小道／航路, making his 競争の激しい debut, was unable to 削減（する） out a long ball 今後 and Dimitrios Limnios played it inside for Bakasetas to 攻撃する，衝突する a low 運動 beyond Bailey Peacock-Farrell into the corner.
Greece had been trying that ball 今後 since the start, but more often than not saw it drift out of play. Their only other chance up to that point had been a 深い Limnios cross to Celtic striker Giorgos Giakoumakis, who 長，率いるd tamely at Peacock-Farrell.
Two minutes earlier Northern Ireland’s only chance had come and gone, Gavin Whyte turning neatly to make space on the 辛勝する／優位 of the area but unable to 生成する enough 力／強力にする to 実験（する） Odisseas Vlachodimos.
Greece might have 追加するd a second just before the break as Kostas Tsimikas got the better of his Liverpool team-mate Conor Bradley in a 戦う／戦い that 激怒（する）d for much of the night on Northern Ireland’s 権利.
The hosts were 控訴，上告ing for a foul but Tsimikas strode 今後, playing in Lazaros Rota, who 炎d over to the 失望／欲求不満 of Giakoumakis, who was を待つing the cross in 前線 of goal.
The 訪問者s really should have been two ahead six minutes into the second half as Limnios sent in a low cross that just 避けるd the out-stretched boot of Giakoumakis ? the 27-year-old who was in such hot form for Celtic but who could not 追加する to his 単独の international strike.
Baraclough turned to Lafferty ? 支援する in the squad for the first time since September ? and McGinn as he switched to a 4-5-1 形式 just after the hour.
Northern Ireland turned up the intensity, pumping balls 今後, but 本物の chances were few and far between. The best of them was a McGinn 発射 which was comfortable for Vlachodimos, while Lafferty 小衝突d the roof of the 逮捕する with a curling 解放する／自由な-kick.
There was a debut for Manchester City’s Shea Charles as Baraclough made a flurry of changes 長，率いるing into the final 10 minutes, but 非，不，無 made the difference he sought as the final whistle was 迎える／歓迎するd with boos.
