[Sports] England 1-2 Greece: Vangelis Pavlidis' double stuns Wembley and dents Lee Carsley's hopes of becoming manager

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Lee Carsley's honeymoon period as England interim manager came to a crashing halt as a Vangelis Pavlidis double gave Greece a deserved 2-1 Nations League win at Wembley.

Carsley had appeared a shoo-in for the job ahead of kick-off, but his experimental England line-up and the disjointed performance which followed will raise more questions than answers as they fell to FIFA's 48th-ranked side.

Pavlidis slotted Greece ahead five minutes into the second half after dancing past a number of England players, but the visitors almost led much earlier when it needed an acrobatic goal-line clearance from Levi Colwill to deny Tasos Bakasetas.

 

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The visitors saw three more goals denied by narrow offside calls, indicative of England's open and often porous defence, while a late scramble leading to Pavlidis' 94th-minute winner was typical of their evening - and nothing less than Greece deserved.

 

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