Yiannis Skondras of Atromitos and Stelios Malezas of PAOK are the two players Greece coach Fernando Santos called up to the national team on Saturday ahead of the Euro 2012 qualifying game against Georgia on Tuesday.
Central defender Malezas has been invited before by Santos, his former coach at PAOK, but this is the first time Atromitos right-back Skondras will join the full Greece squad, having excelled with the Under-21 team.
With Vassilis Torosidis suffering an injury and Giorgos Samaras, Yiannis Zaradoukas and Avraam Papadopoulos getting suspended after their booking in the game with Croatia, Santos had to resort to last-minute solutions for the match in Tbilisi.
Greece need one point in that game (unless Croatia do not beat Latvia at home), to clinch the top spot of their pool and advance directly to the Euro 2012 finals in Poland and Ukraine.
Georgia coach Temuri Ketsbaia, a former Olympiakos manager and AEK player, warned Georgia will only be aiming at all three points in this last game in the group.
As for the clashes that Croat fans had with police, reports suggested that some 100 hooded men entered the stands next to the Croats and started throwing missiles at them after the start of the game, with the Croats responding. In the clashes that followed one Croat fan reportedly lost a finger.
There were also clashes involving Croat fans in two areas of Piraeus on Friday.
Reports further suggested that former referee Kyros Vassaras was attacked on his way out of the Karaiskakis stadium by fans asking him to respect Olympiakos. He is a member of the Central Referees Committee.
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