Greece maintained their perfect record in Group F of the UEFA Under-21 Championship as they defeated Malta 5-0 at the Municipal Stadium of Livadia on Friday.

Konstantinos Gkoumas put the hosts ahead on 16 minutes with a low shot which beat goalkeeper James Sissons when served by Kostoulas. Seven minutes later, Georgios Koutsias, served by Allen, headed home to double the score. 

Four minutes in the second half, Dimitrios Kaloskamis received an assist by Koutsias before beating the Malta goalkeeper. Just past the hour, Tristan Viviani was adjudged to have fouled Georgios Koutsias inside the area and from the penalty area, the same player made no mistake. Georgios Koutsias completed his hat-trick with a diagonal shot from the right which beat Sissons eleven minutes from time.

Malta will be in action once again on Tuesday, facing Georgia away from home.

Photo courtesy of Malta FA

GREECE Nikolaos Botis, Athanasios Koutsogoulas, Noah James Allen, Alexios Kalogeropoulos, Christos Alexiou (46’ Konstantinos Kostoulas), Konstantinos Gkoumas (72’ Ioannis Apostolakis), Georgios Koutsias (82’ Dimitris Rallis), Dimitrios Kaloskamis (62’ Adriano Bregou), Christos Almyras, Dimitrios Chatsidis (62’ Panagiotis Tsantilas), Charalampos Kostoulas.

MALTA James Sissons, Kean Scicluna, Mattias Ellul, Sven Xerri, Andy Borg, Brooklyn Borg (86’ Kaiden Fenech), Nicholas Agius, Tristan Viviani (84’ Nikita Shchepetkin), Jake Micallef (69’ Lucas Caruana), Shaisen Attard (69’ Joshua Pitts), Kai Bartolo (83’ Nathan Cross). 

Referee: Cláudio Pereira POR

Assistant referees: Pedro Ribeiro, Pedro Martins POR

Fourth official: Fabio Verissimo POR