Panathinaikos: Thoughts on 3-4-3 ahead of Slavia Prague

4-3-3 may seem like the dominant system with which o Ivan Jovanovich is oriented to line up Panathinaikos in the matches with Slavia, but a surprise cannot be ruled out.

This surprise is none other than a system with three central defenders, which can provide some elements to the greens that may prove to be “key” in their difficult matches with the Czechs.

As Tasos Nikologiannis reported last night on News Bulletin 247, the possibility that Ivan Jovanovic will -eventually- choose the 3-4-3 cannot be ruled out. This is a possibility – a thought that has been born from the study of the Panathinaikos coach on his opponent in his first matches this year in Europe.

The clover technician has studied the Slavia matches a lot and has found that her biggest problem is when she is called upon to “break” a defensive line which is well organized. Then the Czechs face big problems, which is proven by the fact that the games they came to last year scrap for the players of Slavia it was when they were facing teams that were waiting in their area and closing the spaces.

Having established this fact, Jovanovic, the chances of presenting Panathinaikos with the 3-4-3 are now greater. Especially since the defense will possibly have them Schenkefeld, Kourbelis and Magnusson which can be a “granite” defense for the trefoil, but at the same time they have the characteristics that will be able to help in the circulation of the ball, and the organization of counterattacks from the defense.

THE Ivan Jovanovich will slowly begin to break down to his players everything he knows about Slavia, having after the coming weekend also an image of their first league match of the year against an opponent clearly superior to St. Joseph’s from Gibraltar whom and faced on the 21st of the month away from home.

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