Panathinaikos broke the “block” of PAS and overtook him in the top four

THE Panathinaikos defeated him too PAS Giannina with 2-0, in the context of the 15th game of the Super League, at “Apostolos Nikolaidis” today.

Making his .. their head and scoring twice in 15 minutes, with them Mauritius and Sanchez in the 54’ and to 69’, the hosts broke the series of four defeats by their opponent and at the same time confirmed that they are in good spirits!

This was the fourth victory in the last five matches for Panathinaikos, who was promoted to fourth place of the ranking in the championship and wants to complete 2021 by qualifying for the Cup against Volos…

On the contrary, “Ajax of Epirus”, which was unlucky at 0-0 with its direct foul Σαλιακα to find in beam in 43 ‘, but. lucky that Tzilos did not blame foul-dismissal in the 24th minute, suffered a second consecutive defeat.

In the… minds of coaches:

Panathinaikos lined up with a system 4-3-3 and Brinoli under the goalposts. Sanchez, Veleth, Senkefeld – who returned as a key player after seven months – and Juankar were the four in defense, while Ruben Perez, Mauricio and Vigiafanies played on the axis. With Aitor and Palacios fighting at the ends and Carlitos at the top of the attack.

PAS Giannina on the other hand “came down” having as its formation the 4-4-2, Lodigin at home and Saliakas, Pantelakis, Karga and Pirsman at the back. While Karachalios and Dominguez were the “cutters”, Gardavski and Snyder played at both ends of the midfield and Perea-Milinceanou composed the attacking duo.

The match:

Panathinaikos immediately took the initiative of the moves, taking possession, turning the ball correctly and with patience, but without becoming threatening in the opponent’s area.

At the same time, PAS did not seem to be upset by the fact that it had a passive role, preferring to have its lines close and wait for a quick counterattack to “hit”.

All this resulted in a tough match, but also not to see final efforts in front of the two hosts.

While the decision of the referee Tzilos not to charge even a foul against the already “yellowed” Saliakas, who overthrew Palasios when he left the counterattack in the 24th minute, left the Epirotes with 11 players on the field and gave them the opportunity to serve the plan. with the same consistency.

Seeing his team’s inability to transform its superiority into something more substantial, Ivan Jovanovic asked Aitor and Palacios to change sides at half-time.

However, the only thing that the “greens” won until halftime was some corners, with their “combinations” in the executions not yielding the desired result for them …

In fact, they could have gone to the locker room and back to the score, but the left vertical bar of Brinioli’s hearth – which remained a “statue” in the execution of Saliakas in the 43rd minute – saved the 0-1!

In the replay, the tension remained at high levels, with Pereas even falling to the ground twice and in the meantime he had risen to play in a counterattack of his team, but the Panathinaikos players did not take the ball off the field.

However, in the second case, PAS θηκε was punished, after playing with ten players, it also conceded the goal that was to change the data…

When Vigiafanies passed an excellent vertical in the “back” of the guests ‘defense, with Juankar taking a precise cross on the second crossbar and Mauricio scoring with a header, for 1-0 in 54’!

Panathinaikos continued to be in control, continued to play with patience and with Juankar again “in front” made two more good phases.

The first was left unfinished, thanks to the timely intervention of Dominguez in the 58th, while in the second Mauricio’s shot in the 66th minute, was missed.

Finally, the “clover” was rewarded for its good image with a second goal, in 69 ‘, thanks to the “recommended” foul of Biogiafanies and the fake head of Sanchez, who scored his first goal with Panathinaikos and made it 2 -0!

Then, the pace dropped, with PAS coming to terms with the idea of ​​defeat and Panathinaikos making a management in view of the Cup matches in Volos, next Thursday.

Even so, Sanchez was close to scoring again in the 85th minute, with his head from a Schκεnkfeld pass, but Lodigin blocked.

MVP: Lucas Vigiafanies is everywhere again. It immobilizes the defense of PAS with the vertical in the first goal of Mauricio, while it serves directly the second to Sanchez! At the same time, the Argentine midfielder helped equally in the blocking part, holding his position and showing a willingness to score, with his well-known passion.

The “whistle”: Referee Tzilos soaked them σήμερα today, especially in the disciplinary control. The culmination, of course, is the non-dismissal of Saliakas, while at the same time he has been given yellow cards to Vigiafanies, Veleth, with Pereas also having to be dismissed in the end. It allowed hard play and certainly not to play better football.

The compositions of the two groups:

Panathinaikos (Ivan Jovanovic): Brinoli, Sanchez, Senkefeld, Veleth, Juancar, Mauricio (90 ‘Alexandropoulos), Ruben Pereth, Vigiafanies, Aitor (67’ Makenda), Carlitos (67 ‘Vital), Palacios (81’ Hatzigiovanis).

They stayed on the bench: Dioudis, Kotsiras, Sarlia, Lundqvist, Ioannidis.

PAS Giannina (Iraklis Metaxas): Lodigin, Saliakas, Pantelakis, Kargas, Pirsman, Gardavski (73 ‘Brenner), Karahalios, Dominguez, Snyder, Perea (76’ Moreira), Milinceanou (86 ‘Liasos).

They stayed on the bench: Soulis, Siontis, Triadis A., Triadis P., Lolis, Mina.

Referee: Athanasios Tzilos.

Referee assistants: Chrysoula Kourombilia, Iordanis Dimitriadis.

4th referee: Evangelos Manouchos.

Referee VAR: Mario Melero.

Referee AVAR: Vassilios Nikolakakis.

See here the description of the match from Match Center