AEK-Aris: “Union” for the top, Thessaloniki for the reaction

In OPAP Arena and to AEK-Aris eyes are turned on Sunday afternoon (29/1, 19:30), to the most important game of the 20th round of the Stoiximan Super League (Cosmote Sport 1 HD, News Bulletin 247 and sport-fm.gr).

“Union” comes from three consecutive victories in the championship, with the last dramatic “double” (1-2) on it Ionian (Zuber’s winning goal in stoppage time). A result which – combined with the defeat (0-3) of Panathinaikos by PAOK – brought it to the -1 from the “green” pioneers (45b.), while it is also in +5 from PAOK and Olympic.

So, in case his team Matias Almeida prevail over Thessaloniki – making it 11/11 in its new stadium – then it will be found even temporarily at the top of the standings (the “clover” is hosted on Monday by Asteras Tripoli). Midweek, the “yellow and black” completed the… job on Panserraikos, winning 3-1 in Serres and thus with a total score of 6-1 they qualified to semi-finals of the Greek Cupwhere they will face Olympiakos who eliminated Aris.

On the other hand, the visitors last weekend returned to positive results, winning 3-0 of Volos in “Kl. Vikelidis”, with Manu Garcia to score a hat-trick. However, a few days later the Spanish midfielder was unlucky as he suffered a partial cruciate ligament tear in the home leg against Olympiakos. Game where the “yellows” had the phases, but were defeated 1-0 (third time in a row in eleven days, in the league and Cup, losing by the same score to Piraeus) and were excluded from the institution. So now Alan Pardew’s set looking for the reaction through the league, where he is at 5th place with 31 points.

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It should be noted that – due to the relevant statements of Matias Almeidas – PAE AEK once again drew the attention of its fans to everything that has to do with lighting smoke generators.

In the competitive part, AEK meters significant returns. First of all, its top scorer, Levi Garciabut of course also his Niklas Eliasson. The Swedish midfielder was included in the squad for the first time since November 6, when he suffered a fibula fracture in the away match against Asteras Tripoli. From then on, as expected, the wounded were left out Paolo Fernandez and Milad Mohammadi.

On the contrary, guests have many absences. Except that Manu Garciathe unprepared were also left out Stick in, Inside, Arch, Camacho, Palm, as well as Hairovics, Marmaridis, Karakasidis. Happily for Pardew, the Odubajo and Dumbo.

Possible compositions:



AEK (Matias Almeida): Athanasiadis – Rota, Vida, Mukudi, Hadjisafi – Amrabad, Shimanski, Jonson, Pineda – Garcia, Araujo.

Ares (Alan Pardew): Cuesta – Odubajo, Fabiano, Brumbetz, Piersman – Etembo, Doukoure, Darinda – Mateo Garcia, Gray, Iturbe.

Referee: Luis Godinho (Portugal)

A’ assistant: Rui Teixeira (Portugal)

Second assistant: Pedro Mota (Portugal)

4th referee: Petros Tsagarakis (Chania)

VAR: Andre Narciso (Portugal)

In the game of the first round, AEK had performed excellent performance in “Kl. Vikelides”taking the “double” (0-2) with the ends of Shimansky (28′) and Garcia (50′).

It is recalled that the Thessalonians formed the last opponent of AEK in “Nikos Goumas”, where the OPAP Arena now dominates. Specifically, on May 3, 2003 the “yellow and black” had reached a wide prevalence (4-0). The goals were scored by Kostas Katsouranis (13′), Vassilis Lakis (30′, 45′) and Ilia Ivics (77′).

In general, AEK has a clear superiority in its matches with Thessaloniki:

61 meetings:

42 AEK wins

14 ties

5 victories of Mars

GOAL: 127-43

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