OFI-Aris: A tough outing against an established opponent

An interesting match will be held at 19:30 where OFI will host Aris, for the 23rd matchday of the championship (sportfm.gr, bwinSPORT FM, Cosmote) at “Gedi Koule”.

The previous matchday o OFI scored “four” in Lamia (1-4) and is in 10th place with 23 points. So far in the league it counts 5 wins, 8 draws and 9 losses. Valdas Dabrauskas’ side have shown incredible improvement in recent games and regardless of the result, the work put into the team shows in every match. Neira and Diamantis are out of the mission, as is the punished Pasalidis, as well as Apostolakis, Theodosoulakis.

The mission: Mandas, Christogeorgos, Larson, Marinakis, Torarinson, Balogiannis, Vouros, Giannoulis, Diuce, Yohou, Perea, Meyado, Bakits, Toral, Tsilianidis, Bifuma, Mosquera, Felipe, Groning, Diko, Tzu.

On the other hand, Mr Mars he is not going through a good month and for this reason the “yellows” proceeded to remove Alan Pardew. In fact, his place was taken by Tolis Terzis, who is expected to finish the season as the coach of Thessaloniki. Last weekend Aris suffered a defeat at “Cleanthis Vikelidis” by Panathinaikos (1-2), in a match where the hosts took an early lead but the “clover” reacted and turned the match around. They are yet to secure the top six, so they need to find two wins in their last four games to… lock it up, while also looking to close the gap on the fifth Volos.

Brambetz and Etembo joined the squad, finally, which is made up of: Cuesta, Ciabani, Brambetz, Iturbe, Mateo Garcia, Darinda, Camara, Luis Palma, Camacho, Rupp, Ducouret, Gray, Etebo, Piersman, Dabo, Maziku, Nkulu, Odubajo, Embakata, Christodoulopoulos.

Possible lineups

OFI: Mandas, Vouros, Diamantis, Pasalidis, Larson, Meyado, Duce, Thorarinson, Bakits, Toral, Groning.

Mars: Cuesta, Odubajo, Brambetz, Nkulu, Piersman, Dabo, Darinda, Iturbe, Palma, Christodoulopoulos, Kamara.

Referee: Karantonis

Assistants: V. Mousiadis, Diamantis

Fourth: Chetsilas

VAR: Tsakalides, Kollias