Olympiacos-AEK: “Yellow and black” super advantage, “red and white” loyalty

Olympiacos vs AEKact 2.

The people of Piraeus welcome the Union at “G. Karaiskakis” (20:00, Cosmote Sport1, News Bulletin 247, sport-fm.gr) in the rematch of the two teams for the semi-finals of the Novibet Cup, with the guests having a super lead from 3-0 of the match at Opap Arena. It is reminded that from this year the regulation of away goals does not apply in our countries either.

The “red and white” come from the draw 0-0 in Saturday’s derby (25/2) with Panathinaikos at the same stadium for its 24th matchday Stoiximan Super League, which, however, was accompanied by good looks. Olympiacos is called upon to climb a… mountain due to the defeat in the first match, from which it must learn from the… countless mistakes it made, which it paid dearly for. The Piraeus side will be aiming to give their best to turn things around as they look for their first derby win of the season. After drawing 0-0 with the “yellow and black” in the championship in Faliro, they have two draws with Panathinaikos (1-1 at Leoforos, 0-0 at “G. Karaiskakis”) and one defeat with PAOK (1-2 at Faliro ) and one draw (0-0 in Toumba).

The preparation of Olympiakos ended unexpectedly, since apart from Hames, Mitchell will not have Embila available either, as he was knocked out due to an ankle injury. As is known, Papastathopoulos does not have the right to participate due to his suspension in the derby with Panathinaikos, while Cisse, G. Rodriguez and Retsos.

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AEK, which prevailed in the championship 2-0 away from Asteras Tripoli in the “Opap Arena”, is the big favorite to qualify for the final of the Novibet Cup, having won the first match 3-0, with the two goals of Levi Garcia (3′, 90’+13′ pen. ), who will miss the second leg due to injury and the own goal by Samasekos (27′). A guide for the Union is the performance he made at the same stadium for the championship last November despite a 0-0 draw. Matias Almeida is expected to make an approach similar to the first match, since he is going to recruit several players from the so-called reserves.

The injured Leviathan, Mohammadi, Van Weert, Fernandes, as well as the young midfielder, Macheiras, who trained normally on Tuesday, are out. Matias Almeida took with him 25 players and is expected to make 7-9 changes to the starting line-up, going to a recipe… OPAP Arena.

The mission of Olympiakos: Androutsos, Ba, Bakabou, Boutoutsi, Kanos, Chrysopoulos, El Arabi, Fortounis, Inbom Huang, Kasami, Christianson, Masouras, Doi, Reabciuk, Paschalakis, Biel, Ramon, Rodiney, Samasekou, Tzolakis, Valbuena, Vrousai.

The mission of AEK: Stankovic, Athanasiadis, Theocharis, Mukudi, Rota, Vida, Mitoglou, Hadjisafi, Sidibe, Tzavellas, Radonia, Daiko, Simanski, Jonson, Gatsinovich, Pineda, Franson, Mandalos, Galanopoulos, Amrabat, Tzumber, Araouho, Eliasson, Kosidis, Machiras.

Possible lineups

Olympiacos (Mitchell): Tzolakis – Rodinei, Doi, Ba, Ramon – Samaseku, Huang – Biel, Fortunis, Masouras – Bakabou

AEK (Matias Almeida): Stankovic – Sidibe, Mitoglou, Tzavellas, Hadjisafi – Simanski, Eliasson, Mandalos, Gacinovic – Araujo, Zuber

Referee: Aguilar Agayev (Azerbaijan)

Assistants: Zeinal Zeinalov, Akif Amiral (Azerbaijan)

4th: John Papadopoulos

VAR: Yeltsin Masiyev, Konstantinos Psarris