He performed his best this year and celebrated a great victory with 2-0 Levadeiakos against OFI!
The Boeotians showed a very good game face and punished the defensive mistakes of their opponents, taking a two-goal lead with own goal by Diamantis (21′) and his goal Nika (27′), while they created opportunities to score other goals.
On the other hand, OFI appeared below the occasion in Livadeia, having large percentages of possession, but without being able to create many opportunities in front of the Cretans’ frames.
So, Levadeiakos won after 10 consecutive unsuccessful attempts in the championship and reached 17 points, catching Lamia in 13th place, while OFI stayed at 26 and 9th place in the standings.
In the mind of the coaches
With 5-3-2 lined up the hosts o Yannis Petrakis, who did not have at his disposal (apart from the long-term absentees) Vrakas, Lua Lua and Sako. Groff started under the posts, Liagas was the right back-half, Panagiotou was the left and Vinicius, Tsapras and Paz were the three stoppers. Hamon and Mejia were on the axis and Nikan was moving in front of them and behind the attacking duo of Sahpekidis and Gianniota.
A system with three stoppers (3-5-2) was also chosen by Valdas Dabrauskas, who did not count on the services of Vouros, Meyados, Neira, Felipe, Griva and Sifakis. Mandas was chosen as goalkeeper, with Diamantis, Pasalidis and Thorarinson as a trio in front of him. Larsson was the right half-back, Bifuma the left, while Bakic, Duce and Toral were the three in the central area. Diko and Mosquera formed the offensive duo of the Cretans.
The match
The game started with Leviathan to come in more… hungry, pressing high and creating problems in the defense of OFI, losing his first chance in the 8th minute, when after a wrong pass by Duce, Gianniotas entered the wide area and made the turn from the left, but o Sahpekidis couldn’t find the ball with projection.
In the 18th minute, the visitors lost him Toralwho felt discomfort in the hamstring of his left leg and was replaced by Pereas, while Levadeiakos opened the scoring in the 21st minute, when Chapras found space from the right and made a very good cross, with Diamond to send the ball into his team’s net in an attempt to head it away.
THE OFI tried to respond immediately, but his long shot under pressure Bakits ended up high out, while in the 27th minute the home team “struck” again, with Gianniota to steal a misplaced pass from Larsson and cross from the left, before o Nikas thrown into the path of the ball “writing” the 2-0. This was just the first time in this year’s league that Levadeiakos scored two goals in the first half.
In 32′, Gianniotas crossed with a free kick and Nikas made contact with the ball, but Mandas blocked with over-intensity, while in 36′, the ball ended up in Pereas after Thorarinson’s cross. By his means OFI to shoot hard on the body of his teammate, Diko. In the 39th minute, Levadeiakos launched a perfect counterattack, with Sahpekidis making the run and “serving” to Gianniota, but the latter failed to defeat Mandas from a very advantageous position. In the 45th minute Duce caught a long shot, which went just wide of his right post Groff.
In the 49th minute, Petrakis’ team threatened again, with Gianniotas getting a header after a cross from Sahpekidis and the ball going against Pasalidis. Players and friends of Levadeakos asked for a penalty for handball, Sidiropoulos and VAR showed “you’re playing”. In the 51st minute Gianniotas committed a foul from a good position, just above the crossbar, while in the 58th minute Larsson committed a foul at the second post, but the Perea he failed to send the ball into the goal.
In the 63rd OFI missed a great chance to get back into the match, but Groff impressively saved Bakic’s foul shot, while in the 67th minute Nikas went one-on-one with Mandas after a counter-attack, but shot weakly past the Cretan goalkeeper.
The visitors had possession for the remainder of the match, but lacked imagination in their play and were unable to threaten Groff’s goal. Yes, O Levadian he was the one who could score a third goal in the last minutes of the match, with Dumcio to shoot high out and Mandas to block his shot Geremegev.
MVP: THE Nikas he had a connecting role between the midfield and the attacking line of Levadeakou, managing to make his presence more than noticeable, until the 72nd minute when he was replaced by his coach. He scored for 2-0 in the 27th minute, missed and had some more good chances to be anointed scorer again. Gianniotas and Sahpekidis were also very active for the winners.
The… whistle: Tasos Sidiropoulos refereed without many problems, who in consultation with the VAR showed “you are playing” in a penalty called for by the home team in the 49th minute.
The compositions of the groups
Levadeiakos (Petrakis, 5-3-2): Groff – Tsapras, Vinicius, Liagas, Paz, Panagiotou – Hammond, Mejia (66′ Belmont), Nikas (72′ Doumtsios) – Giannotas (80′ Geremegev), Sahpekidis (80′ Skvarka).
On the counter: Stojanovich, Dentakis, Tzimopoulos, Symelidis.
OFI (Dabrauskas, 5-3-2): Mandas – Larson, Diamantis, Pasalidis, Thorarinson, Bifuma (57′ Tsilianidis) – Duce, Bakits, Toral (19′ Perea) – Diko (80′ Tzu), Mosquera (57′ Groning).
On the counter: Christogeorgos, Yohou, Marinakis, Giannoulis, Balogiannis.
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