AEK-Panathinaikos: Top derby with “good evening” in the playoffs!

Top Athenian derby with… good evening!

The premiere of the Stoiximan Super League playoffs includes a meeting between AEK and Panathinaikos, with the two teams facing off on Sunday night (19/3, 21:30) at OPAP Arena.

The game will be televised by Cosmote Sport 1 HDradioed by News Bulletin 247while there will be live updates from sport-fm.gr.

A derby that is of great interest and which – although it is too early to determine a champion – can shape important data. Panathinaikos is the one that comes down to defend its points lead, having finished the regular season at the top of the table with 61 points. “Clover” is found in +2 from the “Union”, at +5 from Olympiakos and to +7 from PAOK, in this wonderful race that is being held this year in the domestic League.

On the one hand, therefore, AEK is called upon to make use of its headquarters and, on the one hand, to return to the top, on the other hand, to show an immediate reaction after the defeat (1-3) at OPAP Arena by Olympic in the finale of the regular season, its first in its new stadium after 14/14 winning results in league and Cup. At the same time, the “yellow and black” will seek to reach victory, in order to dedicate it to the memory of the great Mimi Papaioannou, who passed away. On the other hand, Panathinaikos, who last match dominated in Peristeri by winning 2-0 of Fearless with two goals from Ioannidis, he will go down to New Philadelphia to play his game, with the first goal of the “three points” but also to defend his points difference. The next matchday (after the break for the nationals), on April 2, the “yellow and black” will be hosted by PAOK in Toumba, while the “green” will welcome Volos.

As far as the competitive part is concerned, firstly for AEK, Matias Almeida finally included in the team both Garcia as well as him Mukudi (with the former, of course, being considered almost unlikely to start as a starter), who have faced problems in the past few days, while the Galanopoulos. Instead, the punished one was left out Vida as well as the injured Knife.

In the guest camp, Panathinaikos will line up without him Sporar. The Slovenian attacker, even on Friday (17/3) was part of the team program, so there is optimism about his participation in the derby, he was not included in the team. As expected, the wounded man is also absent from it Sarliawhile he returns Bernard after the surgery he did to treat colic in the kidney and also o Schenkefeld who served his punishment. Except of course the long-term absentees Aitor, Ganea and Trouillet.

Possible compositions:

AEK (Matias Almeida): Athanasiadis – Rota, Mitoglou, Mukudi, Hadjisafi – Amrabad, Jonson, Pineda, Gatsinovic – Zuber, Araujo.

Panathinaikos (Ivan Jovanovic): Brignoli – Kotsiras, Senkefelend, Magnusson, Huancar – Kourbelis, Pereth, Tserin – Palasios, Ioannidis, Mancini.

It is recalled that during the regular season each team prevailed at home, with Panathinaikos winning 2-1 at Leoforo and AEK 1-0 at the OPAP Arena.

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Referee: Nikola Dabanovic (Montenegro)

First Assistant: Vladan Todorovic (Montenegro)

Second Assistant: Jovanovic Srdan (Montenegro)

4th referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Dodecanese)

VAR: Bruno Esteves (Portugal)

AVAR: Andreas Meidanas (Achaia)

In 71 meetings between the two teams with AEK as host:

30 AEK wins

18 ties

23 Panathinaikos wins

GOAL: 82-74

The deceased Mimi Papaioannou and the Antonis Antoniadis and Harry Grammos with four goals they are in first place among the scorers in the AEK-Panathinaikos matches. Of the active footballers, o Sergio Araujo he has three goals in the Athenian derby with the “two-headed” home team.