Olympiacos: For his honor and his… summer in derbies and until the end

Olympiacos put an emphatic end to its three-game losing streak in the playoffs crushing Volos 5-0 in “G. Karaiskakis”. And the train for the first or second place may have been lost mathematically, but the Piraeus they are motivated for the remaining three league games.

The “red and white” are ahead of them three derbies under difficult conditions: on Wednesday at Opap Arena against AEK, on ​​Sunday empty due to suspension “G. Karaiskakis” against Panathinaikos and next Sunday against PAOK in Toumba.

In these three matches Olympiacos he is called to play for his honor and history. In order not to give rights to anyone to say the… slightest thing, but primarily to win himself and exhaust the chances of him getting the ticket to the Europa League, even if it is not entirely in his hands. Because even if the “red and whites” finish ahead of PAOK in the championship, they will be limited to the Conference League if the Thessalonians win the Cup against AEK.

And participation in Europa or the Conference League makes a big difference for Olympiakosboth in terms of the competitiveness of the organization, revenue and… second chance, as well as in terms of the time the players will have for holidays and the team to “build” on new bases in view of the new season where a lot has to be done to change.

It is noted that the “good” ticketi.e. if Olympiacos finishes third and PAOK does not win the Cup, it will find it in third qualifying round of the Europa League. He will be in action on August 10 and 17 and if he qualifies, he will play in the playoffs on August 24 and 31. If they are eliminated in the third qualifying round of the Europa League, they will be transferred to the Conference League playoffs which will take place on August 24 and 31. If it is eliminated in the Europa League playoffs, it will go directly to the Conference League groups.

On the contrary, if Olympiacos finishes fourth or if they come third and PAOK wins the Cup, the “red and white” will go to Conference League. In this scenario they will take part in the second qualifying round of the Conference League playing on July 27 and August 3. In fact, they will have no room for error, since any elimination, in the second, third qualifiers or in the Conference League playoffs, means the end of their European adventure.