Panathinaikos-Aris: Last round of applause for the “greens”, for prestige the “yellows”

They are giving their last “performance” tonight (20:00, Cosmote Sport 3, sport-fm.gr, News Bulletin 247) Panathinaikos and Aris, who will compete for the 10th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League playoffs.

The two teams will face each other for the fourth time during the season with the “clover” having three wins in the previous matches. Specifically, in the two matches of the regular season, Ivan Jovanovic’s team prevailed 1-0 in Leoforo with Sporar’s goal in stoppage time, while then they left twice with the victory from Thessaloniki, initially with a score of 2-1 for their 22nd matchday regular time and then with 1-0 for the 2nd game of the playoffs.

The “clover” after the defeat in Faliro by Olympiakos, which also meant the loss of the title, wants to close the season with a victory in order to receive the last applause of the season from the fans at “Apostolos Nikolaidis”. In the standings, Panathinaikos is in 2nd place with 77 points, while it wants to celebrate the second “three points” in the playoffs process as it has only beaten Olympiakos at home.

THE Ivan Jovanovich after last week’s problems with the coronavirus he has all his players at his disposal, while during training he saw Trouige, Frokou and Aitor take part of the programme.

The mission in detail:

Brinioli, Lodigkin, Xenopoulos, Vagiannidis, Houankar, Ruben, Senkefeld, Puchts, Ioannidis, Cleincheisler, Sporars, Bernard, Sanchez, Cherry, Mantzini, Tsoki, Tsokai

On the other side, Aris doesn’t have any special rating motivation either and he goes down to Athens to get a prestigious victory against his evil “demon” this season. The “yellows” after the defeat at home by AEK, remained in 5th place in the standings, counting 50 points having secured the ticket for the qualifiers Conference League next season.

In the competitive part, the coach of the Thessaloniki team, Tolis Terzis, does not face any problems with the sole exception of the injured Brambets, who remained out of the team since he did not manage to overcome the problem of his injury.

The mission in detail:

Cuesta, Ciabanis, Fabiano, Mateo Garcia, Iturbe, Darinda, Palma, A. Camara, Camacho, Ducouret, Gray, Rupp, Piersman, Mazikou, Odubajo, Etembo, Nkulu, Embakata, Christodoulopoulos, Sgouros.

Possible lineups:

Panathinaikos (Ivan Jovanovic): Brignoli-Kotsiras, Senkefeld, Magnusson, Huancar-Kourbelis, Cerin, Bernard-Mancini, Palacios, Sporar

Aris (Tolis Terzis): Cuesta-Odubajo, Fabiano, Piersman, Embakata- Etembo, Darinda, Mateo Garcia- Iturbe, Palba, Camara

Referee: Jealous Athanasios

Assistants: Aptosoglou-Karagizopoulos

VAR: Petros Tsagarakis

4th referee: Tzovaras Georgios

A-VAR: Bauxbaum Reinhardt