Crucial is for Apollon Smyrnis and Aris tonight’s match in Rizoupoli for the 18th game of Super League 1 (19:30, Cosmote Sport 2, BwinΣΠΟΡ FM 94,6 and sport-fm.gr). The hosts are struggling to break away from the last position of the standings, while the team from Thessaloniki is approaching the top six.
Apollon plays the third game at home after the change of time. He got a point from Olympiakos, but he could not avoid the defeat by OFI (in the debut of Marco Grote). It is seven games without a win, after the only one in the championship against PAS Giannina.
Aris, after the postponement of the match with Atromitos at “Kleanthis Vikelidis”, is playing away again, after the defeat by Panathinaikos. A defeat that kept him in seventh place in the standings. He has a point in the last three away games, the one he got in Heraklion, while he lost the other two.
Tradition
They play for the 80th time in their history in the big category and for the 40th time with Apollon at home. In the championship, both teams had a continuous presence with ambiguous games until 2000, when Apollon fell and their meetings have since been reduced. They were also found in 2013-14 in the Super League, in the 2nd division once, in 2016-17, and from 2018 they are together again in the Super League. Apollon got a draw at “Kleanthis Vikelidis” in the first round, after Aris had won all four previous ones in the category. The Athens team had won both games of the 2013-14 season.
The compositions
Apollo: Verhulst, Baxevanidis, Toutouarima, Lisgaras, Alves, Fation, Slivka, Gianniotas, Pamlidis, Ioannidis, Signevic.
Mars: Cuesta, Sudgren, Ghana, Fabiano, Brabets, Jego, Sasha, Entiage, Bertolio, Gama, Mancini.
The referees
The match was appointed to be chaired by Mr. Karantonis, with the help of Mr. Kostaras, Papadakis and 4th Koumbarakis. In the VAR will be Messrs. Zampalas and Fotopoulos.
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