With a picture that was quite reminiscent of the one a week ago against Fenerbahce in Istanbul, a bad Olympiakos was defeated with his hands down (in the second half) by Maccabi and showed many weaknesses.
The coach of the podium records on www.sportfm.gr everything that judged the match…
The 11 most possessions of Maccabi
Numbers may not play a significant role in any case, but they often reflect what generally happened in a match. One way (rebound) or the other way (mistakes), the Israelis were able to have 11 more possessions in the match, which is able to give them this difference they won, even if Olympiacos had performed better, after 27 % on tripods is not representative.
The decisive Zizic and the changes in the screens
The big offensive weapon of Maccabi Tel Aviv tonight was Ande Zizic with 23 points, which the Olympiacos players never really managed to stop in any way. The interesting thing, however, was how Giannis Sfeiropoulos was able to beat the “red and whites” and that was the changes in the screens, with the Israelis winning almost every time they found themselves in this situation. Giorgos Bartzokas’s team did not commit a foul in these cases and paid for it in the worst way.
The scary difference in mistakes
At a glance at the statistics, anyone can see one more element that largely revealed the result and that was the mistakes. Specifically, Olympiacos recorded 15 in Israel, with the hosts having only 4, a difference that says a lot! Even when the Piraeus had the opportunity to reduce the difference and get closer, the effortless mistakes came from everywhere and in the most critical points, with the “work” ending there for the “team of the people”.
The “ah” with the change of image from first to second half
What one can not easily “digest” is that despite the bad performance in the second ten minutes that clearly justifies the final result, Olympiacos in the first half was not bad. He may not have caught any crazy rhythms at all, but he made you believe that even in his bad day he can win such a game. Unfortunately this did not happen.
Fatigue and a clear lack of speed
As we all saw in Polis, so today Olympiakos was “difficult”, both in attack and defense. The coronavirus adventure that has now been completed, seems to have left small problems for Piraeus who stayed days away from training and obviously had a degree of their own, presenting in Tel Aviv a lack of freshness, ideas and energy. Of course, this is a great relief for the Greek team, but something similar applies to Maccabi.
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