With Ensaliva and Salpingidis: Three wins in a group match after 16 years for Greece

Panathinaikos, AEK and PAOK entered the Europa & Conference League group stage on the right foot, with their victories giving a huge boost to the Greece in terms of the UEFA rating.

So that no one can find the last time that at least three Greek teams won in the same matchday in the group stage, he has to go back to 2007!

At that time, our country had six (!) clubs in Europe, with Olympiacos entering its groups Champions League and Panathinaikos, AEK, Ari, Panionio and AEL to participate in UEFA Cup.

So, at the beginning of December, the 5th matchday of the group stage of the second tier European interclub competition was held, with the “greens” winning 2-0 (70′, 74′ Salpingidis) in Lokomotiv Moscowthe Union to bend with 1-0 (46′ Ensaliva) the Mladá Boleslav and the “blue and red” to beat Vienna 1-0 (90′ Maistorovic), where they had beaten the Austria.

Aris, for its part, was tied 1-1 with Braga at home, while AEL had a day off. It was the early days of groups in UEFA, with five teams in each group and four single matches, with the final matchday taking place on 5-6 December, while the Champions League was held a few days earlier.

So on November 28, Olympiacos won 2-1 Lazio, therefore if we take it based on the competition, the Greek victories were four! If we go based on the last match, then again Piraeus’ 3-0 win over her Werder Bremen on December 11th he brings us to the four Greek hits.

It is recalled that then three teams continued after the holidays in the knockouts (Olympiakos, Panathinaikos, AEK), something that has happened since then and which we hope will happen again this year, even better and with four representatives!