Olympiacos-Panathinaikos: Derby of the ages with the top in the background!

Time for… derby, time for THE derby! The battle of the two centuries, the most important game of Greek football takes place in “G. Karaiskakis” for its 8th matchday Stoiximan Super League (19:30, bwinSPORT FM, www.sportfm.gr, Cosmote Sport 1). The prestige is great, as is the rating incentive. Because the Olympic is at the top of the standings with 19 and o Panathinaikos follows with 16.

A couple that we will see in this season, anyway, six times. In addition to the regular season of the championship and the playoffs, the two teams were drawn to compete in the round of 16 of the Novibet Greek Cup. Which means we’re going to… get our fill of derbies for the ages!

The “red and white” count three consecutive victories in the championship, with the last coming in Ioannina against PAS with 3-0. His team Diego Martinez she is 5/5 at home with 18-1 goals, having scored four “fours”, with her image in “G. Karaiskakis” to be more than impressive! It remains to be seen whether the Spanish coach will take a risk with his participation Freirewhile Alexandropoulos also earns points to start as a starter.

In the derbies it has played this year, Olympiacos has a 4-1 home win over Aris and an away draw with AEK (1-1). An assignment was not announced, which means we don’t know if Freire, who has been struggling with an injury problem, will be in or out.

For their part, the “greens” won the postponed match, before the break, with 5-0 Atromitos and are alone in second place. This year they have a draw (2-2 with PAOK) and a defeat (2-1 against AEK) in a derby, which he has given at home and for the first time he is tested in such a big match away from home for the championship.

His team Ivan Jovanovich it has done 3/3 away from home, counting 10-1 goals, while in two of its three games it has scored at least four goals! The squad announced by the Serbian coach does not include the injured Magnusson, Palmer-Brown who continued with treatment, Laszlo Kleinheisler who is suffering from a virus and the suspended Zeka. On the contrary, Aitor is among the chosen ones of the experienced coach!

The mission of Panathinaikos: Brignoli, Lodingin, Xenopoulos, Vaiannidis, Huancar, Ruben, Senkefeld, Ioannidis, Sporar, Bernard, Cerin, Mancini, Tsokai, Jedvai, Aitor, Mladenovic, Kotsiras, Geremegev, Djuricic, Palacios, Vilena, Arao, Verbic.

POSSIBLE ELEVENS:

Olympiacos (Diego Martinez): Paschalakis – Rodinei, Retsos, Doi, Ortega – Ese, Alexandropoulos, Kamara – Fortounis, El Kaabi, Pontense.



Panathinaikos (Ivan Jovanovic): Brignoli – Vagiannidis, Senkefeld, Gedvai, Juancar – Arau, Cerin, Bernard – Palasios, Ioannidis, Mancini.

As far as the refereeing goes, there was quite a bit of midweek drama over EPO/KED’s choice to bring a UEFA 2nd division referee to the derby. The reason for the Italian, Fabio Maresca, with Olympiakos calling for VARista, Marco Piccinini, who was also in last year’s game with AEK in “G. Karaiskakis”, where the “red and white” had many complaints.

Referee: Fabio Maresca

Assistants: Giovanni Bacchini, Valerio Vecchi

Fourth: Efstathios Gortsila

VAR: Marco Piccinini, Vassilis Nikolakakis

DELIVERY (hosted by Olympiakos)

31 NIKES OLYMPIC

24 TIES

13 NIKES PANATHINAICOS

GOAL: 88-61