OFI-Olympiakos: A dangerous exit for the Piraeus in the “castle” of the Cretans

It is tested at its headquarters OFI The Olympic.

Cretans host (21:30, Cosmotesport1, bwinSPORT 94.6, sport-fm.gr) the Piraeus in “Yendi Koule” in the match that closes the schedule of the 9th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League.

The guests they want to follow up the good results, after a 2-1 win over West Ham in “G. Karaiskakis” for the 3rd matchday of the Europa League, which was combined with a very good performance. In the championship, they come from the episodic derby with Panathinaikos in Faliro, which was interrupted and continues in the courtrooms due to the firecracker that fell. With the “red and white” to be punished in the first instance by zeroing and -1, while they now hope that they will be vindicated through the appeal they will file. With this punishment, Piraeus fell from the first place where Panathinaikos climbed.

THE 5th in the OFI rating he will fight for the best possible result and he has shown this year that he does better against strong opponents. After having made 3/3 against -in order- Aris (3-2), PAOK (1-0) and AEK (2-0) this season, facing the specific teams in his field. Valdas Dabrauskas’ team comes from a 0-0 draw at the home of Kifissia, while in their last five matches they have three more draws, with Lamia (2-2), Atromito (1-1) and Panaitoliko (1-1). In between he bent the Union.

From the side of Piraeus Fortounis and Rodinei, who left the match with the English team due to injuries they received, were out of action. Keaney is therefore expected to play on the right and it is open to who will take the 31-year-old ace’s place. He does not intend to do an extended rotation 42 year old technician and it remains to be seen if he will maintain the shape with the three central midfielders. He may not have opted for it from the outset in any domestic match, but the same was true for Europe ahead of Thursday’s clash, when he was white-faced by the formation in question. In addition, OFI’s strength is its strong center and with this it recently “disarmed” AEK.

As far as they are concerned Heraklionites, there is no question mark on the formation that the Lithuanian coach will choose, as he is expected to line up his team with a back three and a full midfield. Megiados and Pasalidis were made available, but not Christogeorgos, who followed part of the program on Sunday, while Theodosoulakis, Koutentakis, Apostolakis, Simantirakis and Kalafatis are also out.

OFI’s mission: Bowman, Sotiriou, Larson, Pasalidis, Marinakis, Vouros, Karo, Giannoulis, Torarinson, Lambropoulos, Abada, Gayegos, Neira, Toral, Riera, Meyado, Glaser, Bakics, Diko, Felipe, Mosquera

The mission of Olympiakos: Paschalakis, Tzolakis, Papadoudis, Ortega, Kini, Porozo, Retsos, Doi, Mandi Kamara, Scarpa, Alexandropoulos, Vrousai, Carvalho, Biel, Ese, Podense, Brnitz, Solbaken, El Kaabi, El Arabi, Masouras and Jovetic.

OFI (Valdas Dabrauskas): Bowman – Vouros, Pasalidis, Karo – Larson, Glazer, Meyado, Torarinson, Gayegos – Bakics, Felipe

Olympiacos (Diego Martinez): Paschalakis – Kini, Retsos, Porosso, Ortega – Ese, Kamara, Alexandropoulos – Podense, Solbakken, El Kaabi

Referee: Aristotle Diamantopoulos (Arkadias)

Assistants: Konstantinos Psarris (Zante), Andreas Meidanas (Achaia)

4th Referee: Konstantinos Katikos (Athens)

VAR: Konstantinos Perrakis, AVAR: Andreas Fotopoulos (Athens)