Panathinaikos: Resta with Villarreal and Maccabi, but first… Kifissia

A good chance to ensure the qualification and even claim the first place until the end was lost Panathinaikos knowing her defeat by Rennes in Brittany. The “greens” paid for individual mistakes like those of Brignoli and Villena, as a result of which they did not take advantage of the numerical advantage they had for more than an hour of the game against the French team.

Now themore realistic possibilities are those of winning third place leading the Conference League. And that’s because Rennes is now… elusive with 9, Villarreal has 6 and “owes” the home game against Maccabi Haifa (will play it on December 6), while the latter – also with three matches – has one point. Panathinaikos will play his last Europa League card on November 30 at Villarreal, where only with a win it seems that he will have hopes of finishing in the first two places of the group (with substantial chances for the second place). If he doesn’t make it at Madrigal, then he will give a “final” for third place against Maccabi Haifa at the Avenue on December 14, where he will probably settle for a draw.

All this, however, is late, since now the championship comes first. Until the next European challenge there are away matches with Kifissia and Mars. As of today, attention is already focused on Sunday’s match at the stadium of Kaisariani (9:30 p.m.). The “greens” want before the interruption of the national teams to continue their winning streak in order to maintain or even increase +4 from Olympiacos and AEK and +5 from PAOK, while the decision of the Appeals Committee for the derby with Olympiacos that was interrupted. THE Ivan Jovanovich he will make measured changes in the upcoming match, while he cannot count on his services Willian Arao after his unjust expulsion in Lamia. Juancar remains out of the fight, as of course Magnusson and Palmer-Brown.