OFI-PAS Ioannina: Battle with the goal of returning to positive results

OFI and PAS Ioannina cross swords in “Jedi Koule” (17:30) for its 11th matchday Stoiximan Super League.

The Cretans are in seventh place of the scoreboard and they come from the away defeat against Panserraikos (2-1), while ignoring the victory for more than a month, when they were imposed by AEK 2-0, getting a great result.

The Cretans completed their preparation for the match, with Nikos Christogeorgos to return to the mission. The Marko Bakic and Jon Toral, instead, they continued treatment and stayed out, as did the injured Yannis Theodosoulakis, the international Dan Glaser, the punished Leroy Abada and Andreas Karo and Manuel Kalafatis.

Her 20 member mission OFI, in which Ilias Simantirakis was included for the first time (in a championship match), consists of: Christogeorgos, Sotiriou, Bauman, Larson, Pasalidis, Marinakis, Vouros, Giannoulis, Thorarinson, Lambropoulos, Simantirakis, Gayegos, Neira, Riera, Meyados , Apostolakis, Koutentakis, Diko, Felipe, Mosquera.

On the other hand, Gianniotes are in the last place of the standings, together with Panaitolikos and Volos and they ignore the victory from the first matchday of the championship, when they beat Kifissia 3-0. Since then, there have been three draws and six defeats and he will go to Heraklion to get something out of the game, on the one hand to climb the rankings, on the other hand for psychological reasons.

As for the injury problems, there was another last-minute loss for Ajax of Epirus, with Pedro Conte, who came to be added to those already absent Leo and Eford!

The competitive “headaches”, however, do not end there for PAS, since Rodrigo Eramuspe he is extremely doubtful with his participation in the match against the Cretan team will be decided at the last minute.

After the end of yesterday’s training, Thanasis Staikos announced the team which consists of the following football players: Kleiman, Athanasiou, Soulis, Eramouspe, Pantelakis, Bakadimas, Kiakos, Tsoushis, Soria, Panagou, Bortagarai, Karachalios, Rienstra, Liassos, Lolis, Gino, Tzimas, Balan, Pamlidis, Rosero and Garo.

Possible lineups:

OFI: Bauman, Vouros, Pasalidis, Lambropoulos, Marinakis, Meyado, Gagegos, Thorarinson, Riera, Neira, Diko.

PAS Ioannina: Kleiman, Soria, Pantelakis, Bakadimas, Tsoushis, Rosero, Karachalios, Rienstra, Kiakos, Pamlidis, Conte.

Referee: Dude

Assistants: Spyropoulos, Economou

4th: Andrianus

VAR: Polychronis, Psarris