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In… the minds of the coaches:
With her classic 4-4-1-1 lined her up AEK The Matias Almeida and Cican Stankovic under the rafters. Right back Sidibe, left Hajisafi, with the central duo in defense consisting of Vida and Mukudi. Szymanski and Pineda in the central midfield duo, with Amrabat taking the right side and Gacinovic the left. Twins in attack, as with PAS, Mandalos and Tzumber. In total, four changes in relation to Yannen (Amrabad, Rota, Mukudi and Hadjisafi instead of Eliasson, Sidibe, Cullens and Mohammadi, respectively). Garcia, Jonsson, and Galanopoulos, who is suffering from a virus, were left out of the mission.
In the “camp” of the guests, o Roberto De Jerbi keep it 4-2-3-1 (essentially 4-4-1-1), with Ferbruchen at home. The defense, from right to left, consisted of Feltman, Dunk, Igor and Hinselhud. The midfield duo of Gilmour and Gross, with Antigras on the right edge of midfield, Mitoma on the left and Ferguson next to the sole promotion, Joao Pedro.
The match:
The game started at a very good pace and with AEK it pushes too high. However, in the first minutes the “Union” also presented lack of concentration in the rear. That’s where his reflexes came into play Stankovic both in tete-a-tete with him Ferguson (2′) as well as in its wrong rotation Vida (7′).
“Union” started to circulate the ball and after the danger passed with him Opposite (10′), began to create one opportunity after another.
Two first threats with Pinedaoriginally with a one-piece out-of-range shooter (13′) and then (17′) with a header from the height of the box, with the ball gaining height allowing Verbruchen to block.
AEK continued to press for the goal, but a minute later (18′) the English goalkeeper had answers to both his shot Gacinovic within the area as well as at the end of it Pineda who got the “rebound”. Quite active, the Serbian midfielder, who had a new opportunity in 21′.
The “yellow and black” were also pressing they recovered the ball in key places. In such a case, at 30′ The Latch cut, passed to Cumberwhose shot was deflected with difficulty into a corner by Ferbruchen, while in 35′ his drift shot Pineda after a nice “bassimo” of him, he went out.
At the same time, AEK was controlling the situation behind, with the world of the team also playing ball with deafening noise in the defensive phase.
To reach the crescendo of opportunity at 44′: Steal by Szymanski, counter attack, o Cumber steps area and executes, with the ball jerking it beam. In the throw-in, he cannot score from close range Gacinovic who may have been surprised. In the development of the phase, a great opportunity again with Zuber!
A siege by AEK in the first half that ended without a goal for the “Union”!
The two teams started without changes in the second half and with AEK once again showing an aggressive attitude.
It created, didn’t, a huge opportunity in 52′. Rota brought Mandalos into the opposition with a deep ball, with the Greek midfielder making an exemplary turn at the height of the large area, where the Gacinovic caught a one-piece shot, with Ferbruchen to parry with one hand.
And yet, against the flow of the match, Brighton found the goal. In 53′ after marking him ShimanskyThe Pedro fell to the ground. Initially, Scherer indicated “you are playing”, but he was asked to see the phase in the VAR where he found the violation that actually existed. The execution was undertaken by the Brazilian forward himself, who sent the ball to the right, with Stankovic falling on the other side and the visitors thus taking the lead in the 55′.
An unexpected image-based development for AEK. And things, while in the next ten minutes he could not find the answer, became even worse for the “two-headed” in the 65th minute with Gacinovic to be expelled in a completely unsuspected phase! The Serbian midfielder, being in the Brighton area and in his attempt to receive the ball, clumsily stepped on Feltman facing the second yellow.
AEK, therefore, was now called upon to react with ten players, with Matias Almeida replacing Araujo, Ponce and Eliasson in the 72nd minute instead of Mandalou, Tzumber and Amrabat, respectively.
A huge missed opportunity inside two minutes for each team, with Stankovic to put a terrible “stop” in the tete-a-tete with him Ferguson in 73′ and in the “caps” (74′) him Pineda to miss with a diagonal shot inside the area, in a phase with great conditions.
Even though AEK played with ten men, they had closed Brighton in their frames and were pushing for an equaliser. One real soul depositwith the “yellow and black” losing a great opportunity in 90′ with his head Vida from Eliasson’s cross!
The compositions of the two teams:
AEK (Matias Almeida): Stankovic – Rota, Vida, Mukudi, Hadjisafi – Amrabad, Simanski, Pineda, Gacinovic – Zuber, Mandalos.
Brighton (Roberto De Gerbi): Fehrbrucken – Feltman, Dunk, Igor, Hinselhud – Gilmour, Gross – Antigra, Ferguson, Mitoma – Joao Pedro.
Referee: Sandro Scherer (Switzerland)
First Assistant: Bekim Chogai (Switzerland)
Second Assistant: Jonas Erni (Switzerland)
4th referee: Johannes von Mandach (Switzerland)
VAR: Lukas Fedrich (Switzerland), Lionel Chudi (Switzerland)
Source: Sport Fm
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