Last act in his groups Europa League! Olympiacos and Batska Topola will face each other at 22:00 at “Georgios Karaiskakis”, with the Piraeus needing win or draw to finish third and go to European Conference League.
A match that will be the only European match of a Greek team to be held in camera following the government’s decision, following the repeated incidents of violence.
The “red and white” turned a new page with his removal Diego Martinez and his arrival Carlos Carvalhal in the technical leadership, after the heavy 5-0 from Freiburg and the Portuguese technician will make his debut in a pivotal match. In the championship, Olympiacos comes from a 2-2 draw in Volos and on Monday he will face him Panseraic Away.
“We are ready, it is a very important match. We have the intelligence to understand our strengths and what has gone right so far to exploit them. We had time to work because we didn’t play in the league, but it’s also a disadvantage that there isn’t a benchmark match to go before. We respect Topola, they are a strong team, the draw serves us, but with all due respect to the opponent, we have prepared the team to win”he initially told the Press conference and then he was asked about whether the Piraeus have a disadvantage that they will play the match behind closed doors: “There is no downside. Whoever wears the Olympiakos shirt must play to the maximum”.
Amount, Freire the problems of Olympiakos for the match in question, while o Pontense is available, as is o Joveticwith the former putting forward a candidacy to be in the initial Piraeus squad, leaving out Masura. In general, big changes from Carvalhal they will not exist and could not exist in so few days.
On the other hand, Batska Topola came a draw 0-0 with the Radnitsky for the Serbian league and is in 3rd place with 33 points. It is a team that is better away from home and either threatens or scores a lot through set pieces. He only wants victory to steal from him Olympic the 3rd place and to continue its European course in the knockouts of the Conference League, because it will prevail in the tie after the teams’ 2-2 in their first match.
On Wednesday, there was a publication of her Mozart Sport which stated that the Serbian team is very annoyed with this decision, sending a letter to UEFAwhich was requested to allow entry to 130 of her friends, otherwise he would not have come down to play in Karaiskakis, however the latest report by Kostas Nikolakopoulos states that the match will take place as normal. In fact, it is not confirmed that Serbian fans have traveled to our country.
Possible lineups:
Olympic: Paschalakis – Rodinei, Retsos, Doi, Ortega – Ese, Mandi – Fortounis, Masouras, Pontense – El Kaabi.
Backa Topola: Ilic – Padovic, Antonic, Krstic, Chalusic, Petrovic – Kuvelic, Radin, Sos – Milovanovic, Jovanovic.
The referee will be Marten Krogh from Denmark.
Source: Sport Fm
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