THE Panathinaikos met with defeat… shock from Fearlesswith 3-2at the municipal stadium of Peristeri, as part of the 14th matchday of this year’s Stoiximan Super League.
As in… continuation of the match against Maccabi Haifa, the “clover” not only did not react today but instead repeated the tragic mistakes at the backby Brignoli also make another bad performance, causing him to fall from the top of the leaderboard!
His penalty Ioannidis in the 38′ was anything but foreboding for what followed, which found the western suburbs side equalizing in first-half stoppage time with the display of Ender.
To follow his head Vergo and the 2-1 at 50′as well as his very nice dig Roubaix in the 64th minute with which the impressive reversal in her favor was sealed, while Ioannidis’s second accurate strike from the white bullet in the 93′ shaped the final result…
In the minds of the coaches:
THE Fearless lined up in formation 4-3-3, with Tsintotas in goal and Keshrida, Acevedo, Tzavella and De Bock four at the back. Conte, Kamara and Ender fought in the axis and Robbie-Valencia on the flanks of Vergo, who played at the top of the attack.
THE Panathinaikos on the other hand, it “went down” with four changes in relation to the match with Maccabi Haifa, system 4-2-3-1 and Brignoli under the goalposts. Kotsiras, Schenkefeld, Gedvai and Huancar formed the four in defense and Ruben-Vilena the two central midfielders. With Palacios-Mancini at the two ends of the attack and Bernard behind Ioannidis, who was the only forward.
The match:
Panathinaikos took possession of the ball from the start, controlled the pace but failed to create cracks in the opposing defense in the first minutes.
With the exception of a phase in the 8th minute, where De Bok caught up and drove the dangerous turn from the right of Palasios into a corner in front of the oncoming Ioannidis!
As Fearless was very well organized and he was looking for the deep balls to become threatening, but without succeeding…
Another attempt by the “greens”, in the 15th minute, was left incomplete, after Tzavellas caught up and countered Ioannidis’ shot, from inside the area and to the right.
While they couldn’t get anything substantial even from some successive corners they won afterwards. With the pace being quite low and the hosts recording it first really big chance to score…
When in the 31st minute and from Cude’s cross from the right, Valencia took the header at the second post but Brignoli made an impressive save in his right corner, keeping it 0-0!
This phase seems to have woken up Panathinaikos, however, after they increased their pressure and, three minutes later, missed a double chance for 0-1. First with Kotsiras making a nice vertical pass to Palasios who was beaten by Tsintotas, while then the shot of Vilena was blocked by Kunde with his head!
Finally, the guests arrived at coveted goal for them thanks to the overthrow of Palasios by Keshrindas and the composure of Ioannidis from 11 steps, with the Greek striker making it 0-1 with a penalty in the 38th minute.
However, out of… nowhere, Atromitos found an equalizer in the second minute of extra time in the first half. As a result of a foul by Kude, Ender went to the “back” of the defense, caught the ball and, combined with Brignoli’s misplaced exit, tied at 1-1…
Equally… shockingly, the second half started for Panathinaikos, however, after finding itself early on… chasing the score. When from new inactivity which led to Acevedo’s cross from the left, o Vergos in the small area he beat Gedvai in the air and scored with a header in the… first phase of Peristeriotes, in the 50′!
The “clover” he replied six minutes later, but no… right, as an unmarked Palacios missed a header after Ruben’s pinpoint pass for Mancini and the latter’s turn.
THE Palasios he made another “rough” finish in the 63rd minute, from inside the area, only to have another bad defensive transition by his team that led to Atromitos 3-1, in the very next phase…
With Ender making the vertical pass to Robaille, Brignoli hesitantly making the exit from his goal and the French winger of Atromitos with a “dug” place to score 3-1!
THE Ivan Jovanovich made a triple change, he also brought Sporar into the game, turning his team’s system into a 4-4-2, but, with the exception of the 76th minute phase, where Mancini missed the… unmissable, Panathinaikos could not really threaten the his opponent and showed signs of collapse.
Entering the final minutes, that changed, of course, but it was… too late. As Mancini’s powerful shot in the 89th minute shook it horizontal beam of Tsintotas, while the goalkeeper of the home team saved the shot of Ioannidis in the very next phase!
Finally, Ioannidis managed to beat Tsintotas for the second time from the penalty spot, making the final 3-2 in the third minute of extra time, after the hand of De Bok and the examination of the phase through VAR.
MVP: Although he didn’t achieve a single one of the Intrepid’s three goals, however Pierre Conte was in most of the important phases for his team… 1-1 is scored from his own assist, while the 2-1 phase also starts from his feet. At the same time, the Cameroonian midfielder was the one who put the “stop” in the second shot of Villena, at 0-0!
the “whistle”: The referee Diamantopoulos it did not affect the result in Peristeri, having a normal refereeing. He correctly awarded a penalty in favor of Panathinaikos in a reversal of Palasios, while with the hint of the VAR he also correctly awarded the second one, for De Bock’s hand. Another difficult phase did not happen to him, while in the disciplinary control he took out the cards he needed, since in general there were not many hard markings.
The compositions of the two teams:
Fearless (Sasha Ilyich): Tsintotas, Keshrida, Acevedo, Tzavellas, De Bok, Conte, Ender (90’+4′ Imrekov), Kamara (87′ Fridjonsson), Robay (87′ Jubitana), Vergos, Valencia.
They stayed on the bench: Marchezani, Athanasiou, Erlingmark, Kuen, Dirks, Kivrakidis.
Panathinaikos (Ivan Jovanovic): Brignoli, Kotsiras (68′ Vaiannidis), Senkefeld, Jedvai (68′ Arao), Juancar (88′ lt. Kleinheisler), Ruben, Vilena, Palasios (68′ Sporar), Bernard, Mancini, Ioannidis.
They stayed on the bench: Lodgin, Zeka, Chokai, Geremegev.
Referee: Aristotle Diamantopoulos (Arkadias).
Assistants: Konstantinos Triantafillou (Arcadia), Georgios Christakoglou (Halkidiki).
4th referee: Konstantinos Andrianos (Achaia).
VAR: Spyros Zabalas (Epirou).
AVAR: Reinhard Buxbaum (Eastern Attica).
See here the description of the match from the Match Centre
Source: Sport Fm
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