Lamia-Olympiakos: A test for the Piraeus against the tough Fthiots

THE Ghoul hosts (17:00, Cosmotesport1, News Bulletin 247) the Olympic in the context of its 16th competition Stoiximan Super League.

The Piraeus are invited to overcome the obstacle of the stubborn Fthiots in the DAK in order to return to victories, but also to enter the new year on the right foot, as they did not close ideally in 2023. After drawing (0-0) at the home of Atromitos, performing poorly in the first half, while in the second half they improved with the introduction of Jovetic, but were unable to capitalize on the chances they created. Hoping, at the same time, for possible losses of their competitors, from whom they compete earlier.

“We are ready for the game, we have worked well and prepared to go and play in Lamia. I think that while I’m here our image is better in every game. Even in the last one where we didn’t have a good result, our image was better compared to the previous game. We are constantly progressing and we want to continue like this. I believe that the team will look better and better. With all due respect to Lamia we are going there to win and we are ready for it», he stated the 58-year-old technician at Cosmote ahead of the match.

Lamia started the season very strongly, flying high, but the last two months of last year did not go well, completing six games without a win (3 draws-3 defeats). In any case, Leonidas Vokolou’s team remains competitive against strong opponents and its goal is to show a good face in this particular match, to make it difficult for Piraeus and if possible to get a positive result.

Karlitos, for whom there are rumors of interest from Apollon Limassol and teams from Qatar, was left out due to minor problems. K. Papadopoulos is punished, while Lake, Tsilianidis, Saramantas, Longo and Santana will not compete either.

Olympiacos will be deprived of Carvalhal’s first two choices for the forward position. Since El Kaabi has been integrated into the Moroccan national team ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations, while El Arabi was injured on 12/18 in the match against Panserraikos and will not make it to the match. Navarro will likely get playing time. Freire, Porosso will be missing from the defense again, while Solbakken is out of the plans. Brusai is not counted either for this particular game.

The Mission of Lamia: Nagy, Hadjiemmanouil, Koselev, Tzanetopoulos, Jandaris, Sidclay, Pavlovets, Amaral, Kornezos, Vasilantonopoulos, Nunies, Slivka, Martinez, Simon, Malchi, Tsiloulis, Stanko, Moula, Tosic, Akonia, Kontonikos, Tsoukalos.

The mission of Olympiakos: He didn’t announce

Lamia (Leonidas Vokolos): Koselev – Simon, Tzanetopoulos, Kornezos, Amaral – Slivka, Zandaris, Nunies, Tsiloulis, Martinez, Maltsi

Olympiacos (Carlos Carvalhal): Paschalakis – Rodinei, Retsos, Doi, Ortega – Ese, Kamara – Pontense, Fortounis – Masouras, Jovetic

Referee: Aristotle Diamantopoulos (Arkadias)

Assistants: Tryfon Petropoulos, Konstantinos Triantafillou (Arkadias)

4th Referee: Alexandros Tsakalides (Halkidiki)

VAR: Andreas Gamaris (Athens), AVAR: Vassilis Nikolakakis (Lassithiou)