All lights directed to the Avenue for the mother of “battles” of Greek football!
Panathinaikos and Olympiacos cross swords tonight at 21:30 (Cosmote Sport 1, sport-fm.gr News Bulletin 247) in the first meeting between them for the phase of “16” of the Betsson Greek Cup!
The two “eternal” rivals are completely… different from the last time they faced each other, both in psychology and potential, since both are in under the guidance of new coaches.
On the one hand, the “greens” with Fatih Terim on their bench now, they will seek to get “clean” victory in order to go into the Faliro rematch a week later with the upper hand. After all, their motivation is even greater as this season they have not tasted the joy of winning a derby, while they also want to atone for last year’s defeat at “Georgios Karaiskakis” which deprived them of the championship.
“Clover” comes from 2/2 against PAS Ioannina and Panaitoliko for the championship, results which helped his return to the top of the standings. After all, a possible victory in tonight’s derby will give full psychology for it as well upcoming derby with AEK in New Philadelphia for the 18th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League.
In the competitive part, Fatih Terim, does not count on Palacios, Palmer-Brown and Magnuson who are injured, but also to Bart Schenkefeld, who, despite training normally, was deemed unprepared, due to the virus that plagued him for the last ten days. On the contrary, the 22nd were included Ruben Perez and Benjamin Verbich who were absent from the match against Panaitolikos, after they had declared to serve their sentence.
The team of Panathinaikos consists of the following: Brignoli, Lodingin, Vagiannidis, Huancar, Ruben, Zeka, Ioannidis, Sporar, Bernard, Cerin, Mancini, Jedvai, Aitor, Mladenovic, Fikai, Kotsiras, Geremegev, Djuricic, Vilena, Arao, Verbic, Kyriopoulos.
On the other side, things are completely different at Olympiakos. The “red and white” are in a bad mood as they come from a series of unsuccessful results, with the latest defeats in Lamia with a score of 1-0 by the team of the same name, and also in Karaiskakis by AEK with a score of 2-1.
For this reason tonight’s derby is a great opportunity for the Piraeus in order to react and turn the “knob” by taking a qualifying lead.
The coach of Olympiakos, Carlos Carvalhalkeep up the… tradition not to announce shipment. The Portuguese technician, however, does not count on data Youssef El Arabi, while the participation of Pep Biel and Jovetic will also be decided at the last minute. Ayoub El Kaabi is also absent who is absent with her Moroccan national for the Africa Cup of Nations.
We remind you that the rematch will take place after a week (17/01, 21:00) at “Georgios Karaiskakis”.
The possible lineups for the matches:
Panathinaikos (Fatih Terim): Brignoli – Vagiannidis, Arao, Jedvai, Mladenovic – Perez, Vilena, Bernard – Djuricic, Aitor, Ioannidis
Olympiacos (Carlos Carvalhal): Paschalakis – Rodinei, Retsos, Doi, Ortega – Alexandropoulos, Ese – Masouras, Pontense, Fortounis – Navarro
Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)
Assistants: Heiderheich-Kolbitz (Austria)
VAR: Manuel Schettengraber
AVAR: Reinhart Buxbaum (University of Attica)
4th referee: Angelus Evangelou (Athens)
Source: Sport Fm
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