THE AEK out of the Betsson Cup losing 4-2 to Aris on penalties, in a game where she was superior to her opponent. In the Russian roulette the home team proved to be much more effective and the executioners’ choices for the “Union” were not justified.
The Tom Van Weert and Orbelin Pineda they were apt, however Domagoi Vida in the first and o Ezekiel Ponce in the third penalty they saw him Julian Cuesta to “fish” them and block their shots. However, both the Croatian stopper and the Argentinian forward do not have the best past as executors from the white bullet.
According to transfermarkt, Vida has only taken one penalty in his career in normal race time and unsuccessfully before… 14 years ago. On 20 March 2010, while playing for Osijek, he failed to score from the penalty spot in the 74th minute of a 0-0 draw against NK Sesvete in the Croatian league.
As for him Ponce, despite being a centre-forward, has only taken three penalties in his career hitting two of them. On 16 September 2016 as a Granada player in a 2-2 draw with Betis in Seville he had seen Antonio Andan’s effort blocked in the 79th minute.
On the contrary, until yesterday he had 2/2 in the penalties he had taken as an AEK player in his first term in the team. On 20/1/2019, he scored a penalty in the 20th minute of the 3-0 final over Asteras Tripoli in OAKA for the championship, while on 7/2/2019 he refereed the Cup match against Atromitos in the 86th minute with a penalty.
In regards to George Athanasiadiswho yesterday failed to save a penalty from Aris, has four interventions in the 33 penalties that have been taken against him in a regular match in his career. This year he had 0/3 before yesterday, after he had been defeated twice by Marseille in the Velodrome, but also by João Pedro in the 2-2 draw with Panaitolikos in Agrinio. As AEK’s goalkeeper, he has been beaten ten times from the penalty spot, while he has one intervention, on 2/15/2021, in the 2-4 victory over AEL, when he saved Benjamin Mukanjo’s penalty in the 96th minute and in the development of Damian Szymanski scored the fourth goal.
Source: Sport Fm
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