Panathinaikos-Asteras Tripoli: A dangerous match for the promoted, but also defeated “greens”

An extremely interesting match at 19:30 where Panathinaikos will host Asteras Tripoli, at Leoforos for the 19th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League (Cosmote, bwinSPORT FM, sportfm.gr).

THE Panathinaikos he is with the psychology at the height but also with many absences, after the qualification in his “8”. Greek Cup Betsson, defeating Olympiakos 7-6 on penalties. A game that brought problems, to those that already existed, but also a lot of fatigue after the 120 exhausting minutes in “G. Karaiskakis”. By Fatih Terim to put his little hand in order for this huge qualification to come, trying many things in the grass of mercy and the absences he had. In the first round, Panathinaikos won with 4-1 of Arkadons in Tripoli, while after this game the “clover” will turn to the first match for the quarter-finals of the Cup against Atromitos.

He had come to the championship last season 2-2 with AEK and is now tied at the top with PAOK, having 41 points both. At home, the record of the “clover” is 6-1-1 with a goal 24-5counting five consecutive victories.

THE Fatih Terim he has to manage several absences, as Vilena, Djuricic, Cherin, Geremegev, Ioannidis, Palacios, Huancar, Magnuson, Palmer-Brown are out. The first two are punished, the rest injured, while on the mission for the first time is Bartholomew Dragowski. In fact, the Turkish coach has only one forward available, the Sporar!

The mission in detail: Lodgin, Xenopoulos, Dragovski, Margono, Vaiannidis, Ruben, Schenkefeld, Zeka, Sporar, Bernard, Limnios, Mancini, Tsokai, Jedvai, Aitor, Mladenovic, Fikai, Kotsiras, Arao, Verbic, Akaidin.

On the other hand, Mr Asteras Tripoli comes from Volos’ 1-0 home win thanks to his goal Juan Miritello and consolidated in 6th place with 26 points. The Arkades were eliminated from the Cup by Panserraikos and have now turned their attention to the championship. Away from home, Arkades are doing exceptionally well, having a record 4-1-3 and they count just one defeat in the last five matches (3-1-1) and are particularly dangerous. The goal, if nothing else for the yellow and blue, is to enter the top six, with next week’s match in Tripoli against Atromitos being crucial to achieve it.

On the positive side, the Antonis Tsiftsis he returned from Rakov where he was on loan and o Milan Rastavac he has one less headache, now that o Nikos Papadopoulos he was injured and will be out for close to a month.

Of course, for today’s match Tsiftsis is out of the mission, as the Serbian coach does not count the suspended ones Juan Miritello, Pepe Castano, with their absences if nothing else being pivotal. It should also be noted that its acquisition was completed a few days ago Lefteri Lyratzis in the form of a loan from PAOK, while it will be seen if he gets even a few minutes on his feet to make his debut in Leoforo, although this seems difficult since he has done few training sessions.

The mission in detail: Grammatikakis, Kakadiaris, Garthia, Houhoumis, Picsou, Lyratzis, Alvares, Christopoulos, Djukanovics, Goss, Yablonski, Valiente, Bartolo, Munafo, Sourlis, Sito, Alagbe, Zouglis, Crespi, Mantzis, Kaltsas.

POSSIBLE ELEVENS:

Panathinaikos (Fatih Terim): Lodingin – Vaiannidis, Senkefeld, Akaidin, Mladenovic – Zeka, Kotsiras, Bernard – Mancini, Sporar, Aitor.

Asteras Tripoli (Milan Rastavac): Grammatikakis – Garthia, Christopoulos, Tzukanovics, Alvares – Monafos, Goss – Kaltsas, Zouglis, Crespi – Mantzis.

Referee: Papapetrou

Assistants: Karagizopoulos, Papadakis

Fourth: Gamaris

VAR: Tsetsilas, Nikolaidis