Athanasiou: “Panathinaikos put his hands in and took out his eyes – As if Bakasetas had been in the team for years”

Nikos Athanasiou stood at superficiality which showed Panathinaikos in the attacking third of the pitch against Atromitos, marking through him News Bulletin 247 that he made it difficult for himself in view of rematches and intermediate derbies in the league.

“It’s an easy to read game. Panathinaikos put his hands up and took out his eyes yesterday. Terim chose to field a goalkeeper and two central defenders at the same time, without them having a single training session together. The first goal came from a miscommunication. There is also the goal conceded where Panathinaikos has… ten players in the opposing area. Of course, all these are details in front of the big picture, which has to do with the unimaginable failure. Very sketchy and hasty choices, no quality. As an image, I think it was one of Panathinaikos’ best performances in recent times. If he can get that attacking performance in a week at Peristeri, I don’t see any way he won’t come through. Now he made it difficult for himself, of course, in terms of the rotation he could do, with PAOK and Olympiacos between“, he said about it.

The station’s reporter pointed out that both of the Pigeons’ goals came from quick transition, with the “cloverleaf” looking a bit…unreadable in that stretch, having had the defensive transition problem since the start of the season.

Commenting on the “newcomers” to Panathinaikos, Athanasiou noted that Bakasetas showed as if he has been playing for years in the team, playing a very good game and referred to the individual elements shown by Hugo, Akaidin and Dragovski.

While being asked about Maksimovic’s case, he emphasized that yes, we will have to wait a day or two more, but, at the given time, it is most likely that he will not come to the “greens” in January.

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