In one of the most ambiguous pairs of the quarter-final phase of the Betsson Greek Cup, the ticket to the semi-finals will be decided!
Panaitolikos hosts OFI today at 17:00 (Cosmote Sport 4, sport-fm.gr, bwinSPORT FM) in Agrinio, wanting to defend the 2-1 advantage from the Heraklion match and qualify for the first time in its history in the semi-finals of the institution.
In order to do this, the team of Yannis Petrakis has prepared properly, with the Greek coach having seen his players ready for battle, despite the defeat in Agrinio by Lamia for the 20th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League.
In fact, the Greek coach is also counting on Torrehon who will ultimately remain in the team, while Oikonomou-Mladen are also in the team. On the contrary, the injured Baldasara remains out, Kapino is part of the rotation as well as the recently newly acquired Tabinje and Babok.
The mission of the Panaitolikos in detail: Bakakis, Mladen, Oikonomou, Karelis, Huanpi, Hatzitheodoridis, Chaves, Fr. Duarte, Lomonaco, Dias, Torrejon, B. Duarte, Sengelia, Stergiakis, Pereth, Mavrias, Tsingaras, Pedro, Malis, Liavas, Kontouris, Nikolaou.
On the other side, OFI is called upon to overcome two consecutive defeats (by Panaitolikos for the Cup and AEK for the championship) with a great turnaround that will also mean its qualification to the top four of the Cup for the first time since the 2013-14 season. The Cretans face several competitive problems, since Pepe Mel does not count on Diko, Pasalidis and Karo who are in the process of leaving, as in Giannoulis, Marinakis, Simantirakis, Adamakis.
On the other hand, Iseka, who joined the team just two days ago, is traveling to Agrinio and is ready to offer his services to the Spanish technician.
The mission of the Cretans is as follows: Bowman, Sotiriou, Kalafatis, Larson, Abada, Thorarinson, Lambropoulos, Bressan, Vouros, Meyado, Glaser, Gayegos, Bakits, Apostolakis, Neira, Toral. Riera, Baku, Mosquera, Theodosoulakis, Iseka, Felipe.
Possible lineups:
Panaitolikos (Yiannis Petrakis): Stergiakis – Mavrias, B. Duarte, Mladen, Oikonomou, Torrehon- Liavas, Peres, Huanpi – Karelis, Z. Pedro
OFI (Pepe Mel): Bowman – Lambropoulos, Vouros, Bressan- Thorarison, Meyado, Glazer, Bakics, Abada- Baku, Felipe
Referee: Polychronis
Assistants: Karagizopoulos, Patras
VAR: Gortsilas, Moysiadis
Fourth: Maloutas
Source: Sport Fm
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