Olympiacos-OFI: They are both looking for… medical

After a strange week, Olympiacos welcomes OFI to Karaiskakis at 17:30 in a match in which the goal is victory and indeed in a way that will heal some wounds that opened the previous matchday after the defeat by Panathinaikos.

The week before was a week of changes for the red and whites. After the defeat in the derby, we had changes with Darko Kovacevic taking over the post of technical director instead of Pedro Alves and Sotiris Sylaidopoulos taking the anointing of the coach, for one match today. This afternoon, therefore, the K19 coach will be on the bench of the first team and in Karaiskakis’ suite, there will be the team’s new coach, Jose Luis Montilibar, who will have set foot in Greece a little earlier to see the his young players to compete.

The red and whites are looking for a victory, therefore, which is considered demanding, due to the conditions but also because they do not want to move further away from the top of the standings. Sotiris Sylaidopoulos cannot count on El Arabi and Retso while Cabral and Vezo are on the mission.

On the other hand, now and the conditions that have formed for OFI in the previous week are not the best. Competitively, the team comes from two defeats in the league, with Kifissia and AEK and an elimination in the Cup by Panaitolikos with two other defeats that have caused quite a lot of problems and have made Pepe Mel’s life difficult on the bench. However, in the previous days there were also administrative problems with the president and owner of the team, Michalis Bousi, allegedly being dissatisfied with criticisms – and not only – that were made, with the organizers however yesterday with an official announcement clarifying that these do not come from them , while at the same time expressing their absolute confidence in the person of the owner of the PAE.

The climate is strange and accordingly a good result is sought which will come to heal the wounds that have been opened, otherwise changes may occur.

Mel took Jimenez and Loukao who were acquired in the past few days, but he cannot count on Toral, Bressan, the suspended Lambropoulos, and Simantirakis and Sotiriou, Koutentakis, Kalafati, Theodosoulakis and Adamakis.

The possible 11s

Olympian (Sotiris Sylaidopoulos): Paschalakis-Rodinei, Doi, Karmo, Ortega-Tsikinio, Orta, Alexandropoulos-Massouras, Pontense, El Kaabi

OFI (Pepe Mel): Bauman-Larson, Vouros, Giannoulis, Abada, Abada-Meyado, Glaser, Bakics-Felipe

Referee: Tsimenterides

Assistants: Karagizopoulos, Kollias

VAR: Evangelou, Konstantinou

Fourth: Tsakalides