Ferentsvaros-Olympiakos: From…hell to heaven!

From Budapest with the aim of the next round o Olympic.

Piraeus face away from home (22:00, News Bulletin 247, sport-fm.gr, Cosmotesport2) Ferentsvaros with the aim of qualifying for the next phase of the Conference League. The “red and white” have a dowry in favor of the 1-0 of “G. Karaiskakis” with the goal of El Kaabi, while it is recalled that the regulation of away goals does not apply. So, in the event of a one-goal victory for the home team, the match will go to a half-hour overtime and if necessary, they will settle their differences on penalties.

THE Olympic, in addition to the advantage of the score from the first match, he wants to take advantage of the psychology factor, which is elevated after the great “double” at the home of PAOK, but also because of the improvement he shows. The disadvantage of Piraeus against the Hungarians is the fact that they competed in the league last weekend, while Ferentsvaros took a day off and recharged their batteries ahead of today’s match.

Olympiacos traveled with me 22 players in Budapest and among them is also Kini, who did not compete against the “double-header of the North” due to injury. It is recalled that Navarro, Biancon, Z. Martins (injured), Vezo, Cabral, Abi and Brinic are out of the list.

The mission of Olympiakos: Alexandropoulos, Papadoudis, Carvalio, Karmo, Tsikinio, El Kaabi, Fortunis, Ese, Orta, Ibora, Jovetich, Masouras, Ortega, Paschalakis, Pontense, Richards, Rodinei, Tzolakis, Doi, Retsos, El Arabi, Kini.

“If we push the opponent higher and force them to play our game, then things will be difficult for Ferencvaros. But if they shut us down, things won’t be easy for us. As a coach I like to push high and not defend too far back. We want to impose our pace, press into the opponent’s half and be the ones in control of the match. Any coach who wants to follow me will have to push high. But they are all good players and they adapt. I like how they are responding so far. I even want the defense to be high. The good thing is that even with different player choices in the last matches, everyone responded», he reported among others Jose Luis Mendiliber at Thursday’s press conference.

Ferentsvaros will want to make use of its “hot” seat and on this wavelength were the statements of Dejan Stankovic at the usual press conference. “We will be united and I want there to be a hell of an atmosphere in the stadium. I want to ask everyone to believe in the team until the last minute that we can win“, said the Serbian technician, but also: “we’re playing at home, I’m sure we’ll have chances and we want to reward our world with qualification».

It is reminded that Ferentsvaros it’s only by chance that he didn’t get here, as they were unbeaten in the Conference League group stage (2 wins, 4 draws), having previously knocked out three teams (Shamrock Rovers, Hamrun, Zalgiris) in the qualifiers. Her European journey began in the first qualifying round of the Champions League from Klaksvik.

The injured Adama Traore (striker) is not counted, while Esiti (midfielder), Nguyen (winger) and Owusu (winger) are not on the European list.

Possible compositions

Ferencvaros (Dejan Stankovic): Dibouze – Vingo, Cisse, Mahe – Makrekis, Fani, Maiga, Ramirez – Zacarlassen, Marquinhos – Varga

Olympiakos (Jose Luis Mediliber): Paschalakis – Rodinei, Doi, Carmo, Ortega – Ese, Orta, Alexandropoulos – Pontense, Masouras, El Kaabi

Referee: Clement Turpin (France)

Assistants: Nicolas Dano and Erwan Finzan (France)

4th: Rudy Bouquet

VAR: Jerome Brissard, AVAR: Willy Delazode (France)