Panserraikos-Asteras Tripoli: The hosts are motivated, the visitors are egotistical

They drop the curtain and have… different goals! THE Panseraikos hosts him Astera Tripoli for the 26th and last matchday of the Stoiximan Super League (19:30, bwinSPORT FM, www.sportfm.gr, Novasports).

A game that is predicted with great interest and concerns two teams that will eventually compete again in the playouts. With the hosts to have the motivation to win since they want to move even further away from the danger zone, while the guests they have… wounded egos after their definitive “absence” from the six. The two teams are facing each other for the fourth time this season, after in addition to the first round in Tripoli (1-0 Asteras), they had faced each other in the round of 16 of the Cup with the Serrai advancing with a win (2-0 in Tripoli ) and one draw (1-1).

THE Panseraikos, well, it comes from the 2-0 home defeat by PAOK and has… deflated quite a bit, compared to the team we saw at the beginning. He has enough time to celebrate a victory, while he suffers a lot with the field issue and it costs him, having only 3 wins at home (plus 6 draws and 3 losses with goals 14-16). He is at +6 from the danger zone and would like to enter with a bigger difference if that becomes possible in the Playouts so that he can be more ‘relaxed’.

Several absences but also returns for today’s match for Pablo Garcia. The suspended Deligiannidis, Moreira and Oikonomou, as well as the injured Thymianis, were excluded. On the other hand, Betancourt, Aleksic, Tomas, Ouedraogo and Hadjistravos are returning.

The mission of Panseraikos: Hovan, Katsikas, Bergström, Petaurakis, Peleas, Dunkerloui, Staikos, Sofianos, Ouedraogo, Mourgos, Warda, Gouleri, Diamantis, Thomas, Gotzamanidis, Deligiannidis, Avlonitis, Maskanakis, Papavasiliou, Alexits, Hadjistravos, Betankor.

The miracle of Lamia’s -4 overturning didn’t happen even one game before the final Asteras Tripoli he was also out of the top six in mathematics. The Arcades have suffered negative results in three of their most recent games. Besides the marginal defeat by Olympiakos in “G. Karaiskakis” (2-1), committed suicide against Lamia (2-1 loss), Panaitolikos (2-2) and a few days ago against Kifissia, against which they tied 3-3. Somehow, they will not compete in the playoffs, a goal that they did not have from the beginning but that arose during the season from the course of the team and its good competitive face, as well as, of course, through the progress it showed with Milan Rastavac.

Away from home comes from five consecutive defeats, having a total of 7 in 12 matches. However, he also has 4 wins and 1 draw, scoring 15-20 goals. He is called upon to react and find… motivation in the last eight matches, as difficult as this is now, so that he can close the season with smiles and a positive sign. In fact, these matches are also a criterion for the evaluation of the roster at the end of the year. THE Rastafarian announced the mission of the Arkadians, to which Dino Grozdanic returned after a long time. Out are the suspended Goss, Alagbe, Djukanovic for tactical reasons and Munafo who is reintegrating but is still not ready.

Asteras Tripoli’s mission in detail: Papadopoulos, Grammatikakis, Tsiftsis, Garthia, Houhoumis, Carmona, Picsou, Kastanio, Lyratzis, Alvares Grozdanich, Christopoulos, Yablonski, Bartolo, Palasios, Sourlis, Sito, Zouglis, Miritelos, Regis, Mantzis, Kaltsas.

POSSIBLE ELEVENS:

Panserraikos (Pablo Garcia): Hovan – Dunkerlouis, Bergström, Diamantis, Petavrakis – Staikos, Ouedraogo – Thomas, Hadjistravos, Warda – Betancourt.

Asteras Tripoli (Milan Rastavac): Tsiftsis – Lyratzis, Kastanio, Christopoulos, Alvares – Grozdanic, Yablonski – Kaltsas, Palasios, Bartolo – Miritelo.

Referee: Evangelou

Assistants: Nikolakakis, Christodoulou

Fourth: Katsikogiannis

VAR: Tzilos, Aptosoglou