Olympiacos-Volos: The “red and whites” are building a series and building psychology ahead of Maccabi

With an important matchup, but for completely different reasons, they complete their obligations in the regular season of the championship, Olympic and Marble.

The two teams face each other tonight (19:30, sport-fm.gr, News Bulletin 247, CosmoteSport 4) in “C. Karaiskakis” for the 26th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League.

The “red and whites” come from the difficult and stressful away victory over him Panaitolikos (1-2), which even came with a twist, thanks to the goals of Torrejon (72′ auto.) and El Kaabi (79′). As in the game with Asteras, so also in Agrinio, Jose Luis Mendiliber proceeded to extended rotation – due to the heavy schedule in Greece and Europe – something that was also reflected in the competitive image of the team, which, however, did the absolute best in this pair of games.

This is how the people of Piraeus count four league wins in a row and a total of six in all competitions, showing that they are in a good “moon”. Yes, his return a grade from CAS, allowed Olympiakos to reduce the difference from top to 4, 2 from the second PAOK and 1 from the third Panathinaikos. It follows the next one Thursday (07/03, 19:45) the home game with the Maccabi Tel Aviv for the “16” of the Conference League.

On the other hand now, Marblelast weekend celebrated the just his 4th 3-pointer of the season and first after 2.5 months and ten league games (!), winning by a score 3-1 of Lamia in Panthessalikos. The Magnesia team had to turn the tables with Vouros’ own goal in the 31st minute and the goals of Sielis and Bertolios in the 61st and 70th minutes respectively.

With this victory, his team Christos Conti went up to 11th place of the scoreboard and 20 points, I was at -3 from the last PAS Ioannina and at -2 from the 13th Kifisia.

Let’s remember that in the first round, Volos and Olympiacos were left in the draw 2-2 at Panthessalikos, in an episodic match, where the “red and white” had equalized b.

In racing now, Jose Luis Mendiliber doesn’t count for tonight’s game to the suspended Fortuni-Kini and the injured Zelson Martins, while Doi, Cabral, Carvalho and Ibora were also left out. Instead, in the mission were included Abi, El Arabi and, as the third goalkeeper, Stournaras.

As for Volos, he traveled to Piraeus with many and significant absences, as Garcia, Alho, Glavcits, Kalogeropoulos and Tsokani, who will serve their sentences, were left out, as well as Trouillet.

The mission of Olympiakos: Alexandropoulos, Biancon, Ortega, Carmo, Ciquinho, El Kaabi, El Arabi, Ese, Horta, Retsos, Iovetic, Masouras, Navarro, Paschalakis, Pontense, Abi, Richards, Rodiney, Tzolakis, Vezo, Stournaras.

The Mission of Volos: Kovacs, Kostic, Mygas, Tahatos, Sielis, Aslanidis, Rasits, Luna, Karagiannis, Kitsos, Barrientos, Bertoglio, De Camps, Olivera, Koba, Popescu, Asechnoun, Moraitis.

Possible lineups:



Olympiakos (Jose Luis Mediliber): Paschalakis, Rodinei, Vezo, Biancone, Ortega, Horta, Ese, Ciquinio, Pontense, Masouras, Navarro.

Volos (Christos Kontis): Kovacs, Mygas, Aslanidis, Sielis, Tachatos, De Camps, Barrientos, Luna, Asechnoun, Koba, Moraitis.

Referee: Tsagarakis

Assistants: Siniorakis, Karalis

4th Assistant: Inhabitant

VAR: Diamantopoulos, AVAR: Konstantinou