Olympiacos-AEK: Red and white reaction or yellow and black title?

The championship is coming to an end, but the champion is still not out. It is also possible that after the end of the 9th matchday they will not have a champion and everything will be clarified next Sunday in the last match of the season. In “Georgios Karaiskakis”, therefore, the Olympic hosts her AEK (20:00, Cosmote Sports, bwinSPORT FM, www.sportfm.gr) in a game of enormous interest.

The hosts are looking for a return to winning ways and good performances, wanting to take advantage of any loss of points by Panathinaikos in Toumba to move up to 3rd place in the standings. The guests, for their part, want the three points, so that in essence they can lock the championship, while in the event that PAOK does not beat Panathinaikos, then they will essentially win the title again.

THE Olympic comes from a 2-0 defeat in Toumba a few days ago and is out of contention for the championship. The “red and white” were, as was reasonable, very tired from the two particularly demanding matches with Aston Villa and its small rotation Mendiliber it didn’t manage to give them more freshness, with the image not being good at all. Now, they are concentrating on making a good final in the league, taking 3rd place and then lifting the European in the “OPAP Arena” against Fiorentina.

Guide to today’s game for Piraeus the match of the first round in New Philadelphia, where they dominated but failed to get the three points, paying for their failure. After a very long time, Cabral was included in the mission by Jose Luis Mendiliber, while Doi, El Arabi and Jovetić return in this match compared to the last match. On the contrary, Retsos, who is suspended, Ibora, Ortega, Richards, who face issues, but also Masouras, Navarro, Alexandropoulos, were left out!

The mission in detail: Carvalho, Nelson, Vezo, Pontense, Ciquinio, El Kaabi, El Arabi, Ese, Kini, Apostolopoulos, Paschalakis, Rodinei, Tzolakis, Martins, Karmo, Fortounis, Orta, Papadoudis, Cabral, Jovetic, Doi.

THE AEK for her part, she was defeated before the stoppage by 3-2 PAOK in Toumba, in a match that did not have a good face but managed to transform its moments into goals. However, they conceded two goals in the final game and missed out on a chance to lock up the title. He can do it today, since if he wins then the match of the last competition will be against the low-potential opponent Lamia, while if he doesn’t win, PAOK gets it as well. THE Matias Almeida he has almost all the weapons at his disposal, since only the suspended Rota is absent and he is expected to choose the best possible line-up.

“Olympiacos has improved a lot. It is the team that represents Greece in European competitions. Both his players and his coach deserve my respect. The opponent comes from something very important, which elevates Greek football, his team being in the final of the Conference League. And it was worth it”Almeida chivalrously said about the Piraeus in his statements, while he specifically mentioned about the match: “We will try to see AEK, which we have been seeing for two years. A competitive AEK. An AEK that fights until the last minute in all competitions. We hope and expect to see this AEK”.

The “yellow and black” didn’t send out a mission, as they usually do Rota and the Fernandes to be out, while it remains to be seen Mukudi’s readiness and if he is able to get a starting shirt.

POSSIBLE ELEVENS:

Olympic: Tzolakis – Rodinei, Vezo, Karmo, Apostolopoulos – Ese, Orta – Fortounis, Jovetic, Pontense – El Kaabi.

AEK: Stankovic – Sidibe, Vida, Mukudi, Hadjisafi – Jonsson, Szymanski, Eliasson, Pineda – Araujo, Garcia.

Referee: Stiller

Assistants: Gitelman, Bors

Fourth: Vergetis

VAR: Pearl, Buxbaum