“They knew» him Mars with… buzz beater of Vaiannidis in the 97′ and took it Greek Cup Betsson The Panathinaikoswinning 1-0 to final thriller of the Panthessalian stadium!
The “clover” – which, although visibly more stressed, showed an overall greater willingness to play football – was left with one less player than the 51′due to his expulsion Kotsira.
With the Thessalonians – who had a decidedly more defensive approach in the final – to… suffer the same in 65′due to his expulsion Darida and the Zul there they are “condemns” in the 71st minuteleaving them with nine…
For Vagiannidis to come, as we mentioned above, in the seventh minute of extra time, to send the ball into Questa’s net from assist of Juancarto give his team the trophy and send it to second qualifying round of Europa League of the new season!
In the minds of the coaches:
THE Panathinaikos lined up with a system 4-2-3-1 Lodingin in goal and Kochira, Arao, Jedvai and Huancar four at the back. Ruben and Cerin were the two on the axis, with Mancini, Bacacetta and Bernard in the back three behind Ioannidis, who played at the top of the attack.
THE Mars on the other hand it also “descended” in formation 4-2-3-1 and Cuesta under the goalposts, while Odubajo, Fabiano, Brambetz and Montoya made up the back four. Zul and Darida played as “cutters”, with Suleimanov, Garcia and Zamora in front, while Moron was the center forward.
The match:
Both teams cautious at the start of the final, trying to keep and circulate the ball, without taking too many risks, with the bad pitch not helping much.
The first phase came from “chaff” by Jedvai which resulted in a corner, from whose execution the ball reached Montoya after Lodingin’s wrong exit, but his shot from outside the area was off target, in the 5th minute. While the same was the result of another attempt by the “yellows”, who waited until the center to start the pressure, with Moron, three minutes later.
The “clover” sought to attack mainly on the right sidewith many and quick passes by his players, which however also brought several mistakes, as a result of which he did not succeed in actually threatening Cuesta’s goal.
The game had no rhythm. But it was tense, mainly because of the many fouls committed and attributed by Frapar… Primarily by the Aris players, who continued to defend themselves very properly and organized and to… irritate those of Panathinaikos, who had a meaningless movement initiative.
So somehow we had to get to 25th minute to see the first truly remarkable phase. When, from Suleymanov’s free kick from the left, o Fabiano he took her head on the second beam, for Lodingin to make an impressive save and to then be removed by Kotsiras!
In the development of another “set up” ball, came the “answer” of the typically home team tonight, two minutes later. As the Mancini became the owner of the ball, entered the area from the right with nice energyshot with his left but Cuesta blocked!
Shortly after half an hour, Panathinaikos had another double attempt, through respective shots by Kotsora and Ruben, which were saved by… Fabiano and Brambets respectively.
With the nerves… on both sides maintained, the Thessalonians remain committed to their plan, even if they are now lagging behind in visits to Lodingin’s frames and Conte switching sides in the final minutes to Mancini-Bernard maybe… something changes but in vain, the two teams went to the locker room tied, scoreless.
The second half started without changes from the two coaches, but with Kotsiras to make… his abortion a gift to Marswith a second yellow card in the 51st minute, for marking on Samoras!
In fact, four minutes later, the away team saw Jedvai catch up to Samora in a quick counter-attack, sending it to a corner. Of which again the second missed – although unmarked – the huge opportunity to open the scoringshooting wide from contact, after Suleimanov’s turn from the left!
Vaiannidis entered the game in the 63rd minute, replacing… right-back Mancini, for the again numerical balance of the two groups, through dismissal of Darida also with a second yellow cardat 65′.
Things got even worse for Aris six minutes later. As one needless and…stupid zul blow, out of phaseto Bakashetta in front of Frapard, led to the outright expulsion of him and his team to be left with nine players on the field!
With Manzio turns to 4-3-1with Moron single forward and Suleimanov-Samora supporting Verstraat.
The “greens” took control from that point on, however they lacked the required patience and clarity of mind and came very close to scoring in the 79th minute. When from a nice pass by Juancar, o Bernard entered the area from the left, shot “with the first try”but the ball went through few outs…
Looking for the… coveted goal, they had a very big missed opportunity in the third minute of stoppage time, with Cerin “laying” for Bakasetawhose shot went wide barely next to it from Cuesta’s left post.
Finally, redemption for Panathinaikos came in the seventh minute of stoppage time, right there Juancar stuffing from the leftthe upcoming Vaiannidis scored with a spot kick at the second postmaking the final 1-0!
MVP: Being the scorer of the only goal, the one that was to decide the cup as well, the George Vagiannidis he automatically gets the prize of the most valuable… home! He came on as a substitute and managed to score his first goal in the Panathinaikos shirt, in his second term in the team, at… the best moment.
the “whistle”: Frapar made… too much use of her whistle, sometimes forced of course, due to the many flagging-fouls that there were, and all this resulted in no football being played, overall. The French referee tried to keep control, in this way, even issuing five yellow cards in the first half alone! However, all three dismissals of Kotsira, Darida and Zoul were correct.
The compositions of the two teams:
Panathinaikos (Christos Kontis): Lodingin, Kotsiras, Arao, Gedvai, Huancar, Ruben, Cerin, Bakasetas, Mancini (63′ Vagiannidis), Ioannidis, Bernard.
They stayed on the bench: Dragovski, Ugo, Aitor, Mladenovic, Geremegev, Djuricits, Kyriopoulos, Katris.
Ares (Akis Manzios) : Cuesta, Odubajo, Fabiano, Brambetz, Montoya, Zul, Darinda, García (68′ Berstraat), Suleimanov, Moron, Zamora.
They stayed on the bench: Houtesiotis, Fetfatzidis, Agorastos, Panagidis, Veleth, Ansarifard, Ferrari, Roz.
Referee: Stéphanie Frapard (France).
Assistants: Michael Bercebrou, Stephane Torregrossa (France).
4th referee: Aristotle Diamantopoulos (Arkadias).
VAR: Hamid Ghenawi (France).
AVAR: Konstantinos Psarris (Zante).
See here the description of the match from the Match Centre
Source: Sport Fm
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