Fifth and… last friendly for him Panathinaikoswho welcomes the Maccabi Netanya today (18/07) at 9:00 p.m. (sport-fm.gr, bwinSPOR FM 94.6, COSMOTE SPORT 1), in “Apostolos Nikolaidis”.
With the “greens” essentially completing this year’s summer training and at the same time the Diego Alonso to test his team’s readiness for the following games, in the second qualifying round of the Europa League.
Having shown a pretty good image in the previous match, against AEK Larnaca and winning 3-1, Panathinaikos is invited to… repeat it tonight.
To put it on the field again some of the items that work all this time and the Uruguayan coach wants to see, to confirm its progress and to “make” psychology of, in view of next Thursday (25/07).
Against him, the “clover” will meet a team that continues its preparation and counts so far two friendly matches: the recent 2-2 draw against Levski Sofia and a 2-0 victory over Botev Vratsa, both in Bulgaria.
At the competitive level, the… lights fall on Ingie Ingason, obviously. With the Icelandic centre-back included in his new team’s squad for the first time and, probably, to take participation timebeing ready to offer immediately!
More generally, of course, logic says that the 11 that Alonso will probably line up will also have the lead regarding the 49-year-old coach’s choices for his team’s first official game.
Besides, with the exception of Fotis Ioannidiswho continues his individual program and does not count, the unprepared George Baldockbut also them Adam Cerin, Andraz Sporar and Benjamin Verbichrecently returned from Euro 2024, has no further problems.
In detail, the Panathinaikos team includes: Dragovski, Lodingin, Lilo, Vaiannidis, Mladenovic, Kotsiras, Schenkefeld, Jedvai, Fikai, Katris, Ingason, Ruben, Arao, Maksimovic, Vilena, Zeka, Bakasetas, Aitor, Mancini, Djuricic, Limnios, Nikas and Geremegev.
“Draws” for Botev-Maribor
From there, Panathinaikos will learn today which team they will be invited to face and… eliminate, initially on July 25 at Leoforo, from the pair of Botev Plovdiv and Maribor…
With the 2-1 replay, which ended the first leg, taking place at 21:15 in Slovenia, the Bulgarians have a narrow lead for qualification.
Source: Sport Fm
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