AEK and OFI begin their efforts in the new season in the Stoiximan Super League on Sunday night (18/8, 22:00), in the match that closes today’s schedule.
In a game to be played in camera due to the one-game suspension carried by “Enos” from the last match of the last championship, against Lamia.
The match will be televised from Cosmote Sport 1 HDradioed by News Bulletin 247while there will be live updates from sport-fm.gr.
On the one hand, therefore, the “yellow and black”, who have… a triple obstacle in front of them. And this is because in addition to tonight’s opponents as such, they have to contend with the fact that they will compete in front of empty stands on the one hand, and with a shattered psyche after the painful and shocking exclusion from the Noah in the 3rd qualifying round of the Conference League. However, the whole of Matias Almeida is invited to show reaction (the immediate positive results are expected to help the “yellow and black” psychologically as well). After all, her goal return to title it is clear and such home (even without crowd) losses are not acceptable, let alone with “good evening” (AEK paid for it last year with Panserraikos as well).
On the other hand, this is the first official game of the Cretans this year, who obviously aim for the best possible result. They continue his project Traianou Dellalooking up. The “black and white” have diversified important elements of their roster, so they may also need their time.
See the profiles of AEK and OFI for the new season.
In the competitive part now, firstly for AEK which has not announced an assignment, o Levi he returned on Saturday (17/8) to his normal training schedule after the discomforts that plagued him, keeping him out of the rematch with Noa, and it remains to be seen if and how much Matias Almeida will use him (having only one training session on his legs). From there on, except of course are the injured Brignoli and Johnson. They have the right to participate Odubajo, Tsiloulis and Zini which was off the European list. The Argentinian coach is expected to make changes.
As far as OFI is concerned, there was a last minute problem with him Neirawho felt discomfort in the gastrocnemius of his right leg during training. Also left out due to unpreparedness was the newly acquired player – and one of the strongest moves of the Cretans – Sengelia. Mainly for tactical reasons, Sotiriou, Kalafatis, Lagoudakis, K. Chnaris, Simantirakis, Zacharioudakis, Adamakis, Pistikos, Faitakis, Koutsoupias, M. Chnaris and Fanourakis were also excluded.
Possible compositions:
AEK (Matias Almeida): Strakosa – Odubajo, Vida, Mukudi, Hadjisafi – Amrabad, Shimanski, Pineda, Koita – Lamela, Zuber.
OFI (Traianos Dellas): Bowman – Gonzales, Bressan, Lambropoulos, Abada – Karahalios, Gayegos – Nous, Bakic, Riera – Iseka.
Referee: Spyridon Zambalas
First Assistant: Athanasios Kollias
Second Assistant: Konstantinos Liontos
4th referee: Konstantinos Tsetsilas
VAR: Stefanos Koumbarakis
In 45 meetings between the two teams with AEK as host:
35 AEK wins
4 ties
6 OFI victories
Goal: 78-30
Source: Sport Fm
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