OFI-Atromitos: With a different… time for the first three points

With the showdown OFI-Atromitos in “Th. Vardinogiannis” opens, on Saturday afternoon (24/8, 19:30), the program of the 2nd matchday of the Stoiximan Super League.

The match will be televised from Cosmote Sport 2 HD and radio by News Bulletin 247while there will be live updates from sport-fm.gr.

Both teams are looking for their first “three points” of the new season. Of course, they don’t come with the same… force from the first “turn”.

And this is because, initially, the hosts were defeated 3-0 from the AEK in the closed doors OPAP Arena. Given the difficulty of the undertaking due to the opponent, what was most problematic – with the extenuating circumstances that naturally exist due to the era – was the appearance of the Cretans. Two quick goals for the clearly superior “Union” (11′ Garcia, 14′ Pelios), one more in the finale (83′ Tzumber), with Traianos Della’s team essentially creating only one good phase in the game.

On the other hand, the Peristerians – who also had a difficult task welcoming him Mars– they might not have won either (1-1), however they produced quite good writing samples (after their friendly). In fact, in the 66th minute they found themselves back on the scoreboard against the flow – being more threatening – due to the Koselev-Brotherson misunderstanding, which resulted in the Swedish stopper’s own goal. Nevertheless, Pablo Garcia’s team showed the element of reaction, responding to 74′ with his penalty kick Ward.

In the competitive part now, OFI’s mission is for the first time its important transfer acquisition, Levan Sengelia. On the other hand, Neira was left out, who continued treatment, as were Sotiriou, Kalafatis, Theodosoulakis, Lagoudakis, Konstantinos Hnaris, Manos Hnaris, Simantirakis, Zacharioudakis, Adamakis, Pistikos, Faitakis, Koutsoupias and Fanourakis for tactical reasons.

As far as the “blue and white” are concerned, the mission includes Carlitoswho had been forced to change against Aris. On the contrary, Tzovaras continues to be out due to discomfort and Argyriou for tactical reasons.

The compositions of the two teams:

OFI (Traianos Dellas): Christogeorgos – Gonzales, Bressan, Lambropoulos, Hatzitheodoridis – Karachalios, Gayegos – Sengelia, Bakits, Riera – Iseka.

Fearless (Pablo Garcia): Koselev – Kini, Stavropoulos, Mansour, Athanasiou – Baku, Ender, Mihorl, Warda – Van Weert, Carlitos.

Referee: Konstantinos Resident

First Assistant: Christos Koronas

Second Assistant: Petros of Patras

4th referee: Photios Polychronis

VAR: Vasilios Fotias