Lyon-Olympiakos: Looking for an ideal start, having the air of… Conference!

The holder of the Conference is thrown into the battle of the Europa League! THE Olympic is tested at the “Groupama Stadium” against the Lyon (22.00, Cosmote TV, bwinSPORT FM, www.sportfm.gr) for the premiere of the League Phase of the second-tier UEFA competition.

A game that finds both teams in a bad mood. The hosts, on the other hand, have made a bad start to the season, counting just one win in five league matches. At the same time, the visitors are coming off consecutive points losses in the Stoiximan Super League.

OR Lyonwell, he experienced the absolute nightmare a few days ago in Ligue 1. He saw Marseille play with a player less than 5′, took the lead but accepted the reversal. He managed to equalize in stoppage time, but the Marseilles found the winning goal in the 5th minute of stoppage time (2-3). In bad shape, the atmosphere smells of gunpowder and there are leaks to the press about a change of the layout by Pierre Saez. Leaks coming mainly from the management side, as can be seen from the French publications. However, we will hardly see the 3-5-2 change in the end.

The injured remain out of commission for the “liones”. Lopes, Kubeni, Benrahma and Akuoku. A place in the eleven is claimed by Omari and Tesman in defense and in midfield, respectively.

THE Olympic he doesn’t seem to be at his best, either. In the last ten days he had two losses in the league, which were combined with bad performances. First came the 0-0 in “G. Karaiskakis” with Panaitolikos and then followed by the defeat at “Kl. Vikelidis” from Aris with 2-1. He seems to lack the freshness and intensity that was characteristic of the team presented by Mendiliber in the finale of last season, reaching the Conference League.

Out of the plans of the Basque technician were the Giorgos Masouras and Zelson Martinswhile on the contrary Theofanis Bakulas, Christos Mouzakitis and Charalambos Kostoulas will be on the mission, as will Panagiotis Retsos! Possibly there will be a change in the arrangement from Medilibar, since there is a thought to line up with 3-5-2 and to be left aside 4-2-3-1. Something that might happen due to the absences that the experienced technician has to deal with in the midfield.

The Olympiakos team for the battle in Lyon included: Paschalakis, Tzolakis, Anagnostopoulos, Ortega, Biancon, Pirola, Carmo, Costinia, Rodiney, Retsos, Apostolopoulos, Doi, Stamenic, Velde, Garcia, Willian, Ciquinho, Oliveira, Bakulas, Ese, Mouzakitis, El Kaabi, Jaremchuk, Kostoulas.

In terms of tradition, Lyon have three wins in as many home matches against Olympiakos, while they have a 4-1-3 record against Greek teams. At the same time, Piraeus have a record of 11-3-18 against the French, however their away record is 4-1-11.

POSSIBLE ELEVENS:

Lyon (Pierre Saze): Peri – Mata, Omari, Niakate – Maitland-Niles, Veretou, Tessmann, Matic, Tolisso – Orban, Lacazette.



Olympiakos (Jose Luis Mediliber): Tzolakis – Biancon, Carmo, Pirola – Rodinei, Stamenic, Ese, Ciquinho, Ortega – Velde, El Caabi.

Referee: Lawrence Wieser

Assistants: Ryan Vanizere, Thibaut Nissen

Fourth: Simon Bordoui

VAR: Bram Van Thiessen, Daniele Keefe