Steaua-Olympiakos: Landing in Romania for the double eight!

Bucharest is blushing and Olympiacos is looking for… octave jump! The “red and white” are tested at the “National Arena” against Steaua (22.00, Cosmote Sports, ANT1, bwinSPORT FM, www.sportfm.gr) for the 5th matchday of the League Phase of the Europa League.

A pivotal game in view of the continuation, since Olympiacos is at -2 against its opponent and if it wins it will now have the top eight in its hands. In case of a draw, he will, of course, remain alive, while if he loses, then things will be difficult and he will then look for a good placement at 9-24.

In Bucharest, therefore, a small… Karaiskaki, after all, will be set up more than 5 thousand Olympiacos fans they will be in the game. The two close derby victories against PAOK (2-3) and AEK (4-1) brought excitement to the ranks of the world, who will support their favorite team, hoping to reward them. The Mendiliber team therefore comes from the emphatic victory against AEK, performing an impressive performance. Earlier, he had defeated PAOK in Toumba, while before that he had stayed at home in a 1-1 draw with Rangers for the 4th matchday of the Europa League.

“Meddy” doesn’t count them Carmo, Zelsonbut he saw to his pleasure that the expedition was joined by Come on, Ciquinioputting himself at the service of the Piraeus, after overcoming their problems. Velde, Willian, Biancon also returned to the team, with Vasco having two dilemmas for the starting line-up. One in the axis where Ese, Garthia, Mouzakitis are playing for two positions. In the second dilemma, if Tsiquinio is available to start, then Masouras-Kostoulas will claim a place in the midfield.

The mission in detail: Paschalakis, Tzolakis, Anagnostopoulos, Ortega, Biancon, Pirola, Costinia, Rodiney, Retsos, Apostolopoulos, Doe, Stamenich, Velde, Garcia, Willian, Chiquinho, Oliveira, Ese, Mouzakitis, El Kaabi, Yaremchuk, Masouras, Kostoulas.

“All the games are important, as is tomorrow’s because if we win it we will pass our opponent in the standings and it will bring us closer to our goal which is qualification. The fact that we won the last two games does not mean that this will happen tomorrow, it is about different opponents, with a different style of play. But we have in mind our own game and to implement on the field the ideas we have prepared”he said, among other things, at the press conference Mendiliber.

OR Steaua for her part, she wants to do damage to the second Greek team as well. The first was PAOK, whom they defeated 1-0 in Toumba, while in total the Romanians have 3 wins and 1 loss in the League Phase of the Europa League. Of course, even with a positive result, they embrace qualification and continue to play hard for the eight. This is a set that has played 31 games so far in the season and stands out for the fast pace it gives them. He scores, but he also concedes goals and it remains to be seen how he will manage the match against Olympiakos. Because we know that if he gives space to the Piraeus, then he will pay for it…

“Olympiacos is a great team, they play very well, but every team has weak points and we will attack them. We carefully analyze each opponent. I think we’ve played a lot of good games so far and we’ve proven that we can handle everybody. It is important for us to win. I’m not good at math, I don’t know what it takes to qualify, but all we know is that we’re going for the win and I think we can get it.”stated the Cypriot coach of Steaua, Ilias Charalambous.

Back Pandea, midfielder Baba Alhassan and forward Luis Felipe are not considered for the match, while midfielder Lixandrou has been absent for some time.

POSSIBLE ELEVENS

STEAWA: Tarnovanu – Cretou, Engezana, Popescu, Radunovic – Kirikes, Sut – Mikulescu, Olaru, Tanase – Birligea.

OLYMPIC: Tzolakis – Costinia, Retsos, Pirola, Ortega – Garcia, Ese – Rodiney, Tsiquinio, Masouras – El Kaabi.

Referee: Sebastian Gischhammer (Austria)

Assistants: Ronald Riedel (Austria), Santino Schreiner (Austria)

Fourth: Jakob Zemmler (Austria)

VAR: Manuel Sittengruber (Austria), Walter Altmann (Austria)