Savior Anthony Martial spoke again at the right time and gave a great victory to AEKwhich prevailed 2-1 of OFI at Gedi Koule for its 14th game Stoiximan Super League.
Although nothing went well for her in Heraklion, with him Rota and him Vida to leave injured before the first half was even over, while also falling behind thanks to a stunning goal by Karahaliouthe Union found the mental reserves and brought the match somersault.
THE Mukudi for the second consecutive match and o Martial for the 4th time in a row they found the back of the net for her AEKwhich again reduced its distance from the top and the leader Olympic to 3 degrees. Terrible energy of Levi Garcia in the winning goal of the Union!
In the minds of the coaches:
THE Milan Rastavac started with 4-2-3-1 and Christogeorgos under the posts. Gondaleth found himself on the right of defence, Abada on the left and Silva and Bressan composed the central defensive duo. Karahalios-Bakic in midfield, with Sengelia on the right, Nuss on the left and Neira behind the promoted Jung.
On the other hand, Mr Matias Almeida lined up an eleven… ala Aris, as he chose the same 11 that he had started in the game with the “yellows” for the championship. Strakosia started under the goalposts, with Rota, Vida, Mukudi and Pelio making up the back four. The midfield duo consisted of Simanski and Pineda with Ljubicic just up front, Fernandez on the right wing, Martial on the left and Levi Garcia up top.
The match:
The match started with AEK having the wind in their favor and the OFI players having quite a hard time moving the ball away from their own half. The Union had control of the pace in the first minutes with their Ljubisic and Pineda to have freedom of movement in the axis and to be supports in the development phase, but without any opportunity arising from this supremacy.
Only in the 15th minute Matias Almeida proceeded to a forced change, as o Rota he was unable to continue after being hit by Jung in an aerial duel between the two.
His place was taken by Odubajowho immediately made his presence felt, as he was the player who earned the dismissal of Thiago Nuss in the 20th minute. The Cretan winger completely recklessly punched the AEK right back out of phase and while Tsimenterides did not initially realize the seriousness of the action, he went to on field review after an intervention by VAR Papadopoulos and showed her red in the Mind.
The relegation confused the Union more than it helped, with Matias Almeida’s players trying to create with hasty actions and no patience. All this until the 36th minute, when OFI opened the scoring.
While the Vida he had gone off the pitch to receive first aid and AEK to play with 10o Karachalios he stole the ball and with an amazing shot opened the scoring for the Cretans.
The Croatian defender was unable to continue and Matias Almeida decided to bring him on Lamella in place, displacing him Shimansky in the stoppers and him Ljubisic next to Pinedas. A bold move, but which bore fruit, since the Argentine made the assist on Mukudiwho at 45+6′ made it 1-1 from close range with a header.
AEK entered the second half strongly and had a goal in the 49th minute with Ljubisic, however, the consecutive interruptions and the great tension between the players of the two teams did not help the game to be played.
Somehow we reached the final minutes without any significant phase and with the Union desperately searching for the goal that would give them the victory. And she finally managed to find it with the man who gifted her with his goals the qualification to the quarter-finals of the Cup.
THE Anthony Martial made it 2-1 in the 87th minute for the Union, with half of the goals belonging to Levi Garcia! The ace from Trinidad and Tobago, after passing three players and played it one or two with Pieromade the parallel turn and the Frenchman in an empty net formed the final score, giving a very important victory to AEK.
MVP: For one more match o Martial he is the one who scores the decisive goal, but he wouldn’t have succeeded if o Levi Garcia he had not done this incredible action. Levi deserves the title of the most valuable!
The whistle: O Tsimenterides he failed to manage the match, which at some point… slipped away. The two teams were playing with a lot of intensity and his whistles encouraged her more than discouraged her. It took the on field review and his intervention VAR Papadopoulos to give her red in the Mindin a phase that happened in front of him. It didn’t help the pace of the match in general.
OFI (Milan Rastavac): Christogeorgos, Abada, Silva, Bressan (57′ Christopoulos), Gondhaleth, Karachalios, Bakics, Neira (66′ Apostolakis), Nous, Sengelia, Jung.
AEK (Matias Almeida): Strakosa, Pelios (72′ Mandalos), Mukudi (72′ Mitoglou), Vida (39′ Lamela), Rota (16′ Odubajo), Simanski, Pineda, Ljubicic, Martial, Fernandes (72′ Piero), Levi Garcia.
Referee: Tsimenterides
Assistants: Triantafillou, Spyropoulos
4th: Balachutis
VAR: Papadopoulos, AVAR: Poulikidis
Remember HERE the live match.
Source: Sport Fm
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