New year and… news Athens Kallithea appeared! In his debut Stelios Malezas on her bench, she got her maiden victory in the Stoiximan Super League and can now hope for better days. Victim of Ghoulwhich he defeated by a score 2-1 and sank her even further in the rating.
The Athenians are now on 12 points, on -2 from Levadeiakos and on -5 from Volos, Panserraikos, while the Fthiotos stayed at 9.
The experience and luck in the game spoke, since o Matiya with his help Sakor opened the scoring for the hosts, while o Valbuena he served his goal Lucina. Vokolos dropped three of his four transfers in the match of the 17th matchday, but he did not see a result and the cord is getting tighter and tighter around the Lamia team.
In the coach’s mind
Stelios Malezas brought his team down with 5-4-1. Baragan at home, with Soiri, Tsivelekidis, Mechias, Pasalidis, Kainourgios in defense. Mathias, Ediage the two midfielders, with Valbuena, Demetrius in a creative role and Loukina at the top of the attack.
Same arrangement from Leonidas Vokolos for Lamia. At the goal Raton and Dentakis, Cornezos, Siovas, Giannoutsos, Ring in defense. Sakor, Doiranlis the duo in the axis, with Sourli, Furtado more advanced and Vlachomitros in the center forward role.
The match
The first minutes of the match were informative, without anything remarkable happening. OR Ghoul he took quick steps on the field and was trying to threaten, to no avail. The failure of the guests was taken advantage of by Athens Kallitheawhich was slowly rising and creating some good opportunities.
In the 15th minute, the hosts had their first good moment, with Soiree to cross, o Loukinas the shot on the move, but eventually the ball went just wide. In the 22nd minute they threatened again, this time with him Mechiaswhile they marred their supremacy in a goal in the 28th minute. Specifically, Mr Effect broke into Matiyawho outside the area made the move in motion, the ball found his hand Sakor who made the tackle and ended up in the net for 1-0.
From there, his team Stelios Malezas was in control of the match and continued to be a threat, with Lamia mainly playing on the counter-attack. Somehow, Athens Kallithea went to the locker room with his team ahead Leonida Vokolou (1-0).
The home team started the second half at the same pace, with Maleza’s team scoring two goals in the 52nd minute. THE Valbuena he made an incredible cross and Loukinas with a nice header he made it 2-0. Lamia did not hesitate and took measures on the field, starting to become threatening.
In the 56th minute, Bilalwho made his debut, passed the ball to Enriquezwho narrowly missed to cut it for his team. The visitors finally reduced the score to 2-1 in the 69th minute, setting the game on fire. After a foul committed by Furtadothe ball went under his feet Baragan for 2-1!
However, things did not go well for Lamia afterwards, since in the 75th minute he saw the red card Siovasafter overthrowing him Demetriuswho had quickly gone to the counter.
OR Ghoul then pushed tooth and nail for an equaliser, however they failed, with the Athens Kallithea to keep her lead until the final (2-1) and celebrate her first victory!
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MVP: THE Mathieu Valbuena he was the most precious. The Frenchman set up Athens Kallithea’s second goal and generally constantly threatened and caused problems for his opponents.
The whistle: Polychronis did not have a difficult phase to face, while he correctly red-handed Siova for overthrowing Demetrius.
ATHENS KALLITHEA: Baragan, Soiri (77′ Manthatis), Kainourgios (77′ Hanousek), Pasalidis, Mechias, Tsivelekidis, Matiya, Ediage, Valbuena (65′ Diba), Demetrius, Loukinas (82′ Uldrikis).
GHOUL: Raton, Ring (86′ Lake), Dentakis (58′ Radonia), Siovas, Giannoutsos, Cornezos, Sakor, Sourlis (86′ Andrade), Furtado, Vlahomitros (46′ Enriques), Doiranlis (46′ Bilal).
Source: Sport Fm
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