Bondo/Glimt-Olympiacos: First step with the ‘8’ background for Mendilibar’s team

In the battle of Europe, Olympiacos is again thrown. His team Jose Luis Mendilibar tested in frozen Norway against Bondo/Glimt (22:00, Cosmote Sports, Bwinspor FM, www.sportfm.gr), wanting to take the first step towards qualifying in the Europa League quarter -finals.

It is certainly a powerful mating, with the Norwegians giving their presence in a knockout European competitions, while the “reds” are the champions of last season’s Conference League.

For the Bondo/Glimt Things are relatively simple. Its championship ended in early December and begins in late March. Which means that the Norwegians do not have the ideal pace, as they play mainly friendly. In the last round he managed to bring … a 2-1 defeat to Twente to the Netherlands, beating 5-2 in the extension. Strong at home, on a stadium with 8,500 spectators and has a synthetic lawn.

“In fact we are more or less ready, though we are still not sure of Brende. In addition to that, everyone else is ready »Initially said Bondo/Glimt, Kietil Knutsen, about the racing and then dropped Olympiacos: “They have a wide range of good results and many good players. A very direct group. They play with little risk and tries to create problems in half of the opposing team. It is an experienced team that won the title last year. One of the best teams we have encountered this year. “

THE Olympic For his part, he comes from another amazing week, where he approached his domestic goals significantly. He made it 3/3 in the derby, beating PAOK (2-1) and AEK (0-1) for the championship, while AEK broke 6-0 in the first semifinal. Psychology, with the “reds” securing a cup final and being at +5 from the Union in the league. Of course, in all there was some injuries, as it will be deprived of the services of El Kabi, Orta and Garcia at least in today’s match.

On the other hand, Piraeus are running an undefeated series of 26 games in all competitions. The last time they were defeated was at the end of October in Tripoli and since then the brakes have continued with broken brakes. THE Mendilibar He has managed to put the new acquisitions in the equation and overall keeps most of the roster players active. Today, he may make some changes again to refresh his team, and will want to take advantage of the fact that Bondo is playing in very high meters on the pitch.

“We only think about tomorrow’s game. Let’s go to it and after it’s over we will judge whether a tie is a good result or not. Let’s go to the game, as we go to everything, for the purpose of winning. Depending on the evolution we will judge whether the tie is a good result. We haven’t talked about the opponent at all. We have 11 very good players against us. This is the most important. Everything else is secondary »among other things, the Basque technician told a press conference.

PUBLIC ELECTORS:

Bondo/Glimt: Haikin – Sievold, Nielsen, Guedersen, Byork – Berg, Fet, Evien – Bloberg, Hog, Hawge.

OLYMPIC: Tzolakis – Rodinei, Biancon, Pirola, Ortega – Es, Mouzakitis – Zelson, Tsikinio, Velde – Kostoula.

Referee: Mikola Balakin (Ukraine)

Assistants: Olxandr Bercut (Ukraine), Dmitro Zaporosenko (Ukraine)

Fourth: Vitali Romanov (Ukraine)

VAR: Marco Di Belo (Italy), Victor Kopievski (Ukraine)