With Zarouri and two changes, Benitez’s first eleven at Panathinaikos

THE Panathinaikos welcomes him Asteras Aktor at “Apostolos Nikolaidis”, in the context of the 8th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League.

With him Rafa Benitez to do debut and to end up with the players who will start in the original formation of the “greens” in the match against the Arcades, carrying out two changes in relation to the recent game with the Feyenoordusing them Zaruri and Chiriveya instead of Kotsira-Siopis.

Specifically, Panathinaikos will compete with a system 4-2-3-1. Dragovski will sit in goal, with Calabria, Ingason, Touba and Kyriakopoulos four in defense. Ciriveja and Cerin will compete in the axis, while Tete and Zaruri will be on the wings and Djuricic behind Sviderski, who plays at the top of the attack.

At the same time, in bench of the “greens” will be Lafon, Kotsaris, Palmer-Brown, Mladenovic, Fikai, Kotsiras, Siopis, Sanchez, Mancini, Tamborda, Geremegev and Padovic.

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From there on, his 11 Starwhich also “descends” with 4-2-3-1 consists of Papadopoulos, Alho, Ivanov, Triantafyllopoulos, Fernandes, Yablonski, Tsiko, Ketou, Bartolo, Emmanuelidis and Makeda.

While him bench among the guests are Angelidis, Archontakakis, Siptsits, Tzandaris, Joakini, Ender, Mumo, Mendieta, Pomonis, Charalamboglou and Almyras.

ASTERAS AKTOR’s starting XI for the match against Panathinaikos????#asterasaktor #asterastripolisfc #startinglineup #matchday8 #paoast #wearealltogether pic.twitter.com/KFcVmpS1zW

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