2023-09-30 11:14:57
With significant shortages of key players, PAS Ioannina will welcome Olympiakos tomorrow at 20:30 at the “Zosimades” stadium for the 7th matchday of the championship. The suspended Eramouspe (yellow cards), Karahalios (dismissal in Serres) and Rienstra who is injured from the game against Panathinaikos will be absent. Gino also picked up three yellow cards and they will decide today whether he will serve the penalty tomorrow against Olympiakos, as he competed without being completely well in Serres doing a conservative program yesterday, or in some other match. Garo also had a problem, but yesterday afternoon he trained normally. The above players are among the so-called…keys of the team, competing in key positions. Eramouspe with Pantelakis were the pillars of the defense as stoppers. Bakadimas, who has not played time until now, will have to play. Karahalios and Gino are the two defensive midfielders who do all the work. Hard to find equal replacements, if Gino doesn’t play tomorrow in a very small roster with few alternatives that keep Staikos’ hands tied. Liassos, who is a defensive midfielder, will start from the beginning and depending on what is decided for Gino, the next move will depend. For the central midfielder position that Rienstra is missing, Staikos out of necessity puts in Garo who is aggressive, but he also looked tired in Serres and doesn’t even have the strength to play 90 minutes. Otherwise he will anoint Jima ten and put Rosero left midfielder.
Essentially, he will face the strongest and most in-form team in Greece, as Olympiacos is at the moment, with an emergency eleven and at a time when fatigue hit red. In yesterday’s game against Panserraikos, PAS had many problems as a team and with most of the players below average. Since there is no depth on the bench and Staikos does not have the ability to rotate, using the same players in almost every game, it is logical that there will be fatigue.
The midweek game against Panserraikos, with a long journey, was a bad moment for “Ajax of Epirus”. Apart from the shortcomings, the goalkeeper Kleiman was also unstable in the last two games against PAOK and Panserraiko, conceding some goals from his own mistakes which made things even more difficult. And for the position under the goalposts there is a question mark if the deformed Kleiman will sit or if Athanasiou will be the starter.
According to all the above, PAS’ mission in tomorrow’s game against Olympiacos is extremely difficult. Yesterday there was a training session in the afternoon at PEAKI, while the same will take place this afternoon in the same place, in the effort that Staikos is making to get some things together.
POSSIBLE ELEVEN
For tomorrow’s game against Olympiakos, any assessment of the formation of the eleven is a bit compromised due to the absences and deformation of key players. Possible lineup: Kleiman, Soria, Tsaousis, Pantelakis, Bakadimas, Liassos, Kiakos, Tzimas, Pamlidis, Rosero, Balan. The coach will also have Conte, Athanasiou, Al. Lolis, Leo, Garo (if he’s good), Bortagarai, Panagou, Naoumis, Eford. There is also the question mark with Gino who has problems and at the same time completed three cards.
REFEREE MANOUCHOS
The match between PAS and Olympiacos that will take place on Sunday in Ioannina (8:30 p.m.) will be directed by Evangelos Manouhos of the Argolida association. His assistants will be Polychronis Kostaras (Aitoloakarnania) and Lazaros Dimitriadis (Macedonia). Fourth will be Andreas Gamaris (Athens). VAR will be Ioannis Papadopoulos (Macedonia) with Georgios Christakoglou (Halkidiki) AVAR. The observer will be Charalambos Karatzas (Evia).
THE PREHISTORY
Tomorrow’s match will be the 28th match between the two teams for the First National Championship. In the previous 27 matches (26 for the championship and 1 for the playoffs), from 1974 until now, there have been 7 wins for PAS, 9 draws and 11 wins for Olympiakos. “Ajax of Epirus” is one of the few provincial teams of this scope, which have won 7 times against Olympiakos. Last year the PAS – Olympiacos match ended in a 2-2 draw at the “Zosimades” stadium and took place on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Olympiacos led 0-2 with two goals from Fortounis and PAS tied 2-2 with goals from Pamlidis and Liassos.
THE PROGRAM
7th COMPETITION
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1
15.00 Lamia – Panaitolikos (COSMOTEsport 1)
16.30 Volos – Panseraikos postponed
17.30 Aris – Kifissia (NOVAsports prime)
19.30 Panathinaikos – PAOK (COSMOTEsport 1)
20.30 PAS Ioannina – Olympiacos (NOVAsports prime)
MONDAY OCTOBER 2
18.00 Atromitos – Asteras Tripoli (NOVAsports prime)
20.00 OFI – AEK (COSMOTEsport 1)
THE GRADING
(6th Tournament)
Olympiakos 16
PAOK 13
Panathinaikos 9
Panseraikos 9
OFI 9
AEK 8
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Mars 7
Asteras Tripoli 7
Lamia 6
PAS Ioannina 5
Kifissia 5
Panaitolikos 3
Fearless 2
Volos 2
NB: The first six teams will play playoff games, to determine the champion and the teams that will go to Europe.
-The last eight teams will play play-off matches, where the last two will be relegated directly to the Second National League.
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