Volos made it three out of three in the playouts with Asechnoun scoring a beautiful goal and giving the victory to his team. The Magnesia team took an important step to stay and now put Panaitolikos in a difficult position after the victory of Kifissia in Tripoli.
Volos also passed Agrinio as they beat Panaitolikos 1-0 with a goal from Ashenoun in the first half, made it three out of three in the playouts and found themselves +4 from the relegation zone and took an important step to stay in the category.
On the contrary, the team of Agrinio, after its defeat by Volos and at the same time the victory of Kifisia over Asteras, has now found itself in the position that leads to relegation and on Saturday it will go to Kifisia to give a “final” against the team of Northern Suburbs.
The xgoals of the match Panaitolikos – Volos SPORT24/OPTA
The visitors managed to score in their first really good moment with a great goal by Ashenoun in the 29th minute and from then on the match became a rodeo.
The home team changed their system to 4-4-2, played a full attack, had a post, in the second half they closed the Volos team in their frames, made one final after another but failed to breach Kovacs’ goal with the 0-1 to stay until the end of the match.
Both teams finished the game with ten players as initially in stoppage time Alho saw a straight red for a hard foul on Bouzoukis while a few minutes later Mladen was sent off with a second yellow and both footballers will miss their teams’ next game.
In the first 45 minutes without a goal, the Volos team had another good moment to double their goals in the 42′, but Garcia from the height of the small area sent the ball just outside the right post of Chavez.
The hosts responded in the next minute when a free kick from the left reached the second post to Oikonomou who from a diagonal position from the height of the small area shot wide.
While in the 45th minute, Panaitolikos had a crossbar. When in the period of time in the area, Facundo Peres made the projection with the ball stopping on the right post of the Volos goal.
In the second half, the team of Yannis Petrakis tried to pressure the defense of Volos who played in a fairly low block with the aim of defending the advantage score.
In the 59th minute, Huanpi made the shot with Kovacs punching the ball away and keeping it 0-1 for his team. In the 89th minute, Panaitolikos came close to 1-1 when Lemonako received the ball after a foul, he made a diagonal shot with the ball going just outside the left post.
Three minutes later, Lemonaco again made a shot towards the goal with Kovacs blocking, while in 95′ the same player found himself in a shooting position in the area, he made the shot with the visitors’ goalkeeper making a save.
The statistics and top performances in Panaitolikos – Volos SPORT24/OPTA
Panaitolikos: Chaves, Oikonomou, Mladen, Stagic (46′ Hatzitheodoridis), Mavrias (86′ Bruno Duarte), Torrejon, Peres, Fr. Duarte, Huanpi, Karelis (54′ Lemonako), Dias (78′ Bouzoukis)
VOLOS: Kovacs, Alho, Kalogeropoulos, Sielis, Luna, Barrientos (63′ Trouillet), Glavcic, Koba (85′ Bertolio), Mygas, Asechnoun (85′ Popescu), Garcia (76′ Moraitis).