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The day after Olympiakos’ 4-0 win over Atromitos, you read on Sport24.gr the reasons why Pedro Martins has become “enraged” and demands the same from his players. Another element of the Portuguese coach’s different approach to his team is his decision to “hide” the eleven. Wanting to keep all the players in the cheetah, but also not open his eyes to the opponents, from where he showed in training the central idea of his plan, he now mixes everything.
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He prefers not even the protagonists themselves to understand much about the original form and this tactic has been applied consistently of late. In the match against PAS in Ioannina, the information showed Fortuni, but in the end the leader came from the bench and the day before yesterday with Kanadi’s team, Costas was in the starting eleven, but also Hassan instead of El Arabi.
THE EXCHANGE OF SPIES
The necessary preface on the way to the all-important match with Marseille, where again we do not expect to be wiser through the training tests. And in Saturday’s game, after all, the 50-year-old coach did some alchemy, not to deliver the plan to the plate to the Marseille spy who was in the Karaiskakis stands.
For those who do not know, the two teams, despite the strict measures due to Covid-19, agreed to exchange envoys! Then a man from Villa Boas came to Greece, he also got a partner from Pedro Martins at the Velodrome. The two compatriots coaches are rivals for 180 minutes, but there is also the culture of football.
Against Atromitos, then, the Olympiacos coach pushed at 4-2-3-1, which worked well enough to turn it into 4-4-2 in 40 ‘with the entry of… k-Arabinas, of en a time when opponents were less due to Matic’s dismissal. In the game against Marseille, we probably won’t see any line-up at the start.
THE BASIS OF THE TRIANGLE AND COST
The most likely scenario is to see the eleven champions at 4-3-3 with the third midfielder from Bouhalakis, close to Embila and Kamara. What is not known is if “Bouha” will play alongside the Frenchman or a little further away. That is, if the base of the triangle on the axis will be towards defense or attack. Usually Martins puts “6” Embilas and in front of him Bouhalakis on the left and Kamaras on the right. Now we can see more back to the Cretan midfielder and Mandi later in a role between 8 and 10 threshing with his inexhaustible forces.
There are no serious questions about the defense. Rafinia on the right, Cholebas on the left and Semedo, Ba in the semicircle in front of José Sa. At the top of the attack is the hot El Arabi, to his left is Valbouena and to his right is Masuras or Rangelovic. You could talk about Fortunis here, but at least in the beginning, we will go for a more balanced solution in defense and attack …
The squad may stay 4-2-3-1 with Fortounis key and Bouhalakis on the bench, as happened on Saturday, but due to the difference in capacity, this scenario has much less chance at the moment.
PEPE AT THE BANK
And as there has been a lot of talk about new faces (Pepe, Vinagre, Bruma, Dreger), the question is not whether any of them will be in the starting eleven, but who or who will sit on the bench. Martins does not belong to the category of coaches who take risks. Young people have not yet received the baptism of fire and will not take it in such an important game. Not so basic at least. The fact that we are going for a trio in midfield shows that Pepe will probably be on the bench as an alternative, Dreger (or Vinagre) the same to have a sufficient reserve if something goes wrong at the ends of the defense and we go further .
This is the basic plan for Wednesday’s game, which for both teams starts from scratch in defense. Let’s not forget that this time, as with the Lobos, Olympiacos will not have their main weapon on the podium, their world that makes the stadium an oven, but in times of coronavirus it cannot be done otherwise. The truth is that the battle on the board of the two Portuguese coaches, both in the initial teams and during the game, will be of great interest …
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