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For the new … ideal situation in the Greece Cup, Olympiakos made a detailed announcement yesterday (here), analyzing and highlighting everything.
I only want To add-clarify something, because there is a reference to the announcement about the prohibition of the presence of an Olympiacos representative in the draw, “although he repeatedly requested it.” T. Agrafiotis, one of the vice-presidents of the association but also a member of the executive committee of the EPO, was the one who both on the eve and before the draw contacted M. Gavriilidis of the EPO and expressed his persistent desire to attend the lottery, but the answer he received from the lottery manager was, “don’t come, they won’t let you pass” !!!
And it matters This observation, because the EPO in its own call states that “we had informed all the teams since Wednesday about the path of the draw and no team returned.” However, as is clear from the Olympiakos report, there was one team that “came back” twice. If the relevant information and communication, twice, between Agrafiotis and Gavriilidis is not valid, let the EPO deny it …
There, however, What I would like to dwell on today is mainly something else: the EPO did not stop there, it is not only that it prohibited the Olympiacos representative from seeing the draw, it was also that he was going to schedule the first Olympiacos-Mars match on Thursday 11th of the month , something that in Olympiakos was considered a scandal and they fought not to happen. The people in the club’s management reacted immediately and with specific actions of the team manager Thodoris Kokkinakis prevented this development.
To the point and this forces me to write that he played a role in changing the EPO’s plans and the attitude of the subscription channel – in his honor Cosmote Tv did not insist on Thursday and agreed to play the game on Wednesday, while realistically the set played a role The atmosphere that had been created for the draw, which the day before had been predicted, as everyone now knows, by one of the Olympiacos vice-presidents, K. Karapapas, something unprecedented in the history of the Cup. That is to say, in the EPO realized that it was no longer possible to pull the rope, putting Olympiakos to play on Thursday …
To explain here that a match of the quarter-final phase has already been set for Thursday 11.2, PAS-Panathinaikos. It was only set on Thursday, because it couldn’t be done otherwise, that is, it couldn’t be played on Wednesday, since on Monday PAS has a championship match and it is not possible for a team to play on Monday and Wednesday.
Being defined Olympiakos-Aris on Thursday, meant that Olympiakos would lose the advantage of occasionally having to have one more day of rest than Panathinaikos, in view of the derby between them next Sunday 14.2-now the “greens” will have the disadvantage of fatigue during a day and the trip to Ioannina. But even more serious for the Greek champion was that Olympiacos would be forced to play in a week, from Thursday to Thursday, three very important matches: with Aris 11.2 for the Cup, with PAO 14.2 for the championship and with Eindhoven 18.2 for the Europa League. !
Commonly, the EPO would create a problem for Olympiakos, the only Greek team still in Europe, and it would create it only in view of their first European match! In fact, at the time there was no reason for Olympiacos-Aris to be designated Thursday, as both Olympiacos and Aris had matches on Sunday 7.2 with Sunday 14.2, so no one was favored or aggrieved. At least now Olympiacos will play these three great games in eight days, from Wednesday to Thursday. Wednesday 10.2 with Aris, Sunday 14.2 with PAO and Thursday 18.2 with Eindhoven. One more day it is more and more a team, a coach wins.
This is also something when we talk about Greek football, EPO, “consolidation”, etc., etc.
Otherwise, I am open to any clarification of the EPO. If any of this is not true, let it out and disprove it. However, the Olympiakos report says these things.
By the way, and because Olympiakos in their long announcement makes the comment that during the consolidation, that is, for the last six years, AEK and PAOK have never tied in the Cup, I took a look at the past of the draws of the two . teams in the tournament. So they were drawn …
In 2012 only PAOK-AEK match 2-0
In 2011 double matches AEK-PAOK 0-0 and PAOK-AEK 0-1
In 2003 double matches AEK-PAOK 0-1 and PAOK-AEK 1-1
In 2002 in double matches AEK-PAOK 2-1 and PAOK-AEK 0-4
So speaking of the last 20 years, they had been drawn four times, with two qualifiers from AEK and two from PAOK.
Irrelevant: You see, I imagine the report of the popular in Brazil Globo about Sao Paulo and Martins. Just three days ago I wrote from this angle:
Do not doubt that the success in Brazil of both Zeus, who won the double with Flamengo last year, and the Copa Libertadores, and Abel Ferreira, who won the Libertadores this year with Palmeiras, sent the Portuguese actions ahead of the Portuguese. .in the country of Pelé. And some teams have a lot of money. Candidates for the great Brazilian teams (Flamengo, Sao Paulo, Gremio), Vitor Pereira, Leonardo Zardim and Marco Zilva, all champions with Olympiakos, are already mentioned. And I think Pedro Martins may also have mathematical problems in the near future, with the great success he has at Olympiakos. With the difference, of course, that unlike the previous ones, who are free, Pedro has another one-year contract with Olympiakos, until the summer of 2022, and specifically with exit clauses with huge amounts… ”.
You saw how quickly the evaluation I presented was justified. It was… mathematically certain that they would put Pedro at bay as well. However, it is true what I wrote at the end, about exit clauses with huge amounts. Let’s say I don’t think Martins’ next coaching dream is to go to Brazil. I may be wrong, but since Abel Ferreira from PAOK did it and went there, I’m not entirely sure that Martins would do the same, to go from the Champions League to Olympiakos. Of course, this is my sentiment, not information.
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