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For the umpteenth time, during training prior to an important match, AEK lost a key player. How we got to the point where the “last” in the block hierarchy last summer, being considered a painful loss of the starting eleven, admits to himself failures and unfortunate moments. On the other hand, the development of an 18-year-old is rewarded, in the first essentially serious professional season of his career.
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Ziga Laci is alone for the third time this season, a victim of a muscle injury. One more proof that the work started with errors last summer in the management of the players and continues with them. It is no coincidence that players are looking for solutions to muscle problems that concern even private doctors, like recently a foreign player from the team who was told elsewhere at AEK that he was and was found elsewhere for a special recovery. But this is a separate piece and we will return with specific references.
Let’s go to today. The loss of the Slovenian central defender may impose rationality in the thinking of Manolo Jiménez, regarding the formation of the eleventh team for the match with Olympiakos (04/04, 19:30, Novasports1). The simultaneous absence of Nmitro Czigrinski reduces the options for the remaining plugs to just three, one of which, Tunisian Nassim Hind, should logically be considered the last, if not the unattainable solution.
SVARNAS IN HIS POSITION AND DANSENKO IN … HIS?
From the moment in which the placement of Nedelciaro and Svarna in the center of the defense, so that there is a relative balance based on the existing options – although both rarely do well as a duo – it is considered the most logical or even imperative, the scenario is rejected repositioning the second in the role of right back because Bakakis will be absent, something that Manolo Jiménez had given as a priority for tonight’s match with Olympiakos. The loss of Lachi forces him to present a normal defensive quartet.
So Svarnas in his place and Oleg Nanchensko in … his? The question arises about the competitive identity of the Ukrainian himself and what he should / can be on the field, but from the moment he was acquired as a right-back, he should be used as such. The next choice is Stavros Vasilantonopoulos, a player who in these years of joint presence at AEK, Himeneth never considered capable of even being on the team’s roster. However, he is a normal right back. From there, we go to … weird!
ALTERNATIVES AND THE “MIRROR” TEST
What else could the Spaniard do that would surely provoke a lot of negative discussions? 1) Putting Svarna on the right and Hnid next to Nedeltsiarou, which would be a very risky choice. 2) Change the line-up to 3-5-2, simultaneously using the remaining 3 center-backs and giving up the right back to Danchenko, who is actually better in this position. So Garcia will move to the top of the attack. 3) Play with 3-4-3, to have an attack with “wings” and send them in a role outside the left. It’s convenient because you only have 2 midfielders available for 90 minutes, Simanski and Krsticic.
The third alternative is the one that was tested in the last training session. In this case, the eleven will be made up of Athanasiadis, Svarna, Hnid. Nedeljiaru, Danchenko, Lopez, Krsticic, Simanski, Mandalo, García and Ansarifard u Oliveira. There is a small, very small chance that Tankovic will start on the left instead of Mandalo.
With Spanish you can expect everything and it is definitely squeezed to find the right solution. Even when he chooses the most paradoxical, in his own reasoning he does what he considers most successful at the moment, to lead AEK to something good. Jiménez has always been for this and is always interested in what he will do before an important match and how it will go.
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