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When Massimo Carrera insisted on the acquisition of Gevgen Sakhof, you had read Contra.gr’s speech. The competitive elements available to the Ukrainian midfielder gave the Italian coach the tactical flexibility to test forms and distributions, placing players with different characteristics at his side depending on the needs of the game. That is why the Union proceeded to acquire it, Sakhof being a key pillar in its coach’s plans, as far as the midfield axis is concerned. And it is that in the match between AEK and OFI for the seventh match of the Interwetten Super League, the 29-year-old midfielder demonstrated in training the reason that is necessary in his team’s eleven.
The party started in an ideal way for the guests. Sturgeon with a one-piece shot inside the area defeated Tsintotas only in the 6th minute, raising the difficulty level of the local effort. Oliveira and Livagia were on the bench, Mandalos, Tankovic and Macheiras were on Ansarifard’s back, however, the ‘yellow-blacks’ could not find rhythm and collaborations to seek a tie. On the contrary, the OFI seemed dangerous when it found seats in the opposition, but in turn did not have the correct final decisions.
In fact, an oligarchy in defense cost him the lead. On a Mandalos foul, Romanian Nedelcearu caught Waterman and tied with a header at 1-1. The 24-year-old, born in Bucharest plug, shows quite good data at the beginning of his career with the AEK jersey and in this case he gave a solution at a time when his team did not seem able to decipher the goal riddle.
The hosts could have taken the lead in the locker room, but a moving shot from Macheiras inside the box in the 44th minute was stopped by Waterman’s crossbar. The OFI goalkeeper stopped the AEK winger in the 52nd minute, chasing him impressively into a corner. Giorgos Simos decided to push his team back, take AEK high on the field and hit the opponent. With the visitors gathered a few meters away and despite his changes, Massimo Carrera saw his players have possession of the ball but without creating pressure and real opportunities.
AEK would need something special to be overthrown and that came from Gevgen Sakhov’s feet on 74 ‘. After grabbing the ball vertically from Mandalo, the Ukrainian midfielder wonderfully avoided Sturgeon and ideally placed Waterman for 2-1.
Sakhof is not a fast midfielder, this is one of the disadvantages of his game. However, he is very quick in his decisions on the field, a skill that allows him to camouflage the handicap on his feet. His composure and the way he reads his phases allow him to contribute to goals and creation very often. This is the second element in which Massimo Carrera had found a fault in his central midfield.
To put it bluntly, Andre Simoes has 19 goals and 11 assists in 332 official matches of his career. Nenad Krsticic has 31 goals and 13 assists in 318 games. Costas Galanopoulos, a midfielder who is distinguished by his inhibitory virtues anyway, has 106 games with 5 goals and 1 assist in his career. Damian Simanski shows relative consistency in his numbers, as he has 14 goals and 15 assists in the 164 official matches he has played so far.
In these numbers, Yevgeny Sakhof has 41 goals and 23 assists in 293 official appearances in his career. The difference is obvious. If Nedelcearou was Earl of AEK in the OAKA match, the Ukrainian midfielder was the dracula who drank OFI’s blood, keeping the ‘yellow-blacks’ at a distance of 3 points from the top.
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