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Head down, AEK is leaving this year’s Europa League following their 2-0 defeat to Leicester in England in the sixth game.
With the sole aim of gaining impressions, the Union went from mediocre to poor, lacking focus and plan on defense, found itself losing early and eventually succumbed to Leicester’s superiority.
Uder opened the scoring in the 12th minute after a serious error by Svarna, which leveled the ball, while in the 14th minute Barnes, taking advantage of a fight against his defenders, saw the ball go into the net. “Dikefalos” did not manage for a moment to pressure the hosts and finished in last place with 3 points.
The match
Like last week against Braga, tonight AEK managed to get out of the game before it got off to a good start. With the Portuguese they lost 2-0 in 10΄, with Leicester in 15΄! In the 12th minute Svarnas “kicked into the air” and Uder opened the scoring with a powerful shot, while in the 14th minute Barnes fired, the ball changed course over Nedelcearou and ended up in the nets of Tsintotas.
In general, the entire first half was an answer to those who wondered if there could be a worse AEK, after the games with Braga and Panathinaikos. Yes maybe! Opposing an experimental team from Leicester without its big stars (of the eleven they are Schmeichel, Vardy, Madison, Medi, Albrighton, Fuchs), the Union had no inspiration. He made only one last attempt and changed only 96 passes (about 2 per minute), he passed the cross a couple of times and again it was good that Tsintotas had two difficult saves before the end of time.
The second half of the game was like training for the “Foxes”. The looming victory secured them top spot in the group and there was no reason to risk or tire of back-to-back Premier League games on Saturday (with Brighton) and Monday (with Everton). Carrera changed the formation from 3-5-2 to 4-2-3-1 with Sachhoff replacing Svarna and AEK ran, pressed, tried to leave Leicester with his head held high. But it was too late. The fact that you have finished the second part with a final effort is an indicative ending of a tragic European experience.
Leicester-AEK 2-0
LESTER (Brendan Rodgers): Ward, Justin, Fofana (82΄ Morgan), Evans, Thomas, Praet, Eddie (63΄ Medi), Tillemans (82΄ Chonduri), Uder, Barnes, Ianazzo (67)
AEK (Massimo Carrera): Tsintotas, Hnid, Svarnas (56΄ Sakhof), Nedelcearou, Mitai, Kristicic, Simoes (81΄ Galanopoulos), Mandalos (66΄ Albanis), Vasilantonopoulos, García (55 (Machairas) Oliveira)
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