Olympiacos – Aris 1-1 (vids) | Interwetten Super League

Tonight (2/21) Faliro’s match ended without a winner, where Olympiakos conceded 1-1 to Aris after a match that didn’t have many phases and a super show, but kept the interest intact until the final. Regarding the result, the guests have every reason to feel extremely satisfied, as they were at “+3” of the 5th Panathinaikos that will play tomorrow in Agrinio.

Pedro Martins started with Sa in the end, Androutsos, Semedo, Papastathopoulos, Cholebas in defense from right to left, Bouhalakis, Kamaras in the “6-8s”, Vrousai, Masoura at the ends and Fortasounis from behind.

Akis Mantzios put Cuesta under the posts, Sakic, Rose, Delizisi, Sundgren in defense from right to left, Jego, Sasha in the axis, Mateo García, Silva in the ends, Bertolio in the “10” and Mano in the tip of the attack.

OLIMPIAKOS UP, RAISE BEWARE OF YOUR DEFENSE

The crossovers in the match and the previous provisions that were on paper, were differentiated by focus. The ‘yellows’ seemed to be concentrating on their suspensive duties and in defense Sakic often acted as third stopper and Mateo García covered the side. At the same time, in the “rojiblancos” that Bouhalakis was high, Bouhalakis seemed to play higher than Kamaras, while Fortounis was thrown towards the extremes (mainly on the right) and the extremes from there passed for the second time (initially Masouras, after the 10 ‘Brusai and after the substitution of the second again the first).

UP TO 30 ‘THE BEST MOMENT WAS NOT FINAL

The above (mainly the good defensive presence of the guests) “explains” to a great extent why in the first minutes the two teams went to a fixed game. In fact, in the first half hour, his best moment was not final, since in the 9th minute, Rose drove ahead of Masura, who was ready to “execute” at point blank range, after Hassan’s header pass. A little later (16 ‘) Cuesta in his attempt to chase a static ball, sent it back to corner near his right crossbar and … finally. The hosts with a percentage of the ball at the level of 60% also had shots that counterattack (Fortounis, Bouhalakis), while the guests who “looked for” the rival, mainly from the right, threatened with a long shot (quite good) from Sundgren . . The Swede then wanted to score a beautiful goal.

NECESSARY CHANGE BROUSAI, WITHIN VALBUENA

Somewhere, Brusai was unlucky and was substituted through injury, which brought Valbouena onto the field. Piraeus wanted to breathe a sigh of relief at the rematch with PSV and had proceeded to the rotation, but the Frenchman entered the game quite early. He went to the left, Fortounis stayed behind Hassan and Masouras returned to the right (in the 10th minute he switched sides with Vrousai), while at that moment the match was “cut and sewn” as the Thessalonians wanted. Still, on both sides, there was no substantial final in either area. But Valbouena can make a difference with “half” the energy.

THE “RED AND WHITE” … LOOKED FOR GOALS BUT PSV IN 36 ‘

After his own foul in the 36th minute (he won it himself), Bouhalakis wanted to score with a projection in a phase similar to his first Atletico goal against Eindhoven, but Cuesta was not surprised and led to a corner. The one who hit Fortunis and Hassan with a header sent the ball slightly out. Now the hosts were threatening inside the opponent’s “box”.

NICE FINAL FORTOUNIS FOR 1-0, THE “MIDDLE” END WAS BY ANDROUTSOU

So we got to 41 ‘, when they opened the scoring. Excellent sting from Valbouena for Cholebas who turned around and crossed for Masoura at the far post. The 27-year-old made the shot and yes, Cuesta reacted correctly, he passed the ball to Androutsos who “cut it” for Fortounis and sent it to the net. Nice finish for the international midfielder, but the “half” goal came from the 24-year-old defender to assist him.

PAPASTATHOPOULOS “SAVED” THE 1-1, BUT WAS HURT

But the first half still had a lot … bread and Aris “flirted” with the draw. In a foul by Bertolio, Semedo, Sa got confused and after a header from the Portuguese stopper, the ball went towards the goal. Papastathopoulos expelled her with self-sacrifice and Sakic’s new head came out, while at the same time Sokratis appeared to be injured. Semedo involuntarily hit him on the chin while from the fall he seemed to have pain in his shoulder, they offered him first aid but it was impossible to continue and the ‘rojiblancos’ finished the first half with 10. In the delays Aris even pressed, but could not take advantage your numerical advantage.

HOLEBAS STOPPER, THE SECOND HALF BEGAN WITH RHYTHM

During the break, the hosts replaced the injured Papastathopoulos with Reabciuk and Cholebas was in the cap, teammates with Semedo and the Ukrainian on the far left of the defense. At the same time, Aris was ready to go ahead and in the first minutes of the second half the match had a rhythm, in contrast to the time period corresponding to the start of the match. The ‘yellows’ came out 2-3 times in the transition with Silva, the ‘rojiblancos’ played mostly from the left with Valbouena (from then on a good began, for Piraeus, Kamaras ‘moment in 57’) and in these conditions we reached an hour of play.

BRUNO GIVEN ARIS ENERGY

Then we had the first “voluntary” interventions from the benches, after the forced changes (2) of the hosts had preceded. Martins, obviously taking into account the rematch with PSV, put Thiago to “tighten” his midfield more (the 28-year-old was shooting to the left, Ranzelovic who entered at that time went to the right and Valbouena went more to the axis ), while Mantzios “refreshed” his trio behind the for. The entrance of Bruno gave energy to the ‘yellows’ and in fact in 63′ he approached 1-1, when he was in shooting position but Androutsos put him against it. At the same time, the ‘rojiblancos’ were dangerous in the static balls that they won since Valbouena made very good shots (threatened with a direct execution, “fixed” Hassan’s phase in 67′) and the match was a derby, already than the “yellows” »Now had marginal and occupation (53% -47%). The hosts sought to manage the advantage they had and the guests sought phase “one” to reach a draw.

THE “YELLOW” CHANGES PRESENTED 1-1