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Bag, fatigue, stubbornness. These three words accompanied the return of the Marseille Olympic delegation after the surprise based on the match image, Marseille 2-1. The ‘rojiblancos’ did not hide their discontent in the locker room while talking about the Spanish referee Manthanos, who on two occasions through the VAR raised the ball to 11 steps resulting in the loss of a match that they had under total control.
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Apart from the two decisions that brought penalties and ups and downs at a competitive level, without Marseille being better than Olympiakos, the ‘rojiblancos’ had complaints in general about Manthanos’ decisions, considering that he did bad refereeing and hurt them in several phases in the flow of the race.
MARTINS: “WE HAVE PROCEEDED …”
“We were very good, they didn’t threaten us at all, we were more likely to score a second goal than to concede“It was a typical attack that was heard on the return trip and the locker rooms, as if it were 0-1 a little more, they estimate that the hosts would be forced to take risks and leave more holes in the back.
Pedro Martins, however, did not stop there. You think anger is a bad counselor. He asked everyone to forget what happened in Marseille and to watch the next matches with Volos for the championship and Porto. He had good words for the performance of his team and made sure not only to calm his players, but to ask for even more effort in the games that follow, as the season is still a long way off. “Come on guys, let’s carry on …”, the coach used to say in English on the sidelines of the afternoon training.
LOST, TIAGO AND MAYBE BROUMA
The mission of the champions arrived in the afternoon at “Eleftherios Venizelos” and followed a program at the Renti sports center. Recovery for those who played, training for the break and returns for the game with Volos on Saturday afternoon (19.30). At the disposal of Pedro Martins, who is preparing changes to “refresh” the team, will be Ahmed Hassan, Thiago Silva, while there are possibilities that Bruma could enter the 20s, but this will be clarified in the last training session.
At the administrative level and at the time of writing this report, there had been no mood or decision to follow up or make any move to UEFA on the occasion of what happened in Marseille, while Gidogan’s foul on Dreger had preceded City 0- 1 in Faliro. Of course, many times, and at this level, what happens is not announced …
It is a fact, however, that what happened at “Velontrom” has “taken away” motivation for next week’s match with Porto at “Karaiskakis”. The spirit of the players and the technical team is to turn irritation into extra drive and motivation, for Olympiakos to seal the continuation of their course in the Europa League, with a victory against Porto. A victory that, in addition to its importance for the future of the team and its prestige, will also bring a significant amount to the players. Each victory is rewarded by the administration with one million euros, as Marinakis announced orally some time ago.
However, it is preceded by the championship match against a team that is too tough to die, as he demonstrated in his midweek match with Apollon in Rizoupoli that made him sting the point (3-3), while he lost 3-0 . Sure there will be changes, but the final decisions will be made by Pedro Martins in training on Friday.
THE QUESTIONS
There are footballers, however, who have been very busy lately. Fortounis has been playing consecutively for a month, Embila runs non-stop in every game, Rafinha played injured and out of breath in a series of difficult games, El Arabi was selected for two games as a key player despite not being prepared, due to a coronavirus.
For all this, the Portuguese coach is rethinking and preparing new faces, in order to properly distribute the deck in the two games that follow between Saturday and next Wednesday, aiming for two wins and six points.
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