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We are talking about a fiasco. AEK and PAOK were not simply excluded from the Europa League, they experienced football humiliations. They showed how far our football is.
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AEK to receive 4 home goals from Braga and last week three from Zoria, PAOK, not being able to beat Omonia in two games this year, I don’t think there will be much lower. With these results, they condemned Greek football, for many years, to watch the Europa League, only on television.
WE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
To understand the downstream, AEK ate 3 at home last week, from Zoria. From a team that is currently in eighth place in the Ukrainian championship. In a 14-team league, after 10 games, Zoria is 3-5-2 in the league. AEK, however, resurrected him, the Ukrainians won the match against him after 31 days.
Yesterday it was PAOK’s turn to give joy to a team that could not manage consecutive games. Omonia was not ready to collapse, she had already collapsed. He counted a series of 9 games, without winning in all competitions, with a 0-4-5 record.
In the Cyprus championship they are in 7th place, with a 4-5-2 record and yet PAOK managed to lose. Omonia experienced the joy of victory for the first time since October 18.
THE LEVEL OF GREEK FOOTBALL HAS DOWN A LOT
How much the level of Greek football has dropped can be understood by the fact that our two representatives, who have lost since the eighth of the Ukrainian championship and the seventh of the Cypriot championship, have been parading in our championship lately. One victory after another they achieve it.
Pablo García, who made two incomprehensible changes at halftime, counts 4 consecutive victories, since the day he took office, runs a series of 4 victories and Carrera, whose presence has been associated with two humiliating consecutive European nights.
But what we are talking about, here our National Team has reached the point, of participating in the lower categories, of losing the first place of a group, of Slovenia and of considering that the federal coach is successful.
THREE TO FOUR
But let’s not go. It’s one of those moments when things get more complicated. For example, it cannot be tolerated that AEK in two home games, even in this condition with empty stadiums, conceded 7 goals from Zoria and Branga.
AEK has played very large sizes in the past and has not been humiliated. There can be no excuse. It seemed, from the first game and since the 3-0 defeat in Braga, that the beans do not come out and the classification will be lost. AEK, however, in front of Zoria and Braga is great, it has history, it cannot go from three to four.
The coaches who work in our country must also understand that they do not coach Tottenham and Milan. Neither Greek football nor the clubs have the right to score points in Europe, nor is there a squad capable of responding to these matches, if there are constant changes and if there is not the necessary concentration for European matches.
HUGE RACE RESPONSIBILITY
Carrera bears a great responsibility for the way he handled both games. Due to the fact that he did not permanently use his starting eleven in the tournament and of course because of the lack of concentration that his players had. At the beginning of the match with Braga, they took a step the other way and were elsewhere.
Some things are strange, I don’t know what else needs to be done to make AEK understand that Vasilantonopoulos is better than Paulinho, Bakakis. How Oliveira is at a terrible level of play and does significant damage to the entire team. It is not only the extreme opportunities that he loses, but his general attitude, in the game, which is not capable of making the slightest bit of positive energy at the moment.
The 13 goals are passive, the group where AEK is located does not justify them with anything. The only way to atone for Massimo Carrera is to keep his team in the championship battle until the very end, otherwise I’m afraid this year’s European fiasco will pay for it.
HARAKIRI
But let’s go to PAOK, who had luck in their hands, a very passable opponent to keep him strong in the qualifying game and they created a scandal.
Pablo García chose the European Games to give young Cigarrillo the opportunity to play with the key players. Of course he pushes hard, because he had him on his team, he knows his pros and cons.
PROBLEM IN POSITION 6
But it doesn’t happen like that, you need a balance. Especially when we talk about position 6, which in football is the most crucial. First you put Tsigaras with the main team, in a passable game of the Greek championship, which may not have pressure, when he gets the first pass, he will have space and time to make decisions and feel safe.
Garcia put him first in Holland. Eindhoven was pushing high and the ball couldn’t get out of the PAOK defense. Garcia’s defenders were trapped for long periods deep in the area and there was no escape and the 0-2 turned into fun and became 3-2.
Garcia is very dear to PAOK and rightly so they want to support him. It is logical and to the benefit of the team that the result of the match with Eindhoven was not generalized. In modern football, results change easily, but the 0-2 reversal is rarely so relaxing.
MAY NOT DEFENSE AGAINST TEAMS THAT PLAYED WITHOUT OFFENSIVE
Here comes the match with Omonia, again Tsingaras is key, this time against a defensive duo, with two players who are not in good individual condition. Be careful, I do not want to be misunderstood, the child has no responsibility, I easily explain, that some decisions are made. The result was that PAOK, with the fat duo of Varela, Crespo and the immature Tsigaras ahead, had no defensive security, against a team that played without a striker.
Omonia in her plan, never had the logic to threaten. He went down with a 5-4-1, which very quickly turned into a clear 5-5-0. And yet the lack of security at position 6, combined with the extremely slow reactions of the defensive duo, gave any Omonia footballer passing vertically through the center the right to get dangerous. There’s no way Berg’s team has been this close to goal so many times in this year’s game. One player passing the center with the ball was enough to become dangerous.
THE TWO HALF CHANGES WERE INCORRECT
Pablo García is a new coach and it is natural that he needs some time to mature as a coach. From a very young age, he has shown that he is intrusive during games. But when you go so frequently, in a lot of changes in the middle of the time, it goes without saying that you are not doing something right in your original plan and it is natural that at some point you will make them a salad.
We arrived in Cyprus on the day of the salad. It doesn’t make sense for Wage and Schwarb to come out. Gianoulis was probably planned to come in as a change at halftime. Respectful and reasonable, the coach wants to give time to the highest quality winger, who we all know how positively he can influence the team. However, it didn’t make sense for Vage to come out, he was a permanent source of energy and from his own ups and downs, all the attacks came in the first part of the PAOK.
Vage has no technique and that is why at first he was insulted by people who judged with indifference. However, he is a very athletic extreme back, who can easily win duels, continue his attack, outrun his opponent and make many promotions.
In the first half, we constantly saw PAOK taking advantage of Zifkovic’s quality, the Serbian’s ability to keep the ball in difficult areas and Vage’s athleticism. The right side was the weapon of PAOK, the space that built the collaborations. There was no reason to spoil her and keep Rodrigo permanently invisible in the field.
Nor was it logical for Schwarb to leave the field. In a game that, to win it, it was very important to find the balance in the center and the right so that PAOK could stay high safely, he took out the footballer who creates security.
THE FIRST SERIOUS TEST FOR GARCÍA
Without a doubt it was a bad day at work for Pablo García, surely others will come, that is the nature of the profession. The coach is judged by the way he handles bad situations and by the level his team can be.
That is why it is very important, now that the first strong bracelet has arrived, to show that you can support your team. On Sunday he receives Asteras, in a match without margin of error, then there is the procedural match with Granada and in 2020 he closes with two derbies. In Toumba with Panathinaikos and Vikelidis.
RACE WITHOUT MARGINS
The situation is certainly more difficult for Carrera. As he received two multiple shocks that are not easy to digest and has in front of him, a very difficult program. On Sunday he will go to the derby with Panathinaikos under pressure.
This is followed on Thursday by a dangerous match due to a new clash in Leicester, then Rizoupoli with Apollon, a home derby with Olympiakos and in 2020 it closes at home with Volos. The new year opens with a derby in Karaiskakis. I repeat, based on the conditions that have been formed, Massimo Carrera is obliged to maintain his position, to be within shooting range from the top.
The sequel will be interesting, the Europa League, the Greek teams will see it for years on television. The only way to participate will be when the champion does not qualify for the Champions League groups. We should not be sad, the stadium showed that this is our level.
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