The Piraeus team reduced the difference between “Dikephalos” and “Dikephalos” to one point, while the two teams have one less game between them.
Medilibar lined up its team with eight changes compared to the eleven that started at “Sukru Saratsoglu” and strained playing two hours against Fenerbahce.
The Spanish coach chose to freshen up his team as on Wednesday (24/4) he follows a packed match with an away match against Aris.
Even so, however, Olympiacos were cohesive, compact and started with their usual tactics, pressing from above. At the same time, his teammates were looking for Navarro with balls in the back of the defense.
The tactic paid off as the Spanish forward twice beat Kotarski with fine finishes, but his habit of playing on the edge of offside saw his goals (correctly) disallowed in the 10th and 15th minutes.
In the 25th minute, the Portuguese Nogueira showed the penalty spot for marking Koulierakis to the active Navarro. Podense took over his execution in the 27th minute, Kotarski fell to his left corner and saved but Kini proved to be the fastest of all and taking the rebound opened the scoring.
Navarro had a good but missed header in the 29th minute from Kini’s cross, while PAOK made his presence felt in the 43rd minute, when a mistake by Ciquinho in the midfield gave the visitors the opportunity to counterattack with Zivkovic, his shot which the Olympiakos midfielder “blocked” by correcting his mistake.
With the Piraeus team continuing to dominate in the second half, the “red and whites” doubled their lead in the 61st minute with Gelson Martin’s first goal for the “reds” after an excellent counter-attack and an assist by Podense, while the PAOK people complained about a foul at the start of the phase.
In the 70th minute, a shot by Podense, who was very good in the second half, went wide. “Two-Headed” threatened in the 77′ with Baba and in the next minute with Koulierakis in a corner kick, for the visitors to finally reduce in the 90’+2 with Markos Antonio.
REFEREE: Miguel Nogueira (Portugal)
YELLOW: Abby – Koulierakis, An. Zivkovic, Z. Zivkovic, Baba
THE COMPOSITIONS
OLYMPIC (Jose Luis Mendiliber): Tzolakis, Kini (90’+4 Veso), Retsos, Abi, Richards, Ciquinho (78′ Ese), Ibora, Martins (78′ Masouras), Horta (85′ Carvalho), Pontense, Navarro (85′ El Kaabi).
PAOK (Rasvan Lucescu): Kotarski, Sastre (78′ Otto), Kenziora, Koulierakis, Baba, Ozdoev, Meite (74′ Schwab), Zivkovic, Murg (59′ Despodov), Tyson (79′ Marcos Antonio), Thomas (59 Samata).
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