Olympiakos’ first goal now should be to become a team. To get back to normal. A team with principles that will keep up with the waters of football and help them keep winning titles in Greece and achieve even more in European competitions.

The reality is that the Red and Whites have turned their backs on football for a year and a half. And he turned his back on them too. Olympiakos’ image seemed to be going nowhere last season, but winning last year’s championship easily, coupled with Martins’ contract extension, hampered development.

The Portuguese manager should have ended his partnership with Piraeus PAE last May rather than late July after being eliminated by Maccabi Haifa and losing the move to the Champions League groups for the second straight season. Thus, neither the preparation nor the friendlies would have gone wrong, as the new coach would currently be working under different conditions.

Corberan is not to blame for Olympiakos’ image in recent weeks. Not that he didn’t make mistakes, some of which were glaring, but how can he not be confused and bewildered by all that has been thrust upon him in such a short space of time? Just imagine this: when the Spain coach first went to Renti, he saw Ticinho, Cane, Zinkernagel and Ranjelovic. After a few days he had Inbom Huang, Biel, Bowler and Ui Jo Huang. And in the last 24 hours, more lockers have been opened at Rentis for Marcelo, James Rodríguez, Bakabou and Samasekou. So let someone take his place.

Too much pressure on Corberan’s shoulders

The pressure is on Corberan, but that’s how Olympiacos are. A team that is constantly under pressure for the result, the titles, the beautiful spectacle. He is not satisfied with less, which is why there are constant upheavals and changes. The Spaniard is fighting back but no one can say for sure at the moment if he is capable of commanding the big ship Olympiacos.

He has only been with the Piraeus team for a month and a half, a time when not all players were available to him due to multiple muscle injuries and at the same time he saw and sees new faces joining the squad. Players who were actually forced to go straight into the starting XI or be substituted on in games as there are no friendlies to give them playing time and prepare them. Piraeus team has games in Greece and Europe every three to four days, the Iberian coach can’t even train hard.

The truth is also that the Red and Whites now have great personalities in the dressing room, footballers who have won many titles at European level and not only in their careers. At the same time, there are too many players at Rentis, and this requires proper management. Can Corberan command them all? He and the people of the Piraeus Group know that. The 39-year-old coach is swimming in invisible waves and is nowhere to be caught as the results don’t help either.

Olympiacos went eight games in Europe without a win. Don’t play with any giant, but with Maccabi Haifa, Slovan Bratislava, Apollon Limassol, Nantes and Freiburg. Olympiacos who have embarked on Karaiskakis teams such as Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund. So you can understand where the Piraeus team is right now. But if you don’t beat Slovan and Apollon Limassol in Faliro, how are you going to beat Freiburg, who are second in the German league?

Self criticism, support, patience

But what’s done is done. Time doesn’t turn back and Olympiacos must look ahead. Corberan and above all the footballers of the Piraeus team have to exercise their self-criticism, raise their heads and play according to their possibilities. Because many of them have wronged themselves to this day.

Amid all that has happened, now is the time that Olympiakos fans should support the team and be patient until the red-whites return to normal. At the end of the week, the period of special conditions will end, only the players and Corberan will have to close the first game cycle, since the league suspension follows with the conquest of the three points in the match against Ares.

Improvement in October, a real Olympic champion after the November break

From Monday, the red and white workers have the opportunity to work differently in the pension for twelve days. All the new faces will have joined the team, some players who appear to be in the red will be relieved, others will come back from injuries and the technical leadership will be able to end up with a body capable of Olympiacos’ successes will lead.

James Rodríguez, Marcelo, Bakabu and Samaseku, who came to our country in the last 24 hours, are ready to draw a red line. Leaving behind what has become of those difficult two months for Olympiakos from July 20th to today. And along with the aforementioned Biel, Inbom Huang, Bowler, Ui Joe Huang, Vrsaliko, veterans Embila, Arabi, Valbuena, Manolas, Papastathopoulos, Masouras as well as Fortounis who is ready to return to the games.

The red-whites will start showing competitive improvements in early October, they will be better at the end of the month, they will be significantly stronger in the first halves of November, but the real Olympiacos will be the ones after the World Cup break. Until then, the goal is for the Piraeus side to be high in the Greek league and qualified for the knockout stages of European competitions. Then everything goes its way…

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