What has Olympiacos achieved in Europe without their top scorer El Arabi?

Olympiacos will play one of their final cards in Karaiskakis on Thursday (6/10, 10pm, COSMOTE SPORT 2, LIVE Sportish) in the game against Karabagh in a bid to qualify for the next stage of the European competition on March 3^theEuropa League group stage match day. The red-whites, who don’t have a point in the group yet, will be deprived of their services in this attempt Youssef El Arabi.

The Moroccan centre-forward is Olympiacos’ top scorer in European competitions with 17 goals and that alone shows the magnitude of the defeat for the Piraeus side in their two games against Qarabag and possibly Freiburg.

And things have gotten more complicated for Mitchell considering Bakabu is not eligible for European games and Ui Jo Huang still has back and lower back issues. The Spanish coach therefore relies primarily on Aboubakar Kamara in the offensive line and alternatively on Biel.

Arabi played just 4 minutes as a substitute against Nantes in France and another 27 minutes as a substitute against Freiburg in Karaiskakis for the group stage of the Europa League, while he played in all four games in qualifying for the competition against Slovan Bratislava and in all four games for the Apollon Limassol was deployed.

The Africa international missed the first leg against Maccabi Haifa in Israel and came on as a 28-minute substitute in the second leg in Faliro to qualify for the Champions League.

But it’s worth looking at what Olympiacos did in their games in Europe where Arabi wasn’t available. The Moroccan He has been absent from just six Red-Whites European games in the last almost 3.5 years, and the Piraeus side have won three of those games (1-0 Neftsi Baku, 2-0 Basaksehir, 4-0 Krasnodar). two draws (1:1 Maccabi Haifa, 0:0 Viktoria Pilsen) and one defeat (0:1 Manchester City).

There were six other games in which Arabi only played between one and five minutes, making practically no contribution, and in which the Reds and Whites recorded three victories (3-0 Fenerbahce, 1-0 Necsi Baku, 1-0 Basaksehir) . , a draw (2-2 Tottenham) and two defeats (1-2 Nantes, 1-3 Red Star).