Mitchell’s tests and Olympiako’s line-up before the fight with Qarabag

Olympiacos are aiming for their first win in European competition this season when they take on Qarabag at Georgios Karaiskakis in the third group match of the Europa League on Thursday (6/10, 10:00 p.m., COSMOTE SPORT 2, LIVE Sportish).

Still lacking a point in their group, the Piraeus team will try to get the three points to hope for second place leading to the knockout stages of the competition, or even third if which allows them to stay alive to continue in the Conference League.

Freiburg top the group standings with six points, while Nantes and Qarabag have three points each, leaving Olympiacos looking for four to six points in their two consecutive games against Azerbaijan this week and next. This gives the Red and Whites the opportunity to qualify for the qualification in the last two games against the German and French teams.

Piraeus want to win against Qarabag, both for reasons of scoring and for the reputation and psyche of the footballers. Mitchell, who got off to a good start to his second spell at the Olympiakos bench by beating Atromitos, would like a similar continuation to boost player confidence ahead of La Liga and European action.

The Spanish coach explained Qarabag’s style of play to the players, who press high, are quick on the break and quite compact as a team, and urged the Reds and Whites to be extra careful in defense and in static phases, try to take advantage of the opportunities to take advantage of the attack.

This is a game that requires patience, intelligence, right tactics, lots of runs, passion, determination and efficiency.

Mitchell’s candidate line-up

As for lineup, Mitchell tried formations, both with three stoppers and four on defense. In the first test, the three stoppers in front of Tzolakis were Vrsaliko, Papastathopoulos and Cise, with Avila and Reabciuk on the flanks, Embila and Inbom Huang in the central midfield positions, Biel in front of them and leading the attack were Gary Rodriguez and Ui Jo Huang.

Should the Spain coach opt for a back four, possible line-ups include Tzolakis, Vrsaliko, Papastathopoulos, Cise, Reabciuk, Embila, Inbom Huang, Gary Rodriguez, Masoura, Biel and Ui Jo Huang.

Also available are Aboubakar Kamara, Bowler, Brusai, Valbuena, Conte, Bouchalakis, Marcelo, Doi, Paschalakis and Papadoudis.

It is recalled that injured El Arabi, Ba, Retsos and Vatslik are not counted, Androutsos (who, like Koutris and Lala, switched to Olympiakos B) was not included in the team either, while Hames has no right to take part in the European Championship Participate Games, Bakabou, Fortunis, Samaseku, De la Fuente, A. Camara, Leidner, Kasami and Christianson.

By the way, Mitchell decided on Wednesday evening (10/5) to train only those players who have the right to play in European competitions (except for 19-year-old central defender Kostas Chrysopoulos), while the rest will train with another group in the morning of the same day .