The European suffering is over and Olympiacos got an exemption. One of the worst European seasons in its history has come to an end.

The adventure that began on July 20 in Haifa, when Olympiacos went 12 games without a single win, advanced to the European group stage with two penalties and failed in a group with Freiburg, Nantes, Karabagh, was over.

It takes hard work

Of course, the Piraeus club wants to finish this season and never come back. But a great deal of work needs to be done to prevent the players paid for by clubs, coaching staff and footballers from showing such an image again in Europe.

Mitchell is the third coach to work at Olympiacos this year and has the responsibility of bringing Olympiacos back to European standing.

He only put those on the field he didn’t believe

For the game against Nantes there is no point in interfering, Olympiakos himself didn’t interfere, his coach didn’t interfere. It might have been a European game, points to be surpassed, but that’s the fine print these days.

The way he moved his players around the pitch looked more like he wanted to put them in the starting XI to get this game out of a problem date than he wanted to give those he wasn’t counting on a chance .

I really don’t think the game against Nantes did anything, offered Mitchell’s thoughts in the slightest. Perhaps another frustrating note has been thrown in for Ou-Jo and Abubakar Kamara.

Nobody from this game will occupy the smallest place in Mitchell’s mind. To be honest, the Spanish manager didn’t expect it either, he just wanted to go and train with the players he expects for the derby on Friday.

With the eleven that rolled Leoforos into the final

We have a derby on Sunday and Mitchell didn’t get a chance to squander energy from a footballer he considers his main man. This particular choice might be reprehensible for some, certainly no one likes it when a side abandon European games and present the image Olympiacos showed in the second half.

But whatever happened to Nantes, this year was not saved. There have been many problematic games and it has already been written in black letters in Olympiacos’ European history.

Olympiacos will have their last chance to return to the title fight on Sunday in Leoforo. Mitchell recently rolled a eleven with Paschalakis, Avila, Papastathopoulos, Doi, Reabchuk, Embila, Inbom Huang, Biel, Masoura, Hames and Bakabou.

Obliged to give a testimony

With a win they will reduce the gap to 7 points, they will have received an incredible psychological boost that Pioneer and undefeated Panathinaikos beat and they will be able to see the next day with different eyes.

Of course it’s not easy, Panathinaikos are a side who have had a good day job since the summer of 2021 and Olympiacos will go to Leoforos with a squad of quality midfielders that Mitchell has been trying to tie for the past two to three weeks.

He risks being out of the running by November

The level of difficulty, the handicap he has on the avenue is important, but it is a game that everyone must give their hearts to. As in the case of a defeat against Panathinaikos, Olympiakos threatens to be eliminated from the championship for the first time since the stone years from November.

Everyone understands that with the form of this year’s championship in the competitive situation in which Panathinaikos and AEK are, even if they lose in the derby and the difference is -13, there is no possibility of a return.

In practice, he will have to enter the cold and alien process of having to find a narrative to continue the year.

You have to take this year’s European course seriously

In my opinion, whether they win, lose or get a point in Leoforos, Olympiacos should put the championship win on hold and seriously consider their destiny this year. The year would not have turned out this way if Olympiacos had lost last year’s championship.

The fact that he hadn’t worked properly last year, but was able to do it, set the stage for him to be a bouquet. Not seeing your weaknesses, not caring about them, solving them in time and keeping a team that is already dead.

Be careful, Olympiacos are a big team, if they pass the avenue with a double it means something is going well, something has been working lately and they can definitely look at the rest of the season differently.

To become a modern European team again

But the most important thing is to become a modern team again, with a certain logic of football, capable of competing at a high pace for a long time. Let’s be honest, even the improved Olympiacos of the last few games are back in runs and competition intensity. In order to get them back into their racing stables, they need a decent daily work on a permanent basis.

It’s possible that Olympiacos will soon be at the point of looking for a new narrative, of having to find reasons to continue playing and improve.

He is said to get this motivation to improve performance from the Olympiacos image, which is degrading for the size of the club, in a group not with giants, but with an insignificant team from Azerbaijan and the small and middle leagues in Nantes and Freiburg.

He should never allow himself to find himself at such a problematic level of competition.