Europa League
Olympiacos knows the road well and goes its own way
Sportish recalls Olympiakos’ results when they played at home on the final matchday of the group stage of a European competition.
Olympiakos Batska Topola welcomes “Georgios Karaiskakis” behind closed doors this evening (December 14th, 10 p.m., COSMOTE SPORT 5 HD And LIVE Sportish) for the sixth matchday of the Europa League group phase with the aim of qualifying for the knockout games of the Conference League in February.
It is not the first time in the last two and a half decades that the Red and Whites have played a qualifying game in the final game of the group stage, neither the Champions League nor the Europa League/UEFA Cup. The Piraeus team needs a win or a draw against Batska Topola to secure their ticket to the European competitions, while they have been in a similar position before in the past. In fact, there were occasions when he just needed the win or even a win on goal difference.
In total, Olympiacos Piraeus has played 19 home games in the final group stage of the Champions League and Europa League/UEFA Cup since 1997 and has a record of 11 wins, four draws and four defeats.
In several cases, the result of the last group game decided qualification. In the 2019/20 season, the red-whites won 1-0 against Red Star in Karaiskakis (87th minute El Arabi) in the Champions League and were eliminated from the group as third and took part in the Europa League, where they reached the round of 16 (Arsenal were eliminated in the round of 32 and were eliminated by Wolves).
Furthermore, in the 2018/19 season, Olympiacos defeated Milan in the Europa League 3-1 at Faliro (60′ Cisse, 70′ Zapata own goal, 81′ Fortounis – 72′ Zapata) and moved to the round of 32 in a competition, in which they were eliminated by Dynamo Kiev.
In the 2014/15 season, the Piraeus team won 4-2 against Malmö in Karaiskakis (22′ Fuster, 63′ Dominguez, 87′ Mitroglou, 90′ Afelai – 59′ Kroon, 81′ Rosenberg) and came third in the Champions League group and made it to the “32” of the Europa League, where he was eliminated by Dnipro.
In the 2013/14 season, Olympiacos won 3-1 against Anderlecht in Faliro (33rd minute, 58th Saviola, 95th Dominguez – 39th Kljestan), took second place in the Champions League group and scored in the K .-o.-round on Manchester United. 16″ of the event.
In the 2012/13 season, the Piraeus team beat Arsenal 2-1 in Karaiskakis (64′ Maniatis, 73′ Mitroglou – 38′ Rositski), came third in the Champions League and reached the “32” of Europe League where they were eliminated by Levante.
In the 2011/12 season, Olympiacos Piraeus was defeated 3-1 against Arsenal in Faliro (16′ Jebur, 36′ Foster, 89′ Modesto – 57′ Benayoun) for the Champions League and reached the “32” (Rubin Kazan was eliminated out of). and in the “16” of the Europa League (eliminated by Metalist).
The Piraeus team beat Arsenal 1-0 in Karaiskakis (47th minute Leonardo) in the 2009/10 season for the Champions League and reached the “16” of the competition, where they were eliminated by Bordeaux.
In the 2008/09 season, Olympiacos defeated Hertha 4-0 in the UEFA Cup in Faliro (54′ Dudu, 68′ Galeti, 86′ Torosidis, 89′ Diogo) and qualified for the round of 32 of the competition, where they exit from St. Etienne.
In the 2007/08 season, the Red-Whites defeated Werder Bremen 3-0 at Karaiskakis (12th, 74th Stoltidis, 70th Kovasevic) and secured entry into the Champions League. There they were eliminated from Chelsea in the round of 16 of the competition.
And in the 1999-2000 season, Olympiakos Piraeus defeated Porto 1-0 at OAKA (56th minute Giannakopoulos) and won the Champions League. It later played in the UEFA Cup knockout games against Juventus.
In detail the results of Olympiacos at home on the 6thThe and last matchday of the group stage in the last 26 years:
- 1997-98, Olympiakos – Rosenborg: 2-2, Champions League
- 1999-2000, Olympiakos – Porto: 1-0, Champions League
- 2001-02, Olympiacos – Deportivo La Coruna: 1-1, Champions League
- 2002-03, Olympiacos – Maccabi Haifa: 3-3, Champions League
- 2005-06, Olympiacos Piraeus – Real Madrid: 2:1, Champions League
- 2006-07, Olympiacos Piraeus – Shakhtar Donetsk: 1-1, Champions League
- 2007-08, Olympiacos Piraeus – Werder Bremen: 3-0, Champions League
- 2008-09, Olympiakos – Herta: 4-0, UEFA Cup
- 2009-10, Olympiacos Piraeus – Arsenal: 1-0, Champions League
- 2011-12, Olympiacos Piraeus – Arsenal: 3:1, Champions League
- 2012-13, Olympiacos Piraeus – Arsenal: 2:1, Champions League
- 2013-14, Olympiacos Piraeus – Anderlecht: 3:1, Champions League
- 2014-15, Olympiakos – Malmo: 4:2, Champions League
- 2015-16, Olympiacos Piraeus – Arsenal: 0-3, Champions League
- 2017-18, Olympiacos Piraeus – Juventus: 0-2, Champions League
- 2018-19, Olympiakos – Milan: 3-1, Europa League
- 2019-20, Olympiakos – Red Star: 1-0, Europa League
- 2020-21, Olympiakos – Porto: 0-2, Champions League
- 2022-23, Olympiakos – Nantes: 0-2, Europa League
Source: sport 24
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Ukrainian defender Nottingham Forest Alexander Zinchenko He shared his feelings after his team beat Utrecht (2:1) in the main round of the Europa League.
“It’s a great feeling. First of all, I’m back. Secondly, it’s an incredible feeling to win a match. Getting three points today was very important for us. As you can see, it was a difficult match. But at the end of the match, I think we got what we wanted and let’s continue like that.”
“As a defender you always want to keep a clean sheet, but unfortunately we couldn’t do that today. So it’s something we need to work on in the future.”
“This is one of those matches where whoever wins the most challenges in different areas of the field will win the match. Today we won many more goals which helped us a lot in the game. But to be honest, even the opportunities we created, including me, we should have scored and finished this match earlier,” said Zinchenko.
Nottingham Forest is in 11th place in the rankings with 11 points after 6 matches in the Europa League this season.
Source: Sport UA
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sports doctor Dmitry Babelyuk He was not happy with the decision made by Sean Dyche, the head coach of English Nottingham, in the match against Dutch Utrecht in the Europa League (2-1).
The Foresters’ coach has given Ukraine national team defender Alexander Zinchenko a place in the starting squad after the player missed nine matches due to injury.
“These old-school coaches never cease to amaze. In 2025, with the advancement of sports science and medicine, I don’t understand how it is possible to release a player from the winger position for a full 90 minutes at the same time after two muscle injuries.
First, Moyes did this to Mikolenko, which led to Vitaly’s relapse. Now Dyche makes the same obvious mistakes.
Understanding that Zinchenko is a player who has regularly suffered from muscle problems in recent seasons; injured twice at Nottingham in the last three months; Having not played for the last six weeks, I cannot imagine how anyone could be so negligent in getting a player into top playing form.
This is not often seen in the new generation of coaches such as Thomas Frank or Enzo Mareschi, but the old ones continue to rely on their own emotions, leaving players in danger of unnecessary relapses.
I hope everything goes well for Sasha and he returns to his best form, but playing 90 minutes at a time after two months of treatment is outright stupidity in modern football at the top level,” Babelyuk raged.
Source: Sport UA
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Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche The performance of the players who returned to the field after their injuries in the 6th round match against Utrecht in the Europa League (2-1) was evaluated as follows:
“I’m happy for a lot of the players. Douglas Louis only trained for two days. I don’t usually do that, but he talked to me and said he felt good. He wanted to play.”
“Zinchenko did an incredible job” for the full 90 minutes. We didn’t have such a plan, but we can only make a certain number of changes.
Murillo returned after a week’s illness. We had to be careful with him.
It was difficult to make sound decisions about who would play, who would not play, and how many minutes he would stay on the field. But in the end everything went well and I am very happy.”
Source: Sport UA
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