El Arabi and Mandi Kamara prevail against AEK

Olympiacos is unbeaten in their games against AEK during Pedro Martins’ tenure on the bench. Specifically, the Red-Whites have a crop of 8 wins and 3 draws in LaLiga with a total of 26-7 goals and another win (1-0) in the Greek Cup final in Volos in September 2020.

As for the matches at Georgios Karaiskakis stadium, Piraeus team has only wins against Union. Olympiakos has an equal number of wins in five games with a total of 14-1 goals. In fact, the last goal the red-whites conceded at home from the yellow-blacks was three years ago, on February 17, 2019, when Olympiakos were imposed 4-1.

In addition to the good tradition that Martins created against AEK, the Piraeus team also has three players who prevail in the games against Union. These are Youssef El Arabi, Mandi Kamaras and Costas Fortounis. The latter is yet to return to action after suffering a serious injury last June, but the Portuguese coach is banking heavily on the front two for Sunday’s game of Super League Interwetten’s 23rd game at Neos Faliro (13/2, 19:30, NOVASPORTS PRIME, LIVE with audio description on Sportish).

Arabi and Mandi’s numbers against AEK

El Arabi has scored 6 goals and provided 2 assists in Olympiakos’ games against AEK in the last 2.5 seasons and is in the Red-Whites. In fact, the Moroccan forward celebrated 5 of them in 2021.

The veteran striker scored twice in Olympiacos’ 3-2 win at OAKA in November 2021 in the first round of the league, while he had scored another two in the Red-Whites’ 3-0 win in January 2021 at Karaiskakis. He also scored, both in the Piraeus side’s stunning 5-1 win over Union in April 2021 in OAKA for the play-offs, and in Olympiacos’ 2-1 away win in June 2020. Over the two assists, the first in Masouras and the second in Brouma, in the 5-1 wins in OAKA and 2-0 in Karaiskakis in April 2021.

As for Mandi Kamaras, he celebrated 5 goals against AEK and provided one assist. The midfielder from Guinea scored in the games: Olympiacos – AEK 4-1 (17/02/2019), Olympiacos – AEK 2-0 (27/10/2019), AEK – Olympiacos 1-2 (28/06/2020), Olympiacos – AEK 3: 0 (19/7/2020) and AEK – Olympiacos 1-5 (4/4/2021). And the African central midfielder’s assist came at the end of Rangelovic, who gave the Reds and Whites the trophy and double in 2020.

It is noteworthy that whenever El Arabi or Mandi Kamara scored against AEK, Olympiacos won.

Apart from the two players mentioned above and Fortounis who is currently in the box, from the existing squad of Olympiacos, Masouras (2), Valbouena (2), Agibu Kamara, Vrousai and formerly Abraham Papadopoulos.