Jovanovic’s Panathinaikos has become a provincial delight

Bad luck once, bad luck twice, bad luck three times. The arbitration was guilty once, the arbitration was guilty twice, the arbitration three, somewhere Nisafi. Panathinaikos has lost ten times in the 23 games played.

Only teams playing for the category have suffered so many defeats in the league. It has become the joy of the province. They look forward to Panathinaikos in Giannina, Heraklion, Tripoli, Volos, Agrinio, in all cities of Greece to celebrate with him. To go to the stadium, to see a great team in their kit, to give Vigiafanes and Pereth every inch of the pass to a meter and then celebrate a great win against him at the end.

Whatever city Jovanovics Panathinaikos goes to, something happens and his opponent wins. He wins without having to do anything special. Something happens in every game and Jovanovic’s team manages to lose.

The softest team to have appeared in Greek football

Panaitolikos made his most harmless game this year. If we exclude Karelis’ counterattack, a goal disallowed for offside had no phase in the flow of the game. However, he endured the tedious harmless passing game of Panathinaikos and with quality phased execution Mendoza clinched victory.

Many inexplicable things happen in this group. The tolerance Ivan Jovanovic has for the results he has achieved is incredible. It’s clear he failed to teach his team how to win. He failed to pass on a winning mentality, a toughness to his players.

This year’s Panathinaikos isn’t a bad team, but it is the softest to appear in Greek football. I really can’t remember any other Greek team losing in so many games and so many times that they were in control.

Lots of harmless passes around

We constantly see him with extremely slow possession, playing with Pereth on 6 who is constantly turning and making harmless passes and two inner midfielders who play very far from the opponent’s space and in turn pass to very narrow meters.

With Panaitolikos, the midfield trio consisted of Pereth, Vijafanes, Gacinovic while Vital finished fourth and got close to them. Panathinaikos midfielders can never get to the opponent’s space and threaten when the opponent’s pressure level and the game’s difficulty increases.

Playing with Apollon, with teams like Karditsa, or a passable game on the Avenue, you can gain meters through high ball possession and additional players in opposing space. The funny thing is that although the season has passed a lot and now we know the ins and outs of the team, this football was worshiped after the victories over Lamia and Apollon. Little do we know the picture is distressed.

Attacks at only the speed of Aitor and Juankar

Panathinaikos wasn’t pressured by Panaitolikos in the first half but didn’t have an opportunity to attack. While he was playing, with the 4 midfielders closely spaced and well within the opposition area delivering excruciatingly slow one-metre passes, the only way to threaten was for Juankar and Aitor to get the ball their way. That happened sometimes, especially with the active Aitor, who was lucky enough to fall on the defensively weak Huhumi, but the team didn’t really create chances.

Carlitos hesitated with the execution

The center forward didn’t help at all. Jovanovic opted not to start Ioannidis, giving the deformed Carlitos a key game. The Spaniard was late as often as he could be executed for a strange reason, he made a pointless pretense and wasted time.

It is strange that although Panathinaikos scored with two penalties with different enforcers in Rizoupoli and had both on the field, it was decided that Carlitos would take the penalty, who seemed hesitant to take it throughout the game.

It’s even stranger because Aitor’s execution in Rizoupoli was amazing and the Spanish winger was by far the most threatening Panathinaikos player. These details make the difference in teams and for these details you need the coach, but Ivan Jovanovic doesn’t help them.

The lack of a really good striker is obvious

I rewrote it and I’m tired of repeating myself. But it keeps getting worse, more and more extreme. Time is passing and Panathinaikos’ development is becoming more and more predictable for the opposition with Jovanovic’s plan, the lack of a really good striker is noticeable and the marginalization of the club’s greatest talent is becoming more and more obvious.

She is the team’s 5th midfielder and 18th player, their number 1

It’s unbelievable that Panathinaikos management accept their coach to downgrade the No.1 in the squad. It is unacceptable that they let Jovanovic make only one transfer in January and she is in the place of Alexandropoulos, who already didn’t count on him for the base team. With Gacinovic, Alexandropoulos became the team’s 5th midfielder and 18th player.

Jovanovic is not obsessed with the Greek footballer. It goes without saying that he is a very serious and good man. But it’s also obvious that he believes in a football where the midfield trio plays slowly, doesn’t move vertically, passes from close range many times and tortures the ball that way. In this football, it is made by footballers who do not have athletics, do not have the ability to walk vertically, cover distances quickly and intensely.

He hasn’t won a semi-difficult victory

Maybe last year in Panathinaikos world they didn’t like that Boloni played very defensively and the opponents had the ball. But by such a time Panathinaikos had won great victories. He had beaten Olympiakos, PAOK, AEK, Aris at Vikelidis. He hasn’t even won half a major game this year. Panathinaikos’ greatest victory was with Aris in Leoforos, where horn Mantzios went down with half a team.

Obsolete football

Of course, it was unpleasant to see Panathinaikos in the role of an accomplice, playing permanently as a youth team and from the moment when the club didn’t achieve their goals with this football, the change was right and necessary.

I also understand that the Serbian coach’s efforts to make the Panathinaikos coach in his games to be in control of the games are viewed positively. I’m just sorry but the football he plays is outdated.

We also saw it last Thursday when two of our teams came out and played in the knockout rounds of European competitions. PAOK with the Danish Midland and Olympiakos with the deformed Atalanta. From the picture of these two games it became clear that the Greek teams had a serious problem dealing with the rhythm that is played outside of Greece.

In our country, the sport is still played in slow motion. Football has gone to intensity, to high pressure, to rapid and quality development. Such an offensive plan does not exist, with the many midfielders making desperately slow changes, with endlessly slow, narrow, harmless passes for the opponent without the players being transferred to the opponent’s home.

His opponents play not to lose and in the end they win him

He doesn’t become your most vertical footballer, the midfielder who can take the ball off axis and run it to push harder on opponents’ possession to keep them permanently on the bench because you think they’re losing position. You can’t threaten the opponent when you have four central midfielders on the field who are holding their space and that space is far away from the opponent.

To open up the defense you need to get the ball and player between the opposing lines. This requires running, intensity and vertical play. Jovanovic presents a football that gives his team control of the game, but with that control he doesn’t create real chances, he can’t win in demanding games and magically manages to end up losing games without posing any particular threat obtain . .

Panathinaikos’ opponents play not to lose, and in the end they succeed and win.