Valbouena let Olympiakos breathe and was the solution against Volos

Olympiacos continued their unbeaten run in Super League Interwetten to leave Panthessalikos with a win. The Red-Whites beat Volos 1-0 in the 24th game of the league thanks to a great goal from Mathieu Valbouena in the 81st minute.

The Reds and Whites appeared to be ‘stuck’ in Panthessalikos before the 37-year-old Frenchman came and brought the solution. The Martins players shot a lot in Sunday’s game. Specifically, they had 18 final attemptssecond-best away performance and fifth overall in the league.

Of course, eight shots were fired outside the area seven of the 18 attempts were aimed at Kleiman’s house. Therefore, Olympiacos had 1.04 x Goalsan average of this year’s expected targets.

Valbouena replaced Carvalho and gave Olympiakos air

Pedro Martins started with Joao Carvalho in position “10” and Agibu and Masoura at the ends of the attack. During the game, however, he wanted to find a way to improve his team creatively and transformed Agibu (22) into the attacking midfielder position while Carvalho (20) switched to the left, as seen on Opta’s transfer to Network. .

The 24-year-old Portuguese made his La Liga debut with Olympiacos and appeared to be struggling. In the first part, he hadn’t been able to work with any of his teammates more than four times had 15 actions with the ball, the least of the red and white.

In the second part before the departure he tried to improve, he did 14 actions in 19 minutes and found more with Reabchuk, Bouhalaki and Agibu. Overall he had in the 64 minutes he played 16 successful passes, 29 actions and two shots (one on target). Of course he’s been with the Red and Whites for a while and it takes time for him to settle in. The logs of his participation might prove useful for the sequel.

In the 64th minute, Pedro Martins made the decision that changed the game. The Portugal coach replaced Joao Carvalho with Mathieu Valbouena who proved to be a turning point. The 37-year-old Frenchman gave Olympiakos a different air. Within 26 minutes he had 26 actions with the ballboth in large area.

In the 72nd minute he threatened with a shot for the first time (8.26% chance of scoring), ten minutes later he scored a great goal after working with Arabi. He still had 18 successful passes, even more than …. Passer Jan Embilas (16), who passed as a change at the same time. At the same time, in those minutes when he was struggling, he had too two ball possession recoveries.

Valbouena scored his third league goal that year. He had succeeded again the winning goal against Volos with a direct foul in the delays, while the goal was opened in the 1st minute of the game with Panetolikos. Whatever he is at the age of 37, he doesn’t stop showing his quality and keeps proving himself useful to Olympiakos when he’s called to the rescue by Martins.