AEK wants to restart Ofridopoulos’ debut

AEK welcomes PAOK to OAKA (02/03, 20:30, COSMOTE SPORT 1, LIVE on Sportish) in a rescheduled match for Game 17 of the Super League Interwetten, which Union looks to restart with wins in its attempt to ‘save ” the exit to Europe in the new year.

A day earlier (03/01) he ended the cooperation with Argyris Giannikis, where the 41-year-old coach paid for the marble for the loss of national goals. Giannikis received the team at -1 from the top and -20 from the top while being banned from the Greek Cup.

The reasons for the fourth unsuccessful season in a row are manifold. Giannikis bears his share of the blame, but he’s not the only one responsible for what happened. His alibi is that the team wasn’t his and he didn’t set it up himself.

Faced with the yellow-black organization having to make their own self-criticism of people and situations, AEK will move into its new home in anticipation of the next historic season.

As for the derby, if the AEK players have any hope they shouldn’t forget one of Ofridopoulos’ first attacks in yesterday’s training session (03/01). “ΤThe secret of football is I help myself, I help my team-mates, I play for my neighbors.”

The Union’s only goal is victory to close the gap with Thessaloniki to five points, but also increase the gap with Panathinaikos and Aris, who are “stalking” it in the fight to exit Europe. PAOK comes from playing at home with Ionikos, but also from winning with Midtjylland and qualifying for the “16” of the Conference League.

From then on and beyond, Simanski and Michelen returned in connection with the Panathinaikos game, while Gevtic, Stankovic and Galanopoulos are absent due to injury problems.

Eleven riddles, surprise open

Socrates Ofridopoulos, with just one training session, it’s perfectly logical that he won’t make any big changes in terms of the players Giannikis field. Of course, it’s possible that he’ll surprise you. We remind you that Giannikis put Mitoglou and Rota in the foreground in his first game.

Panagiotis Tsintotas will be seated under the beams. Rota will play at the right end of defense while Vranies and Tzavellas have the lead to play in the center of defense while Hadjisafi and Mohammadi claim a spot on the left.

In midfield, alongside Andre Simoes, Evgen Sakhof and Damian Simanski, the Portuguese midfielder is not absolutely “sure”. In the midfield trio, Amrabat leads at 10, with Chuber on the left and Livai on the right. Mandalos claims a spot on the starting lineup. At the head of the attack, Araούjo has a lead over Ansarifard.