100-year-old Martins chasing police officer Dusan Bajevic

Pedro Martins scored his 100th A’ Ethniki league victory on Thursday, becoming the second manager in Olympiakos history to do so after Dusan Bajevic. A not inconsiderable record for the 52-year-old coach, who needed 127 Interwetten Super League games to reach 100 wins and boasted an impressive success rate (78.7%).

All this with a 5-1 win over Asteras Tripoli in the widest Red-Whites championship victory to date for Martins’ team, which continues unabated in the… hunt for the great Bajevic. In his 4th consecutive season as Olympiacos coach, it’s not out of the question that by the end of the year he’ll have surpassed the man who made the ‘Red-Whites’ champions.

Martins has long since overtaken Takis Lemonis and the late Lakis Petropoulos, who succeeded Bajevic. By the end of his third season, he already had 80 wins, three more than Lemonis and eight more than Petropoulos, coach of Goulandri’s huge team in the ’70s.

In this special ten with the top coaches from Olympiacos we will find what we are looking for the greatest Ernesto Valverde, who became a slogan from the podium because of the beautiful ball played by the “Red-Whites”, Toza Veselinovic, founder of the team that grew up in the early 80s (he left before the first title of 1980, however in the Volos barrage), Oleg Blahin with the great team of the 90s (bad luck, but I say Saliareli and then Koskota era), the legendary Martin Bukovi who became a song, the cosmopolitan Mitchell and of course Alketas Panagoulias.

Here are the numbers on this great list:

1. Dusan Bayevic 138 games, 107 wins, 19 draws, 12 losses, 5 seasons
2. Pedro Martins 127 games, 100 wins, 21 draws, 6 losses, 4 seasons
3. Takis Lemonis 107 games, 77 wins, 22 draws, 8 losses, 7 seasons
4. Lakis Petropoulos 107 games, 72 wins, 27 draws, 8 losses, 4 seasons
5. Ernesto Valverde 90 games, 69 wins, 10 draws, 11 losses, 3 seasons
6. Toza Veselinovic 86 games, 54 wins, 15 draws, 17 losses, 3 seasons
7. Oleg Blahin 87 games, 51 wins, 26 draws, 10 losses, 3 seasons
8. Marton Bukov72 games, 49 wins, 13 draws, 10 losses, 4 seasons
9. mitchell 60 games, 47 wins, 7 draws, 6 losses, 3 seasons
10. Alketas Panagoulien 70 games, 42 wins, 20 draws, 8 losses, 4 seasons

Note that number 11 is the Kasimir Gorskithe late Pole who gave Olympiakos its first professional championship (1980) and 14th Marco Silvawho has by far the best performance of a year (2015-16) as in 29 games the Portuguese coach had 27 wins (percentage…93.1%) with just one draw and one loss!

The performances of Bajevic and Pedro

In his fourth season with Olympiakos, Pedro Martins counts wins, has celebrated two leagues and one cup, his team are the absolute favorites to win this year’s league title (while qualifying for the semi-finals of the cup) and ready, as we said, for Dusan to surpass Bajevic.

With eight wins, he’ll be at the top of the chart you read above, but he can do more than he wants:

• Three games to become the most-capped coach of the Red and White team. Bajevic has 208 games, Martins 206.
• And seven wins as the team’s polynomial coach (across all competitions). Bajevic has 144 wins, Martin’s 138.

As for the championship? Perhaps the big goal is what not all previous Tier A Nationals have achieved. Win the championship without suffering a loss. Despite not being the best season, Olympiacos has yet to suffer a defeat in terms of quality as they have 20 wins and 5 draws in the 25 games they have played in the league. There is one game left before the end of the regular season (the Aris game remains) and ten playoff games to see if the Red-Whites and their coach succeed.

Martins’ four seasons in the A National are translated numerically as follows:

• 2018-19: 24 wins, 3 draws, 3 losses
• 2019-20: 28 wins, 7 draws, 1 loss
• 2020-21: 28 wins, 6 draws, 2 losses
• 2021-22: 20 wins, 5 draws

This year is underway, the first season doesn’t include playoffs (because there weren’t any) like the next two years did.

Martins’ debut as Olympiacos manager in a league game came on August 26, 2018 when the ‘Red-Whites’ won 1-0 thanks to a goal from Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (at 62). Of this team, Mandi Kamaras and Andreas Bouchalakis… survived and are moving on. This would also have been the case for Costas Fortounis if his very serious injury had not been mediated. However, for the record, the first eleven Martins in the championship were the following: Gianniotis, Elabdellaoui, Tsimikas, Meria, Vukovic, Torosidis (45′ Bouhalakis), Kamara, Christodoulopoulos, Fortounis (87′ Natcho), Ghetto (45 Hassan)

✍ Worth seeing is the performance of Martins Olympiakos against the other “big players” in the league. He has the best record against AEK (9 wins – 3 draws) in which he has never lost. Against Panathinaikos the record is 6 wins 5 draws 1 loss and against PAOK 5 wins 3 draws 4 losses (more than any other team). Unbeaten, under Martins, is Olympiakos against Aris (9 wins – 2 draws)His biggest win is the 6-0 away win against Lamia last year (12/13/20).

Martins counts and his career continues in the port. The contract extension for another two years makes him the coach with the most years on the bench of the “Rot-Weiss” team.

Source: Soccerbase.gr