A change from Jovanovic to the benefit of Panathinaikos in Volos. to treat

For many years, Panthessaliko was a place of martyrdom for Panathinaikos: painful loss to AEL in the 2007 cup final, loss to Olympiakos Volou every time it came to Magnesia. Draw in last year’s meeting with Volos.

The bad tradition in this phase began to change twice from last year in January 2021 and is now even more “paved” during this year’s visits to Panathinaikos. There he won his first away win of the year on November 22nd against the (typically domestic) Lamia, which he left a month later (December 23rd) with a “white” qualifying tie in the quarter-finals of the Greek Cup.

And this afternoon (September 1st, 5:15 pm COSMOTESPORT 2HD, LIVE from Sportish) the greens want to triple the good with another double, which will lift them to 3rd place overall – ahead of PAOK – with one more match. Great chance for the “clover”, but again many problems in a 17th game that was completely “cut open” due to the coronavirus, which led to the postponement of 5 of its 7 games.

However, this time the last-minute problem for Ivan Jovanovic did not come from Covid-19, but from the hematoma on Juankar’s wade, which he played with Aris last Wednesday evening (January 5th). The discomfort did not let go of him until Saturday morning (January 8th), when the pain became even more intense, the Spaniard stayed in Athens to undergo magnetism and a Serbian coach had to activate Plan B, with Facudo Sanchez on the left side of the defense and the return of Giannis Kotsiras as a right-back to the starting XI. In other words, how the “Greens” played in the Cup rematch with Volos two and a half weeks ago, in which the Spanish return player was again absent with a muscle injury.

From then on, no changes in the line-up compared to the four-day game against Aris are to be expected. Ruben Pereth and Tassos Hadjijovanis got over the virus and were made available to Jovanovic, but since they have lost a lot of training in the last 7 days they are not counted longer than 15-20 minutes and are considered options by the bank.

Jovanovic’s Eleven

Brinoli will take a position under the goalpost to keep the fifth straight game at zero, with Fran Veleth and Bart Senkefeld as his main “bodyguards” again. Sotiris Alexandropoulos will be the 6th of the Greens, next to him Ramon Pascal Ludqvist and Lucas Vigiafanies a little further, Aitor Cantalapiedra and Sebastian Palacios will be on the wings of the attack and Federico Makeda will start.

In contrast to last Wednesday’s game against Aris, in which Panathinaikos ended with the forced dispatch of 19 players, Jovanovic voted on Saturday afternoon (January 8th) despite the sudden problem with Juankar – after Ruben and Hadjiyovanis returned.

Analytically, the 21 players selected in the “green” mission are: Dioudis, Brinioli, Xenopoulos, Veleth, Senkefeld, Alexandropoulos, Ioannidis, Makeda, Hatzigiovanis, Hatzitheodoridis, Sanchez, Ludgbanist, Ludkvist, V, Pougouras and Vital.

Carlitos, Mauricio, Bouzoukis still suffering from a virus and Kourbelis – Ayub were spared.