Zampa’s goal and celebration made the night brighter for PAOK

Lucescu often said that winning is the most important thing. However, something happened today that is bigger for him than dominating Panetolikos.

Zampa’s goal in the delays is PAOK’s big win from today’s (01/12) game. The way he celebrated the Brazilian winger says a lot about how badly he needed to score but also how happy he is to have his team working with Razvan Lucescu again.

Zampa is not another case of nostalgia

Looking at PAOK’s movements and decisions as a whole, one might think that Zampa’s return is another step of many that have become nostalgic for the championship-winning team. In this case, however, it’s different, simply because, unlike the previous cases, Zampa has time to have the good footballer years ahead of him.

We are talking about a soccer player who is only 23 years old. In the 2018/19 season, when PAOK won the double, one of the weapons of the team that won it all was the speed, the intensity that the Brazilian put into his game. PAOK had secured a contract with him until the summer of 2023 and everything showed that he had found gold.

Who can forget the havoc he wreaked in the game that essentially ended the championship 3-1 against Olympiakos. In practice, the result of the two footballers’ duel was the one that brought Koutris out of Olympiakos, who had been really tormented by the then 20-year-old Brazilian winger.

rumors and injuries

After that, however, things didn’t go so well for Zampas. The very serious injury to his right knee in November 2019 in Drama took his entire career back. He has pointed out the injury on numerous occasions, which has stigmatized him and turned his career into a setback.

To be perfectly clear, there were rumors that he wasn’t acting very professionally and this fact was what made the people of PAOK want him to return to his home country. In Brazil he went to Vasco, who was in the second category. He didn’t take his eyes off him, but he got a lot of games.

Games that give him a second chance at PAOK, a second chance in Europe, with the manager he believes in, with the manager he believes in.

It lacks the exact elements that Zampa was introduced to us with

PAOK needs transfers in all areas. Looking at how they played the position on either side of the attack in an easy game today, Mitritsa Murg understands how much he can help, an extremist with stride and ability to use empty space.

This year, PAOK is missing the very data that Zampa is offering in the year Lutsescu and the government created the team that achieved domestic dominance. He has a contract until the summer of 2023, competition in his place gives him the right to play games until the summer and prove he can have a spot in the squad that will be created next season to claim the championship .

In PAOK there is a quality extreme striker, but Zivkovic plays the position differently, more inwardly, looking for the final decision as a second striker or as the last creator. Extremes to increase the speed and intensity of the team, like Zampa did in the squad in the 18/19 season, do not exist and the Brazilian will be given a second chance.

December’s Panetolikos failed to appear

There aren’t many things to stand for in the game. Panaitolikos was unprepared and the problems he was facing with the coronavirus had left the team without being able to do any team training. On the field, Anastasious’ team looked much more disjointed and running fewer compared to the image they projected, particularly in the December games.

He had an easy task, but he lacked creativity

The game was manageable for PAOK, but it was difficult to create clear chances. In the first half, Duarte won two penalties due to a misjudgment by Melissa and only had one chance through a shot from Augusto, who went through the box in the 34th minute when Melissa stopped.

There was no right final choice. It shows in the form Lucescu found to rally and strengthen his team, there is no creative midfielder on the axis and Murg, Mirtitsa were few in the final decision.

The Romanian in particular, although he was the only one running and able to transfer the ball quickly, was irritated in some moments by the ease of losing the ball, but also by the last selfish decisions he made without being able to justify the winds finished what he tried.

He’s been on the meds but the ceiling stays low

Zampa’s goal and PAOK’s 6 straight wins in all competitions after the Nice defeat give Lucexou the right to smile. He called for victories as medicine, they came, but it goes without saying that the team needs changes.

The plan implemented recently may have improved in terms of intensity, interceptions on the axis and degree of pressure on the opponent, but overall the certain group of players has a certain ceiling and cannot achieve the goals and ambitions of management, neither the Coach still the world of PAOK.