The 18th game derby between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos ended in a goalless draw, with both sides staying at clean sheets, in a game… that suffered for both as both the Greens and Red-Whites finished the game with nine finals, none but inside the hearth of Brinoli and Vatslik.

Olympiakos with that draw were held at +9 by the second PAOK and took another step to win this year’s championship when going through a difficult course like Avenue’s.

Overall, the Klee was slightly better than its opponent. He had more possession, more finals, Olympiakos seven-a-side, won six corners, with the Reds and Whites winning none, and his players pushed into the box more often than Olympiakos’s.

At the same time, the conditions of the stages created by Panathinaikos were better compared to what the visitors did, who had only two shots at Brinioli’s home and none of them in the second 45 minutes.

The derby had enough tactics for the two coaches, who wanted to keep a clean sheet, especially in defence, and then look for a goal.

Panathinaikos with Mauricio, Olympiakos with a trio

The two coaches, having returned to the missions of the two teams in relation to their last games, decided to differentiate their eleven, while in that of Olympiakos and in relation to the Red-Whites’ last game against Apollon Smyrnis also Pedro Martins changed the layout of the team.

For the hosts, Ivan Jovanovic didn’t have the penalized Sanchez available, opting instead for Juankar, who recovered from injury, and Mauricio, Carlitos, who left the virus behind. In the 4-3-3 that saw the Serb defeat Panathinaikos, he opted to bring back Mauricio instead of Alexandropoulos and kept Makeda in the starting XI while Carlitos stayed on the bench.

Brinioli sat under the goalposts, Kotsiras played on the right wing and Juankar on the left wing. While the stopper duo was Veleth sink field again. Pereth played as a six with Mauricio and Vigiafanies alongside him. In the attacking trio Palacios started on the right, Aitor on the left and Makeda at the front.

For their part, the Reds and Whites played with a trio in defense and a 3-4-3, with Manolas – Papastathopoulos playing as a duo for the first time in defence, while Martins did not have the injured Bouhalakis available and left El Arabi on the bench. .

Under the goalposts was Vatslik with Manolas playing in the stopper trio on the right, Papastathopoulos in the middle and Ba on the left. Lala was in right midfield, Reabciuk on the left and Kamara and Embila played as a duo in midfield. In the attacking trio, Lopez played on the right, Masouras on the left, and Ticinio at the head of the red-white attack.

A remarkable phase in 45 minutes of play

The first part of the derby started with Olympiakos having a slight advantage and wanting to push the greens over the middle to steal balls and threaten. Of course he didn’t succeed, except a couple of times, but again he failed to threaten Brinoli’s house.

Over time, Panathinaikos kept the ball on his feet and tried to find corridors to Vatslik’s home, but Makeda found themselves in another bad game and didn’t help to properly complete the greens’ offensive actions.

The best phase of the first half belonged to the hosts and came in the 41st minute when Juankar passed Lala nicely from the left, making a sweet cross to Makenda who bounced on his head undisturbed but at the wrong time, resulting in it that he sent the home of the Czech goalkeeper quite high from her.

It is significant that the first part ended with Panathinaikos having three finals, none at home and xgoal 0.28, while Olympiakos ended the 45th minute with two finals, also none at home and 0.09 xgoal.

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Jovanovic brought Ioannidis, Martin’s El Arabi

At the beginning of the second half, the two coaches threw an attacker into play. For the hosts, Ivan Jovanovic passed Ioannidis on the field instead of Makenda, who was pretty bad in another game and didn’t help during the game. On the other hand, the Portuguese coach brought in El Arabi and knocked out Lopez, who was also bad throughout the game.

Despite the two changes in attack from both teams, the derby continued in the same pattern. With the difference that Panathinaikos picked up the ball more, it circulated better and at the same time the pressure from Olympiakos was reduced to a minimum.

Still, neither team could reach a final heading home, but neither shot nor static stages won by the hosts were inconclusive.

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You changed, but to no avail

Pedro Martins intervened and threw in first Valbouena instead of Masura and then Karbovnik instead of Lala, while Jovanovic simultaneously eliminated the injured Aitor and brought Vital into play.

However, any corrective moves from the two benches did not change the data of the game. True, it is characteristic that the first danger in front of the two hosts in the second half came in the 74′ and was a long-range shot by Vigiafanies after a nice energy from the Argentine.

Panathinaikos tried to increase his pressure as time went on with the arrival of Alexandropoulos in 81′ to help as the Greek midfielder set the pace and tried to make some frontal attacks.

Of course, the Greens threatened again with a header that went to Ba in 80′ and another shot from distance by Vigiafanies in 82′.

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