Now Giannikis must deal with the beasts

Life has led her in such a way that the renewal of the collaboration with Argyris Giannikis a month ago faces the most difficult process there is. Since the coach of AEK didn’t manage to use Olympiacos’ gnats against opponents like OFI (1-2) and Panetolikos (1-2), how will he do it in the next such difficult and demanding games?

With two wins in those games – and here we have to consider the home game issue and how different it could be if AEK played at home – the gap to the top would have shrunk to 4 points. So, despite the team’s playing weaknesses, we would talk about a different situation and definitely about a better atmosphere and an improved psyche.

Goals are fueled by results, and when you feel good about what you’re achieving on the field, then you have the right to believe in what most people believe is impossible. But what does it matter what others think when you dream? As long as you have a reason to travel with your mind

Back to reality… It is a given that Giannikis failed to manage games that would help AEK be more active in the top game. Not only has the gap with Olympiakos grown in his time, not only has he failed to close it on poor results and his image is generally miserable, but he has also lost second place from PAOK, which is improving and complementing. .

Now the Union coach is called upon to change the resulting image to his detriment, against opponents who have made AEK their “customer”. He’s preparing for the toughest task a coach could face trying to establish himself on his team’s bench. Because the announcements and contract extensions are good, but in the end it’s the reality on the pitches that makes the difference and challenges the decisions.

The matches in which Giannikis will be judged

Whatever we say now, no matter how strong the administrative desire is for Giannikis to prove himself as the coach of the next day and the new stadium, the results will now judge his fate. After all, their signs on the part of management in the previous games are worrying.

Positions on the benches of big teams are largely secured by avoiding defeats in games with small and medium-sized teams, as is the dynamism of coaches and their consolidation in the role they have taken on with victories in derbies, in games with high Demand and Difficulty.

We’ll start on Wednesday (19/1) and count backwards as AEK will face PAOK three times in the next 40 days, definitely once against Olympiakos (which will become three if it overcomes the obstacle of the other biceps in the cup) and Aris. Panathinaikos away for the championship.

Almost 4 years have passed since the controversial Toumba game on 11/3/2018, when AEK virtually won the championship title, to be exact, a whole 46 months have passed.

Since then, the two teams have met 15 times in the league, playoffs, semi-finals and cup finals. In those matches, no matter how painful, inelegant or shameful it sounds, AEK mutated into a team with PAOK in hand (9 losses, 5 draws and only 1 win, the poor record).

So on Wednesday in Toumba (19.1, 19:00, COSMOTE SPORT 1 HD and Live from Sportish) begins Giannikis’ attempt to convince that it’s worth being on the bench at AEK, not through one, but through a series of great games, that today it’s really very difficult to see how this team can cope will.

But this is also the biggest chance for the former PAS coach to convince that there are things that can change radically, regardless of AEK support or not. After all, when he took over, he spoke of a squad with amazing quality, not of us.