Panathinaikos plays at home to Rennes, for the 4th matchday of its groups Europa League (19:45, Newsit.grCOSMOTE SPORT 4) and knows that he needs a positive result to continue competing in Europe in 2024.
About two weeks after its home defeat by Rennes (2-1), Panathinaikos is called upon to get a result tonight against the -leader of the 6th group of the Europa League- French teamto continue this year’s European course and after the December.
Eon French soil, Panathinaikos does not have a good… traditionin all UEFA competitions. Swith a total of seven matches, the “clover” he has not recorded a single victory (he has experienced defeat five times, while counting two more ties).
His team Ivan Jovanovic has 4 points in Group 6, she will compete in “Riazhon Park” having about 1500 of her friends in the stands, but does not have available ther the long-term injured Eric Palmer-Brown and Hordur Magnusson, as well as Juancar, who has also not recovered from his injury problem since the Olympiacos derby.
From there, Bruno Genesio does not count on the help of the main players Steve Mandada and Bertug Yildirim, as both are injured, while instead Christopher Wu and Ibrahim Salah return to his disposal. Rennes has 6 points and knows that with a victory it will “lock” a “ticket” for the next phase of the competition.
The possible compositions of the two teams:
Rennes (Bruno Genesio): Guyon – Assignon, Omari, Belosian, Trifer – Matic, Borizot, Le Fe – Blais, Calimuendo, Terrier.
Panathinaikos (Ivan Jovanovic): Brignoli, Vagiannidis, Senkefeld, Jedvai, Mladenovic, Arao, Cerin, Bernard, Palasios, Ioannidis, Mancini.
Referee: William Collum (Scotland).
Subs: Francis Connor, David McGeachy (Scotland).
4th Referee: David Dickinson (Scotland).
VAR: Kevin Clancy (Scotland).
AVAR: Nicholas Walsh (Scotland).