OFI PAOK LIVE STREAMING: THE PAOK chasing this year’s first “double” at OFI headquarterswho is “burning” for victory.
OFI and PAOK measure their strength today (Sunday 18/9) in Heraklion, for the fifth matchday of the Super League (19:00, Cosmote Sports 1).
The hosts are in a difficult position, since they have just one win – this one against Volos – in the four games they have played so far and are in 12th place in the standings with 3 points.
Nikos Nioplia’s team wants to reverse the heavy climate and to celebrate her first victory in the Gendi Kule.
In this effort, the Cretan coach will have new faces at his disposal, Zerkan, Perea, Guerrero and Bifuma.
In fact, Perea has left a good impression and there are increased chances of seeing him compete.
PAOK, on the other hand, travels to Crete in pursuit of this year’s first double. Razvan Lucescu’s team is in second place in the standings with 10 points, counting three wins in Toumba and a draw in the only away match they have played so far against Aris.
The Romanian coach does not face any particular competitive problems in the battle against the Cretans.
Omar El Kadouri served his sentence and returned to action, while Dominpik Kotarski also recovered from the injury that plagued him.
Rafa Soares was left out of the team for tactical reasons, while Balomanos, Ricardo and Qualiata are in the PAOK B team. Absent from the game is the injured Giannis Michailidis.
The possible lineups:
OFI (Nikos Nioplias): Stevens, Pasalidis, Diamantis, Vouros, Larson, Thorarinson, Duce, Meyado, Bouzoukis, Kamau, Diko
PAOK (Razvan Lucescu): Kotarski, Lyratzis, Ingason, Koulierakis, Vieirinia, Kurtic, Augusto, Thiago Dandas, Zivkovic, Narey, Oliveira.
Referee: Tasos Sidiropoulos
Assistants: Polychronis Kostaras, Tryfon Petropoulos
4th: Michalis Matsoukas
VAR: Tasos Papapetrou
OFI PAOK LIVE STREAMING: The stats
For the 46th time, the two teams will meet, with OFI having built an important tradition in the past and PAOK trying to balance the situation in recent years.
The two teams met for the first time in Crete on February 2, 1969, in OFI’s first participation in the First National League and the match ended in a 1-1 draw thanks to goals from Papoutsakis and Mitrakas.
OFI maintained its unbeaten streak at home for seven matches and PAOK’s first victory in Crete was on November 30, 1980 with two goals from Vassilis Vasilakos.
The very next season, PAOK scored a second consecutive 1-0 victory thanks to a goal by Christos Dimopoulos in the 85th minute.
Since then, there have been 20 visits by PAOK to Crete in which OFI remained unbeaten for 20 consecutive matches, from the defeat in 1981 until September 2002, when PAOK prevailed 3-2.
During this period, OFI won 14 of the 20 matches, while the other 6 ended in a draw.
During this time, he went on a streak of 8 consecutive victories, from September 1992 until February 2001, when their match also ended in a 0-0 draw.
OFI’s biggest victory is 4-0 and came for the first time on February 19, 1984, while it was repeated on September 12, 1992.
The most popular result between the two teams is 2-1 which has appeared 8 times, followed by a 1-1 draw with six appearances.
OFI has started the league with two defeats at home and three in total in four matches, something that has happened since 2018-19, when it was defeated by PAOK 3-1 and AEK 3-0, while it prevailed in the third at home against of Olympiakos with 1-0.
OFI – PAOK
45 MEETINGS
22 WINS OFI
13 TIES
10 PAOK WINS
GOAL: 72-53
OFI PAOK LIVE STREAMING: Today’s press
Aitor’s orgies, AEK’s victory in Agrinio and today’s matches in Thessaloniki and Crete stand out in the Morning Press.
Read below excerpts from today’s sports newspaper articles…
BABIS Tsimpidas – LIVESPORT
Sometimes, a football player’s performance doesn’t just…speak. “Screaming.” Because this is what Aitor is doing, with the orgies that have started just before Christmas 2021. The Spaniard is now the catalyst of Panathinaikos, that is not in doubt. Despite the arrival of Bernard, the quality of Palacios, the ability of Sporar, the leader of the team is Aitor.
Aitor was the absolute protagonist of Trefoil, in a match that had the conditions to “go wrong”.
To conclude, not many words are needed. It is the management’s duty to ensure that this player stays here for many years. Renew yesterday!
PANOS LOUPOS – TIME
The only thing we cared about yesterday’s AEK game in Agrinio was obviously the three points. However, in order for AEK to be competitive this year and win the championship, they should gradually improve as a team and play good football.
And yesterday in Agrinio, apart from the coveted “three points”, AEK Almeida showed us that they are improving and can play good football.
Pressure, runs, endurance, excellent passing game. This, gentlemen, is the work of Matias Almeida and it was a given even after the bad results in the games with Volos and PAO, that he would come. And yesterday we saw a small sample of AEK and the work being done in Spata, by Almeida and his colleagues.
ARIS NIKOLAKIS – METROSPORT
This PAOK, in Heraklion, has the opportunity tonight to renew its self-confidence as a team, as a group of coaches and players. And on the other hand, the trust of his world! The main goal in our humble opinion!
The trust that this PAOK, in its three previous matches in the Championship, did not renew. PAOK had not renewed it either, since the end of the regular season of last year’s Championship and since the semi-final of the Cup with Olympiakos…
CHRISTOS MEGLIDES – LIGHT
In all the last years, the matches between Aris and Olympiakos, both in Thessaloniki, where tonight’s match will take place, and in Piraeus, have had an ambiguous form. Aris almost always troubles Olympiakos, who in the end finds a way to get results with victories at the limit, with some draws that didn’t “hurt” him, but also with a qualification to the Cup with that strange goal by Andreas Bouchalakis “hidden” in the post , which surprised Julián Cuesta.
Today’s game looks completely different from everything and this time – more than any other – Aris shows the ability not only to prevent Olympiacos from reaching the three points, but to celebrate it himself.
GIORGOS HELAKIS – SPORTDAY
A victory with statistical importance, but also psychological. For long periods of the game in Agrinio, AEK played good football. Especially her first 20 minutes in the game, she was excellent. Perhaps the best that Matias Almeida’s team has to show in this year’s championship. Many vertical passes speed development and inventions. Pineda was the driving force, but so was Vida, who left his position and came forward for help. Overall judging, however, the player who stood out or if Gacinovic.
The return to active action of Galanopoulos after a year’s absence is an important event. I hope he is strong and strong because AEK needs him, of course, but also the national team. The complaints of the team in Agrinio from referee Diamantopoulos, who left Rota’s hard play unpunished, are understandable. However, AEK was obviously superior and deservedly came away victorious from Agrinio.
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