The football gods honored Constantia’s magical moment

PAOK, after committing suicide in Tripoli with Asteras, had to play a “final” against the first favorite in this year’s tournament. Only by winning can he stay in the fight for the title and the first duet.

This time luck smiled on PAOK

Luck is also needed in football, an element that played a decisive role, so that PAOK was lower in the standings than it deserved. This time the ball smiled at him. He allowed him to take the lead on his first chance, scoring 2 goals with 5 finishes and winning 2-0 in a match with a 0.5-0.8× goal.

But the truth is that it would not be fair for this team, which in the second round proved its superiority on the field and that it is superior to Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, to be excluded from the battle before the playoffs.

Constantia’s unique magic moment

The football god has given back a very small part of what was denied him from PAOK this season and above all he respected Costandelias’ great efforts.

Young PAOK did something unique, something that has never been done before and will never happen again, simply because no one can replicate it. He did something like a display of skill, which people who played soccer on the beach do, in the toughest of conditions. In a match without tomorrow for his team, in the most difficult area, in the semicircle of the large area.

We also said it on Game Night, that Kostandelias does something magical without ever intending to stage a scene. He didn’t enter a stage with the aim of driving the platform crazy, he simply found himself on the ground, the ball came towards him, he saw his teammate unmarked in the shooting position and used his quality to get the ball to him where he imagined, to give his teammates the chance to execute.

No twists of the ball helped him when it came to his own miracle. In the unrepeatable moment of his creation, the ball heard exactly what he tried to do, he brought the ball lying from his leg to his shoulder, from his shoulder again to his leg, and from his leg, lying as it were with three magic touches serving it to my fire.

The ball, the goddess of the football planet, generously gave him all the glory of the moment. They helped so that this action would not go down in history simply as a rare football moment, the product of Kostantelia’s technical coaching, but would go down in history as the final creation, in a very important goal, which ultimately decided a derby with AEK and gave the kiss of life to his team. A nary execution found Vida, the ball changed course and caught Athanasiades off guard.

With 15 minutes left in the first half, AEK closed PAOK in their own area

PAOK managed to take advantage of this goal and preserve the victory, without having to take the ball and risk their game. There were moments that he found difficult, especially in the 1-0 run until the end of the first half.

At this point, AEK showed just how tough a team it had become to Greek standards. He managed to keep PAOK down for a long time. Zivkovic and Narri lost a lot of meters, as a result, Hajisafi and Rota were high and this fact created the conditions for AEK to have many players for a long time in the PAOK area.

It is not easy to remember in a match against a good PAOK that the opponent was always in the areas where AEK was, from the 15th minute to the end of the first half.

Reaction at the beginning of the second half

In the replay, however, the game took on a different look. Lucescu’s players came out with the momentum that started the game and in the first half, in the first attack, they opened the PAOK defense, but Nari was quick to leave on the back of Hajisafi and the fact that Costantilias entered the empty net, had little value, but the message was delivered.

The luck of PAOK was that without having to do many offensive things, they succeeded both in their first attack and in the first and second half.

We mentioned AEK last year, the defense’s reaction to the second goal

If the goal in the 14th minute came from a unique moment that was not dealt with, because no one expected it, and from a gag in a fiery execution for the second goal, AEK’s defense has no excuse.

It was a bad moment that reminds us of last year’s photo defending it. Nari crossed deep into the penalty area, and the ball rose and fell, giving the defense and goalkeeper time to react.

Stuck on his line, Athanasiadis lost the stage and didn’t take advantage of the time he had to act, oddly enough, this slow junction took out a stage one on one in a small area and in the duel that set up, Koulierakis Szymanski won.

AEK did not give the right to create chances through stealing

It was reasonable for AEK to apply pressure after the second goal, but this time PAOK held on to win big. The match between PAOK and AIK was not a simple match. It was a game where there was no room for error and a testament to the progress this team has made since the first derby match at the OPAP Arena.

I remember that in that game, AEK hit a bit, exposing PAOK’s initial development efforts from below, which prompted Dandas to make many mistakes. For a long time, since that match, the Portuguese lost the starting position, while many things have changed in the team in the roles and constants of Lucescu.

I typed it a few times, Kurtic stopped counting, Augusto went biaxial, and Constantelias passed behind Oliveira, in the space allowing him to have an orgy. Also, the ball ceased to be forced to pass through the center “6” and go to the ends so often that a possible foul would not bring an obvious chance to the opponent, as it happened in New Philadelphia in the first round. .

Anyone who watched a first-round match and knows how AEK presses and what Dadas pulled against them would have thought the Romanian coach wouldn’t use it. However, he had no problem doing so, as there was simply no chance of AEK being trapped again, giving them the right to hold onto his team’s territory.

There were times when Almeida’s well-functioning team made life difficult for PAOK, but he never let them create a chance through their pressure.

Eck It was happening Dangerous only when he has possession against organized opponents and so he has had some good moments but no great chances, which he makes right by winning the ball in the opponent’s 1/3. It was an important point in the match, of course besides PAOK’s luck to find a goal in their first final in every half.

However, the ranking does not do PAOK justice, and AEK remains the favourite

Of course, football cannot always take from you, at some point you will give it. Lucescu’s team played like cat and mouse against Olympiacos not scoring, wasting 20 finals, and staying 0-0 in a match with 1.5-0.2 on xgoals. A few weeks later, he managed to beat AEK 2-0 in a match where the finals were 5-16 and he scored 2 goals with chances of 0.5 x goal.

However, the championship rating still darkens it, a much better -7 separating it from its first-place performances. After all, he has proven it in the three games he played in one week for Panathinaikos.

AEK were beaten in Toumba, showing defensive weaknesses in the second goal, and having difficulty creating clear chances when the ball is at their feet against a high level of competition, but there were periods when they also produced very good numbers.

Rare qualities in the Greek league, we know she possesses, and despite the defeat in Toumba, it makes her look like the favorite to win the league. Of course, this outcome keeps everyone in the loop.

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