Defense mistakes are half the truth for Olympiacos… | Blog – Kostas Nikolakopoulos

Looking for K. Nikolakopoulos blogged in the newspaper about the whole truth, not the half, about Olympiacos.

Instead of introduction: I have such a patarak that I remember from Molde-Olympiacos 3-2 from 0-2. After all, she was also the champion of Norway…

In the second round of the European Cup group stage, Olympiacos achieved the worst result among all our teams. In the first match they lost, while the others won… Yesterday they tied in the 90th minute, winning 2-0, while PAOK beat both PAO and AEK in a draw and are in first place…

Bad lies Impressions on the team’s psychology are also important, as Olympiacos has lost them in this start. He now has two games in a row against group leaders West Ham before he heads to Germany for Freiburg, perhaps looking for a miracle in terms of qualifying for the Europa League knockout stages – we don’t know, realistically, whether he will do that or not. Secure a conference league ticket.

Without much So much for my opinion The individual defensive errors are obvious. In general, and especially in yesterday’s match, in which it was confirmed, for example. In Rizzo, he began to show fatigue resulting from the heavy load he had been carrying since the beginning of the season, as he played almost non-stop. When the more experienced Freire is missing from his side, even more emerges.

Errors But the defense is half the truth. Which is clearly captured so everyone can see it. However, this is half the truth. The other half is about the team’s public image. What I mean: Yesterday Olympiacos equalized in the 90th minute… Against Freiburg they lost by a goal in the 86th minute… From Genk to Karaiskaki they saved the equalizer off the post in the 96th minute… In Philadelphia AEK could have won 2-1 Either through Zini’s fireball in the 92nd minute, or through Paschalakis’ cross shot in the 92nd minute…

We can not Ignore all this. We should not throw them into defense and clean them up – we would simply be wrong. They are showing us something. The team’s inability to keep the result in its favor until the end. What can I see? Olympiacos, who achieved a good result in what is considered one of their most difficult matches, is falling behind. Gives measures to the opponent. And gives him the ball to play. Hence the potential threat. Remember, the same thing happened in every game – not just yesterday when he played with one man less for 26 minutes anyway (70′-96′).

WhyShould this be done? Does this come from the players’ survival instinct or is it part of the coach’s plan? Does the coach still not trust his team because it is still in the building phase? Or is it a characteristic of the coach that he prefers to take the team back and play for the result? Only time will tell.

this is However, yesterday we saw that Olympiacos opened the scoring in the 16th minute, and Topola set off from a cross for the attack and passed to the heart of the defence. The same should be done with the cross immediately after the score is 2-0! However, mainly, we generally saw the home team’s reaction after goals against them and not Martinez’s players playing to score another goal. In fact, at a time when, as I analyzed yesterday, the weak point of this particular team is when they concede a goal, they easily eat a second and a third. Instead of Olympiacos scoring more goals, with the goal they scored, they braked.

I think that This is the biggest problem that the Olympiacos coach and players have to solve. Because the more you step back, the more you give the other person some measures and don’t threaten them, the more chance you have of trampling on them. Yesterday, Olympiacos scored in the 57th minute and within six minutes they conceded a goal… With Freiburg they tied 1-1 in the 41st minute and within six minutes again (!) they scored a penalty kick in stoppage time of the first half. For 1-2. And when he leveled again at 2-2 in the 75th minute, he had also conceded 2-3 within 11 minutes… If you can’t score for five to ten minutes, what ambitions can you have in Europe?

from now onI won’t change my mind: the only way is to support the team now in difficult times, and perhaps even in more difficult times that may come! Anything else would just be a catastrophic mistake. Football tells us that when building a new team, it takes time. And the time is not two months. Especially when you have European commitments at the same time. Because AEK also formed a new team last year, but it did not play in Europe. She only had a game on Sunday and that was what she worked on all week.

Register Of errors (of estimated errors) of course and must be done. As well as scoring good points. Some of Olympiacos’ attacks and counter-attacks are something to behold, especially now with Podensi, where there is also a second player of added quality and not just Fortounis. There are parts of the game that he dominates without a doubt. Stages are produced, goals are scored, you name it, a lot.

There is definitely a need Better balance between defensive and offensive parts – that’s the whole secret, but also the hard part, because it needs training magic, but also time, and maybe reinforcements. Perhaps some better options are needed, although there is also a question mark here as to which options can emerge as the best. But, eg. Ortega played his most consistent game in Ioannina and remained on the bench yesterday.

Maybe he got out Quickly and Masuras with Podensi (the Portuguese felt some discomfort), arguing that if he stayed a little longer, he could then leave and Poroso could come in and Fortones would stay, so there was a creative player inside for the last 20 games. minutes. Having both El Kaabi and Jovic together after a 2-0 scoreline does not seem like the best idea, as it seems more appropriate when Olympiacos is chasing the score. Bale could come in.

Let’s beBut it’s realistic. It is a matter of a coach who first in the same minute (!) with the two substitutions (correct or incorrect) gave Ritsos a pass to the opponent from the right-back position and then everyone (Rodini, Mandy, Essie) was passed inactive and it became 1-2 and this second the opponent’s poacher Du lost. In a sprint in simple pursuit of the opponent’s defense by fouling him and thirdly, the referee, instead of a yellow card, exhausted all his severity and issued a direct red card, as a result of which Olympiacos remained with 10 men? A team now being built, playing for the first time with a lesser player away from home in Europe, it couldn’t have been easy.

By the way, in April, Olympiacos beat Aris 2-0 and a Rizzo mistake reduced the score to 70.^the Minutes for that match to also end 2-2 and for the team to suffer a very bad blow to any hopes in the title case…

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Something like this It’s football…

PAOK With Eintracht, he played in three stages and scored three goals (!), one of which was canceled due to marginal offside, and both of them were from the scheduled time! The Germans had goals, clear and classic chances, and they lost…

Panathinaikos In Israel, he conceded plenty of phases, but there weren’t many clear-cut big chances, and while he should have been happy from scratch, he could have made it two with Ioannidis heading over the crossbar, and Mladenovic eventually developed…

Eek He can lose easily in the beginning, but it is easier to win in the end with the Johnson Quadruple. I think the most balanced game of the three, in terms of chances, is pretty fair X.

By the wayLet us not forget that Jovanovic and Lucescu are in their third year on the bench for their teams, Almeida is in his second year, and Martinez is in his third month.

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with you Drakias is the French referee Bastien, I completely analyzed him before the match – and now everyone has seen him. It simply goes beyond certain limits for an elite referee to play you in two matches, in the same country (Serbia) and leave you with 10 players in one (with Red Star Benzia going off in the 53rd minute) and in the other (with Topola going off) and Du in 70′)! Especially when this referee systematically avoided punishing Serbian players with yellow cards, in obvious cases such as fouls on Podense, Mandi, Fortuny. The guy pulled out one foul card in the entire game (the other two were for delay and protest) and it was straight red!!!

Options UEFA places a Dutch referee in Olympiacos’ match with a German and French team. Olympiacos’ match again with a Serbian team stinks, from here to Switzerland…