The one who jumps is Olympiacos… | Blog – Michalis Tsochos

Michalis Tsochos writes about the quarter-finals of the tournament completed on Monday and explains that AEK are still the favourites, and that Panathinaikos look more capable of snatching the championship away from them, but it is Olympiacos who are making the leaps. PAOK no…

I was very curious to see how it would go, not the club, but his team Olympiaco After what happened outside the four lines and the interruption of the derby with him Panathinaikos In Karaiskakis.

I would have liked to see Martinez’s Olympiacos on Thursday in Europe and on Monday in “Jedi Koli”. Not necessarily its results, or not only its results, but its image as well. The results, performance and image with West Ham and Ovi were fantastic. A clear sign that work is being done here. A clear example of a team working independently and independent of the environment and surroundings. “We do our work within the four lines and outside them, so let it be what he wants…” Not only is it easy for this to happen with a Greek team, it is also a rare phenomenon. Further proof that Martinez does the job extremely well in all aspects.

In Crete, Olympiacos was majestic. Without Fortuny, without Rodini, with El Kaabi on the bench (i.e. without two of the team’s best players by far and with the team’s top scorer on the bench) and the scoreboard read as Aris, PAOK and AEK lost respectively, a comfortable 2-0 game, which Could be larger in scope…

I leave aside the derby that was stopped and see that Olympiacos achieved seven wins and one draw in 8 matches, with a partial score of 24-2! In short, he averages 3 goals per match and concedes one goal every four matches. “Cool” is what the kids say too. It would be even more ‘cool’ if you consider that it is a completely new team with fifteen players, a new coach, a new manager and structural changes in everything, even the way they play.

You call it unnatural. Even if you had told Marinakis in the summer that in the first 8 league matches the team would have 7 wins and 1 draw with a score of 24-2, he would have answered that it was not possible… Despite this, it is still true that Olympiacos started far behind AEK and Panathinaikos. He has a long way to go until he gets to the point where the other two are ready to work together for another year or two. We may not have seen it yet, except in the first half of the derby against Panathinaikos, but it will be seen logically during the season.

As we will see during the season (it also happened in the derby with PAOK and in Leovo with Panathinaikos) AIK excelled in certain areas. The depth of the roster remains impressive, especially in the match against PAOK, where AEK went without Livia, Araujo and Hadjisafi and with Gatsinovic, Amrabat and Pizarro on the bench…

AEK has an air of superiority in the derby. He got it last year, and he got it again this year. In the end, she was the only one to win the Derby. Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and PAOK have not yet reached the four lines. The times have passed when championship could be judged by victories in Crete or in the province in general. Now with each team playing 16 derbies (compared to four with the other top five) or even 12 derbies (if one wants to count the fixtures between just the four title contenders), county matches are few and far between.

As for Panathinaikos, it is clear that they were promoted this season with the goal of the championship. He now has depth on the roster, which he didn’t have last year, and is making the tournament for the second year in a row. The experience of last season is a great resource and I’m sure it will come through this year. The only criterion that I cannot weigh now is Europe. That is, how many of the four will advance and how far will they go? I think everyone will play European games in 2024 as well, but how many of them will play two, four or six games, I don’t know, and that certainly makes a big difference, regardless of the size and quality of their rosters.

As for Puck, I will write tomorrow, when the dust that has been raised by the wretches has settled, it is true that the appearance in New Philadelphia will be settled.