The K. Nikolakopoulos analyzes in his Gazzetta blog how Olympiacos reached the equalizer from Kallithea.
Medilibar said after the game against Kallithea that his team should not have given the corner from which the equalizer came. But let’s look at the condition that brought this corner.
Cat΄ firstRetsos committed a foul on the opposing forward, because he simply went second on the ball. And so he put the home team in the area of Tzolakis. The free-kick, however, was far enough away to create no danger, with Garcia getting a header and clearing the ball and Zelson trying to counter-attack, unsuccessfully.
The ball reaches the goalkeeper of Kallithea to fill up. So at that moment, the layout and organization of the Olympiakos line-up does not exist! She is the worst she could be! And really no wonder.
See here is the photo.
On the right side, there are four Kallithea players and Rodiney!!! Normally, we should stop the narrative here… It’s the 91st minute, the opposing goalkeeper “fills up” and it’s four to one on the right side of Olympiakos. And there are the two attackers of Kallithea with Retso and Karmo. That is, a total of six from Kallithea and three from Olympiakos!!!
Where are the other Olympiacos players? Yaremchuk went to press the goalkeeper!!! In the 91st minute – brilliant! Zelson is somewhere on the left, exhausted from his previous effort…Kostoulas is also somewhere in the middle of nowhere…Pirola and Masoura are completely left, marking the opponent…no one! And Ese right in the center. To win narrowly, to have the game reach 91′ and half of your players to be out of the match!!
THE goalkeeper so it fills up and one of the four of Kallithea takes the lead from Rodiney. Retsos is forced to go to the right to cover, only his position is not covered by the one he should be, Garcia. So when the pass over Rezzo, who failed to cut, reaches Gianni, Carmo had to step aside and clear for a corner. The continuation is known, with the good execution of the corner and the scorer Gianni jumping on his own!!! See in the photo where the scorer is, at 18.
Such team disorganization in the 91st minute, with the opposing goalkeeper doing yoma, it’s really hard to come across. And the worst, to continue this lack of organization even in the execution of the corner. Don’t have any complaints afterwards because Olympiacos conceded the goal in the 92nd minute. It’s not just that he was “inviting” Kallithea to attack him at the end with his passive attitude. It’s also that he didn’t even play good defense. Let me remind you that three minutes before the 1-1, in the 89th minute, Gianni found himself again alone at the second post of Tzolakis and simply did not catch his spectacular left-footed shot that he tried to catch from an excellent position, unmarked by Rodiney, on a cross from right. The goal didn’t happen in the 89th minute, it happened in the 92nd minute.
Let’s be realists. This was not an image of Olympiakos in the last minutes. A fundamentally good defense had to play. Nothing else. And he failed to do that too. By the way, I fail to understand why the defensive line had to be changed in the 85′ – unless Apostolopoulos was injured, I can’t see why Retsos came on. Pirola was fine in the heart of the defense. The Italian had cleaned everything. Why should your long-time best defender leave the center of defense and go play on the wings? The only reason for Retsos to enter (e.g. instead of Zelson) was to play a third stopper on Gianni, because in the end Kallithea played everything for everything and passed many players forward.
Tragichowever, was also the reaction of Olympiakos after the 1-1 draw. 2.5 minutes of football were played after the equaliser. A little? All that had to be played. But of course a lot is done in 2.5 minutes. How can they be done, however, when in these 2.5 minutes Ese gives the ball to the opponent… When Rodiney instead of crossing goes to dribble and not only is he cut down, but he commits a foul himself, getting a yellow card… But and when in the two days of Tzolakis, in one of Retsus and in the two crosses of Garthia and Zelson, one of his players cannot Olympiakos to take a header…
Bad lies, Olympiacos did not show personality as a team yesterday. His image at the end of the match was completely problematic. Like it or not, that’s the truth.
Irrelevant: It is not an honor for Olympiakos to have played four times with newly enlightened and stalwart Kallithea and to have two victories with a thousand efforts (2-1, 1-0) and two draws (1-1). And yesterday was the highlight, with the Kallithea team without a coach, with an official on the bench, Antonis Priona, who was last on the team bench 10 years ago, at Asteras Magoulas.
Photo of the day:
The spiritual Olympiakos’ unpreparedness to play yesterday’s match was shouted from afar. You could see it first from Tzolakis, regardless of the lack of responsibility in the goal. However, when you see him in a corner kick and a harmless header come out and not block the ball, but drive it away, you understand a lot… And what you understand becomes a certainty, when in another corner kick he comes out and doesn’t even block the ball, nor “cleans” by driving away.
Nowfor this painful story with the static phases in this year’s Olympiakos, there are no more words. Rodiney, Velde executed from a corner, Oliveira two, plus three fouls around the Kallithea area. Result, zero danger for her goalkeeper. You expect Oliveira to at least have a good set-up. And he can’t do that either. With the climax of the direct execution of a foul from a good position with a shot…childish on the goalkeeper.
And finally an emoji 🤔
Yaremchuk was crying about the mask
They order him a special mask for his face
He throws her in the first 2 minutes#OlympiacosFC
— Thanos🔴⚪ (@onoufrios007) December 16, 2024
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