Dimitris Tsorbatzoglou writes about the bad image of PAOK in the first cup match with AEK, the role of the referee in the match and the responsibility of sports justice in the events of Iliopoulos and others.
When the PAOK plays a match with so many disadvantages on his back and loses 1-0, then he can be optimistic that in the second match which will be played under normal conditions, he can also get the qualification.
The appearance of Lucescu’s team in the first part of the match against AEK was disgusting. They didn’t come down. They didn’t exist. They weren’t playing anything. No consistency. No attempt or ability to create an attack. No confidence in ball handling. Players like Tyson and Constantelias who touched the ball for the first time in the 25′ and 40′! Lost every first ball from the fills. No effort on the second either. Trivia, fear of the mistake and simply… prayers that Kotarski will get what he gets, or that AEK will lose it themselves. A shame for a first half where even the excuses of schedule and fatigue can hardly be supported.
How during this time the eleven of AEK and the Italian who entered determined to support them and stimulate them in their dynamic game, “managed” to stay at 0-0 against 5-6 PAOK players who simply justified their presence on the field, it was a mystery that mainly the home team should worry. Just like how 2-0 in Philly became 2-2 and how 1-2 in Tuba became 3-2 bothered them (?) last year…
In the replay, PAOK entered the game betting on Samatas! So when the coach realized (for various reasons) that with normal football in this match he had no luck, he decided to put Samata who really distinguished himself in this thing that PAOK played yesterday and helped the team to balance. A few headers in the contest, and a couple of four-five meter controls and the match was played as long as the Italian Sosa allowed, who even in the delays was afraid to give the foul on Samata.
The Italian is one of the leaders of AEK
Rota’s cramping laugh from the many…falls to win a free-kick when Ozdoev was booked for protesting after another dive by the Union right-back says it all about Italian Sosa’s role yesterday. For an unexplained reason from the beginning until the foul on Samata, he showed that he should play for AEK, as Spathas once played for Olympiakos! Mistakes for both are normal. A mistake – even a big one – is tolerable. 100-0 to all odds in such a match by an Italian referee borders on the suspect, as will the appointment of a German in Toumba for the second match. In all the big matches Germans come, yesterday an Italian “had” to play and give every questionable foul, cross, corner, everything to AEK, whose players were constantly falling and being rewarded, while PAOK’s players only got fouls if they fell victim grip on the fight! Endless foul whistles, culminating in the Rota dives, as in the finale of the first part, where the Mukudi phase came from. The home team’s comfort in the duels when they understood what was going on and the nerves of the PAOK players, had a role in the image of the match and it is another match this year in which anyone who talks about black and white and favour, must be arrested as dangerous.
Sports justice is responsible for the events of Iliopoulos and others
The absolute responsibility for what happened last night in Philadelphia by Iliopoulos, Pereira (as alleged by Vieirania) and the fans in the parking lot, lies with sports justice! Their scandalous impunity in last year’s AEK-PAOK match when Lucescu was accused of fighting with two people from the Union, but in the end only he was punished, helped yesterday to feel the immunity for all the attacks they did again! I also wrote it then about the moral perpetrators of the next events in this field and the confirmation came just a few weeks later.
The only difference is that we can criticize Lucescu when he slips up. It happened in the last game too. That is why we have the right, but also the obligation, to speak now for others. Whoever does the Chinese thing when Almeida grabs a policeman by the throat, whoever just laughs at Iliopoulos and his antics, what does their opinion matter about anything else?
Fortunately, there are cellphones that “recorded” all of yesterday’s events, although PAOK, by order of Giorgos Savvidis, did not report anything about the events in the parking lot either.
This is PAOK… The team that, on top of everything, with Gagatsis as president in the EPO, can be wronged in a match even with Agrotiko Asteras… The team that, with this League, can sometimes play four matches a week, or to be invited to play a championship match on New Year’s Day, when everyone will be wondering what Lucescu means by the system that.. for a fight with two others, only he was punished!
You are PAOK… Luckily there is AEK and Iliopoulos will wake up the system…
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