2024 ended with plenty of stress for Olympiakos within the championship.
Nevertheless, the underside line is that the brand new 12 months will discover the Piraeus crew alone first within the Tremendous League standings.
Within the opening match of the sixteenth matchday, the “purple and whites” as soon as once more discovered it very troublesome at house, this time in opposition to Lamia, however with a aim by Martins from an help by Costinia, who was the highest artistic participant of his crew, the Mendiliber gamers took the three factors profitable 1-0.
The unimaginable sluggishness with which the hosts entered the match allowed Lamia to simply attain their very own space and miss two excellent probabilities to take the lead, with Tzolakis saving Athanasakopoulos' highly effective shot within the 2nd minute and the worldwide goalkeeper the identical within the fifteenth minute with Enrique's effort, who had “cleared” Carmo and Pirola.
Within the twenty fourth minute, Radonia shot previous the left submit of Olympiakos, the folks within the stands have been upset concerning the dangerous picture of the “purple and whites” and Mendiliber determined that they’d seen sufficient… Within the twenty seventh minute, Biancone changed Carmos, from which Vaskos had many complaints, the gamers of the Piraeus crew received the message and determined to run, inflicting the image to alter drastically.
Within the twenty eighth minute Kostoulas missed a header, within the fortieth minute a tepid shot by El Kaabi was blocked by the defenders a meter earlier than the road, within the 42th minute the Moroccan guarded the ball, turned and shot over the bar, whereas within the first minute of the stoppage time noticed VAR deny him his sixteenth aim of the 12 months by indicating offside in borderline section, through which nonetheless they have been solely barely forward.
With the time decreased by half, Olympiacos entered the replay furiously, had an excellent however simply missed shot by Mouzakitis within the forty eighth minute, noticed Tzolakis making one other troublesome save on Enriques' try (51') and some minutes later Costinia changed Rodinei.
The Portuguese full-back instantly made his presence felt and on the identical time as soon as once more raised the query of how it’s attainable for him to not play extra: two minutes after coming into he gave a “ready-made” aim to Oliveira, who shot from the peak with a nasty physique place of the penalty in… the sky of “G. Karaiskakis”.
Within the sixty fourth minute, nonetheless, Zelson Martins didn’t waste the “present” of Costinias, who with a magical flip from the appropriate to the second submit gave his compatriot the chance to beat Raton from shut vary, breaking the Gordian hyperlink of the aim for the “purple and whites” and scoring his seventh aim for the Piraeus membership.
Within the 76th minute, from one other horrible ball from Costinia, Raton blocked El Kaabi's header after which Cicinho despatched the ball out with a strong shot, whereas within the 87th minute, the Portuguese's shot was blocked in his nook by Raton, in his final probability battle.
OLYMPIACOS (Jose Luis Mendiliber): Tzolakis, Rodinei (58' Costinia), Pirola (82' Retsos), Carmo (27' Biancone), Ortega, Garcia, Mouzakitis (58' Oliveira), Tsiquinho, Costoulas (82' Velde), Martins, El Kaabi.
LAMIA (Leonidas Vokolos): Raton, Radonia, Siovas (90'+1 Saramantas), Kornezos, Andrade, Dentakis, Vitlis, Doiranlis, Ring (68' Vlahomitros), Athanasakopoulos (90'+1 Tereziou), Enriques.
