Placing behind them the ban from Noah and their mediocre European performances, AEK entered the league on a successful notice with a straightforward 3-0 win over OFI on the suspended OPAP Enviornment.
Livai Garcia (11'), Stavros Pelios (14') and Steven Tzuber (83') scored objectives for Matias Almeida's staff who missed probabilities for a wider victory over the disappointing Cretans.
Union followers didn't get an opportunity to witness an incredible first half hour from their staff. The primary aim, a fishy header by Levia (11'), was merely the end result of an exquisite partnership between Abubakari Koita, Orbelin Pineda, Robert Ljubisic and Nordin Amrabat. The second got here from Damian Simanski's lengthy cross, with Pelios (14') bringing the ball down, beating Matheus Bressan and inserting Nikos Christogeorgos as a striker for 2-0. Maiden shirt of the 24-year-old left again with the AEK jersey.
Along with the objectives, the house staff missed different probabilities, with Levia lacking a deflected shot within the fifth minute, Christogeorgos impressively retaining out Amrabat's highly effective volley within the ninth minute, Szymanski capturing excessive within the seventeenth minute and Pineda not finds the goal with a strong header within the twenty sixth minute. Till the break, Pelios' weak shot (42') and Ljubisic's misdirected header (43') adopted. The Cretans of Trajan Della are lacking…
AEK continued to pressurize and never let OFI get uncontrolled, with out nonetheless creating the phases of the primary half. Within the fifty fifth minute, the primary likelihood got here for the guests, with Thomas Strakosias clearing the close to publish of Yiannis Apostolakis who had simply entered the match for a nook.
The hosts turned up the tempo once more, with Pineda, Ljubisic getting confused and never making the most of Christogeorgos' dangerous exit within the sixty fifth minute and, typically, taking part in in a rush somewhat than shortly and precisely regardless of discovering many open lanes in the direction of the opposing space. Almeida's modifications helped, this time, AEK who reached a 3rd aim within the 83'. Petros Mandalos discovered Pelios in the back of the protection, the full-back turned to Tzumber who scored without delay for 3-0. It was additionally the ultimate rating in a premiere supreme for the Union after the European thrashing, with OFI being requested to right the dangerous texts for a greater continuation.
AEK (Matias Almeida): Strakosia, Rota (66' Odubajo), Vida, Mukudi, Pelios, Simanski, Pineda (66' Lamela), Amrabad, Koita (80' Pereira), Ljubisic (80' Mandalos), Levia (66' Chuber).
OFI (Traianos Dellas): Christogeorgos, Bresan, Lambropoulos, Gonzales, Hatzitheodoridis (81' Jung), Karachalios (64' Jimeneths), Gagegos (81' Koutentakis), Bakits, Riera (64' Abada), Nash (55' Apostolakis). , Iseka.
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