The big top derby between AEK and Panathinaikos stands out from Sunday's program of the 18th round of the Stoiximan Super League. Olympiacos plays away to Kifissia, PAOK welcomes PAS Ioannina.
Panaitolikos – Aris
Kick-off is at 15:00 in Agrinio, where promoted Panaitolikos , who managed to catch a breather in the rankings recently, hosts Aris , who comes from the derby victory over PAOK, with his mind of course on the Cup rematch that follows with AEK.
Panaitolikos is asked to manage two important absences, those of Oikonomou and Baldasara who are injured and are not counted. The team of the "cyano-yellows" where Diaz returned after a while consists of Kapino, Mladen, Karelis, Belevonis, Huanpi, Hatzitheodoridis, Fr. Duarte, Bouzoukis, Dias, Torrejon, B. Duarte, Sengelia, Stergiakis, Peres, Mavrias, Tsingaras, Pedro, Malis, Stagits, Liavas, Nikolaou.
Ares decimated in Agrinio. To be precise, the suspended Moron, the injured Cuesta, Jules, Veleth, Verstrate, Rupp, Pardo, Odubazzo, Fabiano, who are burdened, and Matarita, Carlson, Christodoulopoulos, are out of action. The mission included Houtesiotis, Kyriazis, Montoya, Ferrari, Brambets, Roz, Darinda, Ducoure, Manu Garthia, Dzouracek, Pavicic, Suleimanov, Menendes, Saverio, Zamora, Fetfatzidis, Delizisis, Panagidis and Agorastos.
Kifissia – Olympiacos
At 17:00 in Kaisariani, Olympiacos wants to return to winning ways and start to react by facing the bottom Kifisia .
With many absences, Kifisia will line up. Bothia, Landre and Tettey will serve suspensions for completing cards, with the first two also suffering from injuries. Both Tsapan and Papasavvas, who suffered a contusion in training, are knocked out of the match. The injured Pritsas and Schneiderlan are out, while Loumor is not in the squad for tactical reasons. From there on, the newly acquired Bosnian left back, Ivan Milicevic, is on the mission for the first time, while Nini returns. The Kifissia team: Anagnostopoulos, Kristinson, Nikopolidis, Vafeas, Parras, Gobelic, Masouras, Milicevics, Spinos, Sbokos, Peios, Ninis, Iliev, Soloa, Ipalibo, Konstantakopoulos, Ozegovics, Santos, Klonaridis, Bifuma, Anderegen.
Olympiacos did not announce an assignment with Carlos Carvalhal not having at his disposal the suspended Esse, El Kabi who is absent in the African Cup of Nations, Alexandropoulos and Richards who will protect themselves and the injured Freire, Porosso, Biel.
Asteras Tripoli – Volos
Half an hour later (17:30) in Tripoli, Asteras wants to get back to winning ways and stay in the top six by hosting Volos , who has three negative results in the last games, continuing to fight to climb even further in the standings.
For the first time, Yablonski, who was acquired a few days ago, is among Astera's elite. On the other hand, Bartolo and Cito returned to the team while García, Atienda, Valiente and the suspended Diarra were left out. The squad in detail: Papadopoulos, Grammatikakis, Houhoumis, Carmona, Kastanio, Alvares, Christopoulos, Zukanovics, Goss, Yablonski, Bartolo, Munafos, Sourlis, Sito, Alagbe, Zouglis, Miritelos, Regis, Mantzis, Kaltsas
Angel Lopez sees Chokanis and Myga overcome their problems and come back. On the contrary, Alcho remains out, while Kalogeropoulos and Metaxas will not be available due to infection. Also, the Spanish coach is counting on the recently acquired Rasic for the first time. The Volos team: Kostic, Kovacs, Papadopoulos, Sielis, Aslanidis, Rasits, Luna, Kitsos, Mygas, Tsokanis, Glavcits, Barrientos, Trouillet, Koba, Deletics, Karagiannis, Bertoglio, Moraitis, Garcia.
AEK – Panathinaikos
The big derby of the day in New Philadelphia will kick off at 20:30 with AEK after the victory over Olympiakos looking for another big game that will give them the opportunity to overtake Panathinaikos at the top. The "Greens" are looking for a winning derby result after a while and if they get it they will leave the Union five points behind.
The positive thing for Matias Almeida, especially in this period of consecutive and demanding matches in January, is that the problems have decreased. Mandalos is available again, normally in view of tomorrow's derby, Sidibe has been training since the day before yesterday, while Galanopoulos was doubtful. AEK did not announce a squad, with the given absences being the well-known internationals Mukudi, Zini, Hadjisafi and Mohammadi.
In Panathinaikos, in addition to the "known" absentees Palasios, Djurisic, Magnuson, Palmer-Brown, Cherin and Geremegev were added. The first was left out due to discomfort in the right thigh, and the second because he is also not 100% ready. The goalie Brignoli is also out of the mission, who was left out of the team, and in addition to Lodingin, the young goalkeepers Xenopoulos and Margono were included. The Panathinaikos squad: Lodingin, Xenopoulos, Margono, Vaiannidis, Huancar, Ruben, Senkefeld, Zeka, Ioannidis, Bernard, Limnios, Tserin, Mancini, Tsokai, Jedvai, Aitor, Mladenovic, Kotsiras, Vilena, Arao, Verbic.
PAOK – PAS Ioannina
At the same time (20:30) in Toumba, PAOK will seek to take advantage of the losses that will occur from the OPAP Arena derby and will try to return to the three points by welcoming PAS Ioannina who continues to fight in the queue.
Due to discomfort, Vieirania will be absent for PAOK. Samata and Trost-Ekong, who are in Ivory Coast ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations, remain out. In detail, the players Razvan Lucescu will have at his disposal are: Kotarski, Zivkovic, Lyratzis, Sastre, Kenziora, Koulierakis, Michaelidis, Baba, Rafa Soares, Schwab, Ozdoev, Meite, Markos Antonio, Constantelias, Murg, Tyson, A .Zivkovic, Despontov, Brandon, Jimas.
Pamlidis, who was doubtful, is finally not at the disposal of Michalis Grigoriou. The coach of Epirus cannot also count on the suspended Tsaousis and Tsima. The team of PAS Ioannina: Kleiman, Athanasiou, Bortagarai, Leo, Pantelakis, Eramouspe, Karachalios, Naoumis, Soria, Kiakos, Liassos, Rienstra, Gino, Soulis, Panagou, Bakadimas, Conte, Balan, Rosero, Kirkos, Eford, Begala.
The program
15:00 Panaitolikos – Aris
17:00 Kifisia – Olympiacos
17:30 Asteras Tripoli – Volos
20:30 AEK – Panathinaikos
20:30 PAOK – PAS Ioannina
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