With new "weapons" in its quiver, with extra… problems but also without Loizos Loizou, Omonia will seek an immediate return to winning ways against Paphos FC tonight (17:00). After all, after last week's mess, the "need" became much greater, since she is quite behind the top and mainly wants to restore optimism and faith in the ranks of her world through a convincing performance. In her home, which is impregnable, she wants to make a new start and go to the consecutive derbies with a raised mentality and less pressure.
Mariusz Stepinski and Dusan Bakic, even though they only had their first training session on Thursday, are in the squad and it is not excluded that the first one will also take the starting jersey at the top of the attack. On the other hand, Loizos Loizou is not in it, and this leads to the conclusion that he will spread his wings abroad, since Heerenfein Holland has been "pushing" for a long time.
From there, Cetil Rekdal clearly saw weaknesses in the previous match. And it is considered certain that Koulibali will return to the defense and together with Panagiotou they will form the defensive duo and Letsiaks will play on the left, since again due to injury Cipriano is not available, while Matthews will be on the right wing after he entered the pitch the Psalmist. In the center will remain the same (Kousoulos, Charalambous, Bezos) since Bashirou is not available due to a muscle problem.
Finally, in the attack, predictions cannot be made due to the newcomers, the absences of Semedo and Ansarifard, while Alium is injured and will definitely miss the new derby with Apollo. So, the only sure thing in the attack line is Simic.
Proceeding without Ansarifard
The match against APOEL on December 23, where he played as a substitute, was Karim Ansarifard's last game with Omonia. The Iranian striker, who is in the Asian Cup, has been left out of the plans and will not be on the A-list, and given that he is out of contract in the summer, he is effectively a thing of the past a few months early. He'll either stay and just not be on the roster, or he'll say "goodbye" and go to another team. In the two years he was at "Ilias Pullos" he scored 10 goals and distributed 10 assists in 61 games.
Panagiotis Zachariou is also out of the plans, according to the official information.