Olympiacos – Lamia 4-1 / Comfortable victory for the Red and Whites before the big battle with Aston Villa

Olympiacos comfortably passed the obstacle of Lamia, which they won 4-1 for the 8th matchday of the playoffs, a few days before the first semi-final against Aston Villa.

As far as the standings are concerned, Olympiacos with this three points reached 70 points and passed third above PAOK (plays AEK at 19:30). Lamia is in 6th place with 36 points.

The fans of the “red whites” decided not to be in the stands of “Georgios Karaiskakis” in the game with the team of Fthiotida protesting the arrests that have been made after the murder of the policeman, George Lyggeridis.

The game started with a low tempo, although Olympiacos had the initiative of the movements from the first minutes. In the 12th minute, Vezo took a header from inside the area, but Koselev blocked. In the next period, the visitors tried to keep the ball and keep the red and whites away from their area.

However, Olympiacos managed to take the lead with two goals in three minutes, imposing its pace. In the 24th minute, Tsikinho opened the scoring for Piraeus, after a shot in the heart of the area, while three minutes later Navarro doubled his team’s goals with a nice spot from the semi-circle of the area.

Olympiacos started strongly in the second half as well. In the 50th minute he warned with Masoura’s header and a difficult save by Koselev. Two minutes later, Piraeus scored a third goal. Simon turned the ball wrong, Pontense slotted past the visiting goalkeeper who had come out to make it 3-0.

Olympiacos had another good moment in the 55th minute with Masoura unable to “hang” Koselef. At this point, Mendiliber made his first interventions, resting Rezzo and Ciquinho, who are destined to be the main players for England.

Lamia made sure to look threatening and even reduced the lead in the 64th minute. Lake took a quick free-kick, Tosic took the ball and left-footed it past Abby on the edge of the area to score.

The match ended at 90+3′ with Alexandropoulos scoring.

The compositions

Olympiacos (Jose Luis Mendilibar): Paschalakis – Kini, Retsos (59′ Abi), Vezo, Richards – Ese, Tsiquinio (59′ Alexandropoulos), Orta (84′ El Arabi) – Mazouras (73′ Zelson), Pontense, Navarro ( 73 El Kaabi)

Lamia (Leonidas Vokolos): Koselev – Sidkley, Simon (59′ Tosic), Tzanetopoulos, Giannoutsos – Tsiloulis, Tsandaris, Nunies (46′ Tereziou), Martinez (75′ Tsoukalos) – Kontonikos (46′ Vasilantonopoulos), Lake (84′ Tsilianidis)

Referee: Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (Arkadias) Assistants: Andreas Meidanas (Achaia), Vasilios Nikolakakis (Lasithiou) 4th: Alexandros Tsakalides (Chalkidiki) VAR: Evangelos Manouhos (Argolid), AVAR: D.Vergetis (Argolid)