PAOK – AEK 3-2: Upheaval in the last minutes and… fire in the championship!

What a mess and what a twist! In the 75th minute, AEK, with a goal by Vida, turned the match against PAOK upside down, who once again reacted against Union in the final, and with goals from Constantelia and Sastre, won 3-2 for the eighth matchday of the playoffs. setting the league on fire.

How did they start?

Kotarski was under the posts for PAOK who lined up with all their weapons and Otto, Koulierakis, Kenziora and Baba to be four in defense. Schwab and Meite started on the axis, with Zivkovic on the right of the attack, Tyson on the left and Constantelia behind Thomas.

On the other hand, AEK lined up with exactly the same faces of the derby as Panathinaikos. At the goal was Athanasiadis, four in defense: Rota, Vida, Callens and Hadjisafi, while Simanski and Jonsson started in the center. Eliasson was on the right in attack, Pineda on the left and Araujo behind Ponce.

PAOK is fuzioros

The match started with a goal from the locker room as PAOK opened the scoring in just the 3rd minute when Baba made a nice effort and turned from the left, with Constantelia unmarked with a projection to make it 1-0. However, instead of getting morale from the goal, Lucescu’s team, AEK was the one that dominated afterwards.

Immediate response and dominance of AEK

Just two minutes later Araujo entered the area and turned for Eliasson who was probably taken by surprise and could not score from close range. At 9′ came the equalizer for AEK when Pineda took the ball almost from the corner, passed whoever he found in front of him and made it 1-1 with a strong shot.

Ten minutes later, the Mexican even came within a breath of his second personal goal and the upset, but Kotarski, with an improbable intervention, took out his near post after Eliasson’s accurate cross. In the 32nd minute, Kotarski also defeated Araujos on a free kick and then PAOK picked up the pace and had their own moments.

PAOK is close to the second goal

From a corner kick in the 37th minute, Athanasiadis, with the help of the crossbar, cleared the header of Koulierakis and two minutes later, the AEK goalkeeper stopped Schwab with an improbable intervention in a nailed header from close range.

PAOK’s chance, AEK’s title goal

The second half started with PAOK in control, but not threatening. Until 67′ when Athanasiadis, with a major intervention, said no to Constantelias. In 75′, AEK turned the game around when Hadjisafi committed a foul, Schwab in his attempt to clear went for an own goal, but Kotarski cleared and Vida made it 1-2 with a header from close range.

It’s all bullshit

The home team did not give up despite this and due to the incredible inertia of Callens in the 81st minute, they made it 2-2 with Constantelia from close range after Samata’s header-pass. And with the completion of 90 minutes, Sastre, with a strong shot that he countered, made it 3-2 amidst furious celebrations. As the final whistle blew there was a lot of tension, with Almeida on edge and not even Roa being able to contain him.

The compositions:

PAOK (Rasvan Lucescu): Kotarski, Otto (46′ Sastre), Keziora, Koulierakis, Baba, Schwab (78′ Ozdoev), Meite – A. Zivkovic (77′ Despodov), Constantelias, Tyson, Thomas (70′ Samata).

AEK (Matias Almeida): Athanasiadis, Rota (78′ Garcia), Vida, Callens, Hadjisafi, Eliasson (65′ Amrbat), Simanski, Jonsson, Pineda, Ponce (78′ Zuber), Araujo (66′ Gacinovic).