AEK – Mars 1-0: Victory with Anthony Marcial in the Greek Cup – Complaints from the Thessalonians

Adni Marcial broke the “rodi”, achieving his first goal with her and the Union defeated him (1-0) at the OPAP Arena, for the “16” of the Greek Cup. “Voices” from the Thessalonians, who requested the expulsion of Brinioli. A small lead in qualifying for the “8” of the Greek Cup was won by AEK, defeating Mars 1-0 in the OPAP Arena, the first match of the two teams. On December 3, the rematch in “Cl. Vikelides”. Mars gave venues to the AEK, at the start of the match and the Union released the ball, to give width to its game and to find spaces in the rival defense. Marcial, Pineda, Ljubicicic and Eliason were the players who tried to quickly release the ball and put Mantzio’s team in a difficult position. The Frenchman also had the first good moment of the game, sending the ball over the horizontal beam, with a header. Mars tried to find good counterattacks, having growth mainly on Pelius’ side, with Zamora. Beyond the 10’ phase, he showed good management of AEK pressure. The second phase he accepted in his frames was even bigger and came in 25’. After Elijahson’s sting, Pierrot took the head, Rota put the projection, Cuesta “put it out”, the ball went to Rota’s head and went out. In 29’ the AEK requested a penalty for hand within the area, the phase was examined by Fire at VAR, without Sidiropoulos being notified and the game continued. Three minutes later, we had a phase that… raised a big conversation. Brinoli exited, found the ball little and hit Suleimanov in the head with his shoe racks. Sidiropoulos gave a yellow card, the VAR invited him to consider the phase, but the Greek referee did not change the color of the card he showed, keeping the Union’s Italian portrait in a match. The first part, however, was completed with Anthony Marcial putting his name for the first time on the scorers’ board in the Super League. From Pineda’s sting he was fighting, the French striker – in the crowd – put his foot right and sells for 1-0. French’s first goal with AEK. AEK came in with… wear it in the second half. Apart from a good shot by Sisto—who found on Pelion—he was not threatened for several minutes and saw Pineda, Rota and Ljubicic lose opportunities, with the Croatian means sending the ball barely out with a close header (47’). The two coaches went on to change, with Manzio intensifying his offensive line (Diadi, Quaison and Fetfatzidis passed to the match instead of Sisto, Zamora and Manou Garthia) and Almeida the center area (Galanopoulos instead of Pineda). Three others followed from the AEK side (Lamela, Chuber and Fernandes went to the game instead of Ljubicic, Marcial and Eliason). Akesh Mantzios pitched for his last quarter match and Lauren Moron! But in 77’ Mars saw the terrible pattern of Paulo Fernandes sending the ball to the right vertical beam of Cuesta. The AEK managed well the remaining time, even showed playing with good psychology – mainly with the efforts of Paulo Fernandes – Mars did not find the phase he was looking for and the victory went to the “yellow blacks”. The compositions of the two groups: AEK (Almeida): Brinioli- Rota, Mitoglou, Callens, Pelion- Jonson, Pineda (65′ Galanopoulos)- Eliason (71′ Fernandes), Ljubisic (71′ Lamela), Marsial (71′ Tsuber)- Pierrot (65′ Gacinovic). On the counter: Strakosha, Tsioulis, Kosidis and Giannoulis. Mars (Mangios): Cuesta-Montoya (75′ Mayo), Fabiano, Brabbets, Friedek- Monchu, Manu Garthia (62′ Fetfatzidis), Darida-Suleimanov (75′ Moron), Sisto (62′ Diadi), Samora (62′ Quaison). On the counter: Sidkley, Pardo, Juankar, Rose.