Olympiacos Piraeus

[Faliro]

Very near to Juan Carlos Paredes.

Luca Milojevic to Crystal Palace for €15 million.

Karamanos from Feirense to Fulham - Oly stands to make around €1 million.

[Faliro]

Its final.

Signed Paredes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct1aBJt6S3A

Lost Luka for €15 million:

[the boneless]

How's Tacuara doin'?

[Faliro]

How's Tacuara doin'?

Not so good. Combination of bad luck, slowness and poor form I think.

[Covenant]

Cissocko best in the world.

[Faliro]

Cissocko best in the world.

Two new full backs.. 1 for each side. Bento was shocked Luka was sold. He only found out on the day of sale. Says the team will work hard to replace him but it wont be easy. The Iranian forward Ansarifard from Panionios looks good. Seems to have goals in him. Bento says he has one eye on Osmanlispor (watching their games) but the main focus is always on the next game.

His development of youth this year has been spectacular.

Maniatis has dissolved his contract with Olympiacos. Glad to see him go.

[Faliro]

Marco Silva:

"Tenho orgulho por aquilo que conquistámos na Grécia. Adorei a passagem pelo Olympiacos, um grandíssimo clube, onde mantenho muitas amizades. Uma cidade onde fui muito bem recebido. Depois, há o ganhar e o ganhar. Aquilo que fizemos nunca tinha sido feito, foi um feito grande e ficou marcado. Batemos muitos recordes, conseguimos uma Liga dos Campeões excelente, com uma vitória em que o presidente chegou ao pé de mim e disse que nunca tinha tido uma vitória daquelas fora de casa, que nunca se tinha sentido assim enquanto presidente do Olympiacos, es estamos a falar de um clube enorme [Arsenal 3-2]", disse antes de rematar.

"Se depender de mim, irei voltar a representar o Olympiacos", finalizou.

https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/desporto/735603/comentadores-aqui-nao-vejo-muitos-medicos-muitos-advogados

[Covenant]

Another Easy win.

[Faliro]

So easy.. could have easily been 6. Iraklis will probably go down.

[Faliro]

News from Benfica's best feeder club Olympiacos!

We play Osmanlispor tomorrow and we hope for a victory.

Here was one of the final training sessions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9NwPDiZBkQ

Bento left out Marin, Cambiasso and De La Bella. Ellinoussi, Ideye and Kapino injured. Here is the squad:


Bento is really hard to predict, but I would say this has a chance:

.........................,,,...Leali............................

Figueras...........Botia...........Viana...........Cissoko

...Romao(?)/Retsos(?).........Martins........

Androutos/Manthatis....Fortounis.....Seba.....

...........Cardoso/Anisfard...................

Androutsos should play as he has been MVP the last two games.

Now this club, Osmanlispor - is named after the founder of the Ottoman Empire - Osman I! They play the Ottoman anthem before each game.  Their chief said that this game is a national issue:

«Ως ομάδα, δεν έχουμε ξεκινήσει καλά το 2017. Το κίνητρό μας είναι ιδιαίτερα υψηλό. Βλέπουμε αυτό το παιχνίδι σαν Εθνική υπόθεση."

http://www.pronews.gr/portal/20170214/sports/diethnes-podosfairo/90837/fanatizoyn-klima-oi-toyrkoi-ethniki-ypothesi-gia-emas-mats

I like this guy's outlook. Let's make it a national issue!!

[VivaoBenfica]

Good luck.

[VivaoBenfica]

You're being victim of your own success.

Greek league is so weak nowadays that you aren't prepared to international games against sides from better leagues.

[Faliro]

You're being victim of your own success.

Greek league is so weak nowadays that you aren't prepared to international games against sides from better leagues.

Perhaps the truest words possible? 

As for the game, finished 0-0. Cardoso in particular was poor imo. Bento hinted so too at the end saying we lacked good finishing. Karim should have started.

The two youth starters - Androutsos (19 years old) and Retsos (18 years old) were excellent as usual. Attack attack attack.. Cissoko was also very good. Seba was Seba..Martins was OK. Manthatis (19 years old) was also excellent when he came on. To give bento credit, the youth he uses outshine the senior players every time..

Still all to play for.

[Faliro]

1-0 down in the OAKA at HT.



1-0 FT.

Manolo Jimenez out-coaches Bento a little tonight..

[Bryan.]

Mitroglou just wrote another huge page of his history here.