I will take it a step further and make it more intriguing, I imagine more interesting: AVAR in that AEK-Olympiakos in May was the same AVAR of AEK-Atromitos on Thursday! Theofilos Moysiadis from the Epirus link. The assistant supervisor, who last season had the most AVAR designations and who has now been implicitly punished (along with Papapetrou’s VAR) by the KED for the terrifying incident that happened last night in the game in Philadelphia, as there has never been such a decision before lines have been entered for another player and not for the one who scored, in a disallowed goal.
Here, specifically at 1.58, anyone who wants to see Bakabou’s goal that was canceled as offside in Olympiakos’ game with AEK in the playoffs of last year’s Greek championship, in a phase that, like on Thursday, was controlled by Mousiadis. With the footnote that in offsides, the opinion of AVAR, who is after all a supervisor, and not of VAR, who is a referee, primarily counts.
And, look, I won’t say if it was a goal, not Bakambo’s. You will see, however, that the stop-frame taken by the subscription channel at the moment of Huang’s header pass to Bakambu is different from the stop-frame they did in VAR…
Above all, however, what happened in AEK-Atromitos vindicates all of us who, from the first moment when, well, VAR came to the Greek league, we argued that it is also important how VAR is used, who draws the lines and who therefore make the relevant decisions on goals that go into the limit. With Olympiakos, in fact, being artificially accused of “now questioning the technology”!…To be accused of course by those who systematically favor the marginal phases.
Otherwise, it is beyond me that the international referee I. Papadopoulos remains a VAR in tomorrow’s game PAS-Iannina-Olympiakos after the let’s say “scared” (not to use the description given to him by the technical director of Atromitos Angelopoulos and he was dismissed in protest …) his arbitration at AEK-Atromitos.
In my opinion, he overstepped the mark above all with his decision to end the match 12.5 minutes late, when he had originally indicated 10, but within those 10 minutes, another six (!) minutes of delay appeared: 3.5 for waiting for the VAR decision on AEK’s penalty for 2-1, another 1.5 minutes for the celebrations of the AEK players after the goal and one minute for the punishments with cards on the bench of Atromitos.
The goals are scored by the front players, of course, they are already deified, but that does not mean that we should not see the very good work that the back players of Olympiakos do in order for these goals to come from El Kaabi and the other “red and whites” » hunters.
So in the Olympiakos game with Aris…
The 1-0 started with Darinda’s shot being blocked by Freire, with Solbakken making a brilliant one-on-one pass to Fortuni and making a nice counter-attack and pass to Masoura, who in turn didn’t make a good turn and he just got lucky with Brumbetz’s own goal. By the way, the absence of the Czech stopper was noticeable from the 37th minute, when a forced change was made, since Veleth, who took his place, was inevitably not 100% ready after a long absence.
2-1 from Fortouni’s corner and the header of (screwed to the ground!) El Kaabi started with a very good pass by Esse to Fortouni, who won the corner, which he took himself, to take the Olympic goal from a corner header in the second successive game after Ibora’s from Biel’s 4-0 win over Kifissia last Sunday.
El Kaabi’s 3-1 was started by Retso, who took a ball from an Aris player and then the Olympiakos players released it within 17 seconds at the feet of Podense, Mandi, Biel, Mandi, Rodiney, Podense, with Rodiney to receive the pass again and cross for the goal.
And the 4-1 started with Freire’s nice pass to Jovetic, who controlled the ball brilliantly and took it out to Biel, to take it back to his feet and score.
So, in all four Olympiakos goals, there was an active involvement of a defensive player. Either more direct (see Rodney) or less direct (see Freire, Esse).
