PIRAEUS. Olympiakos Piraeus snatched a late win Fenerbahçe 1-0 after T. Soares scored just 1 goal (90′).
The match was played at the Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki stadium in Piraeus on Thursday and it started at 10:00 pm local time. The referee was Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz with the collaboration of Pau Cebrián Devis and Roberto Díaz Pérez Del Palomar. The 4th official was Santiago Jaime Latre. The weather was cloudy. The temperature was cold at 10.7 degrees Celsius or 51.33 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 71%.
Match Statistics
- 54 Ball Possession 46
Shots
- 18 Total 6
- 4 On Target 0
- 14 Off Target 6
- 6 Shots blocked 0
- 112 Attack 78
- 49 Dangerous attack 27
- 111 Ball safe 122
- 0 Penalties 0
- 5 Corners 3
- 2 Off Sides 3
Fouls
- 11 Total 12
- 2 Yellow Cards 1
- 0 Double Yellow 0
- 0 Red Card 0
Other
- 5 Substitutions 5
Ball possession
No teams had a vastly superior advantage in terms of ball possession. Olympiakos Piraeus was in possession of the ball for 54% of the time vs. Fenerbahçe that controlled the ball for 46% of the time.
Attitude and shots
Olympiakos Piraeus was has a more offensive attitude with 49 dangerous attacks and 18 shots of which 4 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Olympiakos Piraeus won the match.
Olympiakos Piraeus shot 18 times, 4 on target, 14 off target. Talking about the opposition, Fenerbahçe shot 6 times, 0 on target, 6 off target.
Cards
Olympiakos Piraeus received 2 yellow cards (O. Ba and T. Soares). Regarding the opposition, Fenerbahçe received 1 yellow card ().
Match Timeline
Standings
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
After playing this match, Olympiakos Piraeus will have 9 points to hold in the 2nd place. Regarding the opposition, Fenerbahçe will stay with 5 points to sit in the 3rd place.
Next matches
In the next match in the Europa League, Olympiakos Piraeus will play away against Antwerp on the 9th of December with a 1-0 head to head stats in favor of Olympiakos Piraeus (0 draws).
Fenerbahçe will host Eintracht Frankfurt on the 9th of December with a 0-0 head to head record.
Olympiakos Piraeus – Formation
Olympiakos Piraeus
25'
39'
90'Olympiakos Piraeus started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).
The manager Pedro Rui da Mota Vieira Martins decided to play with the following team: Tomáš Vaclík , Kenny Lala , Sokratis , Pape Abou Cissé , Oleg Reabciuk , Mady Camara , Yann M’Vila , Giorgos Masouras , Aguibou Camara , Henry Onyekuru and Youssef El Arabi .
The home team had on the bench: Marios Vrousai, Svetozar Marković, Rony Lopes , Ilias Karargyris, Vasilios Sourlis, Andreas Bouchalakis , Tiquinho Soares , Ousseynou Ba , Athanasios Androutsos, Konstantinos Tzolakis and Mathieu Valbuena .
Olympiakos Piraeus could not rely on the presence of O. Ba (injured).
Substitutions
Olympiakos Piraeus made 5 changes: Sokratis for O. Ba (25′), A. Camara for A. Bouchalakis (46′), H. Onyekuru for Rony Lopes (46′), G. Masouras for M. Valbuena (68′) and Y. El Arabi for T. Soares (81′).
Best player: Kenny Lala
The player that probably impressed the most for Olympiakos Piraeus was Kenny Lala even if he didn’t score the decisive goal.
His rating is with 41 passes (75% accurate) and 0 key passes. He was won 8 duels out of 8. He performed 7 crosses.
Fenerbahçe – Formation
Fenerbahçe
Fenerbahçe started with a aggressive line-up (4-3-3).
Vítor Manuel de Oliveira Lopes Pereira played with: Berke Özer , Bright Osayi-Samuel , Marcel Tisserand , Min-jae Kim , Filip Novák , Mert Hakan Yandaş , José Sosa , Miha Zajc , İrfan Can Kahveci , Mergim Berisha and Diego Rossi .
These were the players on the bench: Osman Ertuğrul Çetin, Bartu Kulbílge, Nazım Sangaré, Fatih Yiğit Şanlitürk, Attila Szalai , Muhammed Gümüşkaya, Arda Güler, Dimitrios Pelkas , Serdar Aziz, Max Meyer , Ferdi Kadıoğlu and Arda Kurtulan.
Substitutions
Fenerbahçe made 5 changes: I. Kahveci for D. Pelkas (65′), M. Zajc for M. Meyer (65′), D. Rossi for F. Kadioglu (78′), F. Novak for A. Szalai (78′) and M. Yandas for M. Gumuskaya (90′).
Best player: İrfan Can Kahveci
Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Fenerbahçe was İrfan Can Kahveci.
His rating is with 21 passes (80% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 6 duels out of 11. He performed 3 crosses. He hit the woodwork once times.
Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the Europa League.
- Eintracht Frankfurt – Antwerp – 2-2
- Olympiakos Piraeus – Fenerbahçe – 1-0
- Leicester City – Legia Warszawa – 3-1
- Monaco – Real Sociedad – 2-1
- PSV – Sturm Graz – 2-0
- Brøndby – Olympique Lyonnais – 1-3
- Rangers – Sparta Praha – 2-0
- Rapid Vienna – West Ham United – 0-2
- Dinamo Zagreb – Genk – 1-1
- Real Betis – Ferencváros – 2-0
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen – Celtic – 3-2
- Lokomotiv Moskva – Lazio – 0-3
- Galatasaray – Olympique Marseille – 4-2
- Crvena Zvezda – Ludogorets – 1-0
- Midtjylland – Sporting Braga – 3-2
