HERAKLION. Olympiakos Piraeus tops OFI 2-0 after D. Podence scores a double.

The match was played at the Stadio Thódoros Vardinoyánnis stadium in Heraklion on Monday and it started at 9:30 pm local time. The referee was Aristotelis Diamantopoulos with the collaboration of Konstantinos Psarris and Andreas Meintanas. The 4th official was . The weather was light rain. The temperature was pleasant at 24.04 degrees Celsius or 75.27 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 67%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

No teams had a vastly superior advantage in terms of ball possession. OFI was in possession of the ball for 52% of the time vs. Olympiakos Piraeus that controlled the ball for 48% of the time.

Attitude and shots

Olympiakos Piraeus had a more offensive attitude with 46 dangerous attacks and 15 shots of which 4 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Olympiakos Piraeus won the match.​

OFI shot 4 times, 0 on target, 3 off target. Talking about the opposition, Olympiakos Piraeus shot 15 times, 4 on target, 7 off target.

Cards

OFI received 1 yellow card (Dan Glazer). On the opposite side, Olympiakos Piraeus received 3 yellow cards (Mady Camara, Jackson Porozo and Panagiotis Retsos).

Standings

After this match, OFI will stay with 13 points to hold in the 7th place. Talking about the opposition, Olympiakos Piraeus will have 21 points to sit in the 2nd place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Super League, OFI will play away against Olympiakos Piraeus on the 3rd of February with a 25-2 head to head stats in favor of Olympiakos Piraeus (2 draws).

Olympiakos Piraeus will host Volos NFC on the 3rd of March with a 8-0 head to head stats in favor of Olympiakos Piraeus (2 draws).

OFI – Formation

OFI started with a 3-4-1-2 line-up (3-4-1-2).

The manager Valdas Dambrauskas decided to play with the following team: Noam Baumann (6.7), Praxitelis Vouros (6.3), Triantafyllos Pasalidis (7.3), Andreas Karo (6.8), Eric Larsson (6.3), Dan Glazer (7.1), Miguel Mellado (6.4), Gudmundur Thórarinsson (7.1), Luis Felipe Gallegos (6.8), Marko Bakic (7.0) and Nouha Dicko (6.6).

The home team had on the bench: Nikolaos Marinakis (6.6), Juan Neira, Konstantinos Giannoulis, Jon Toral (7.0), Adrián Riera (7.0), Vasilios Lampropoulos, Luiz Phellype (6.8), Dimitrios Sotiriou and Leroy Abanda (6.4).

OFI could not rely on the presence of Luiz Phellype (injured) and Adrián Riera (injured).

Substitutions

OFI made 5 changes: Marko Bakic for Luiz Phellype (26′), Andreas Karo for Leroy Abanda (46′), Nouha Dicko for Adrián Riera (67′), Luis Felipe Gallegos for Jon Toral (68′) and Eric Larsson for Nikolaos Marinakis (79′).

Best player: Triantafyllos Pasalidis​

The most impressive player for OFI was Triantafyllos Pasalidis.

His rating is (7.3) with 52 passes (83% accurate) and 0 key passes. He was won 7 duels out of 11.

Olympiakos Piraeus – Formation

Olympiakos Piraeus started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

Diego Martínez Penas played with: Alexandros Paschalakis (6.4), Quini (7.1), Jackson Porozo (7.3), Panagiotis Retsos (7.1), Francisco Ortega (7.1), Mady Camara (7.0), Santiago Hezze (7.5), Daniel Podence (8.7), Georgios Masouras (7.3), Ola Solbakken (7.0) and Stevan Jovetic (7.8).

These were the players on the bench: Ayoub El Kaabi (6.6), Gustavo Scarpa (6.8), Youssef El Arabi, Sotiris Alexandropoulos (6.1), Marios Vrousai, João Carvalho (6.8), Pep Biel (7.1), Andreas Ndoj and Konstantinos Tzolakis.

Substitutions

Olympiakos Piraeus made 5 changes: Mady Camara for João Carvalho (83′), Georgios Masouras for Sotiris Alexandropoulos (76′), Ola Solbakken for Pep Biel (65′), Stevan Jovetic for Ayoub El Kaabi (65′) and Daniel Podence for Gustavo Scarpa (83′).

Best player: Daniel Podence​

The player that probably impressed the most for Olympiakos Piraeus was Daniel Podence.

His rating is (8.7) with 2 goals, 30 passes (80% accurate) and 1 key pass. He performed 1 cross.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Super League.​

• OFI – Olympiakos Piraeus – 0-2
• AEK Athens – PAOK – 2-0