Lidia Stoupel

Intern Reporter

This Panathinaikos, which hopes to get to the eighth finals of the Champions League as one of the best European teams. This Panathinaikos, with all those players, who few days ago were fighting like lions against Olympiakos and were even better than the latter host. This Panathinaikos had to suffer through one more disgrace and on top of everything disappointed its fans, who had gathered on the stadium so they can support and celebrate the victory, which never came.

The Panseraykos teams, which could very soon fall into the second division, managed to win over Panathinaikos for the cup of Greece with a result of 3-2 at the Olympic stadium in Athens. This result gave them the opportunity to go to the semifinals and play against AEK. Panseraykos was not scared of the host. They managed to build their game and to hamper all green players. Panseraykos included many young soccer players in its team and mostly of the time, they all played very well.

On the other hand, Panathinaikos, with the exception of Hristodoulopoulos who was playing alone, played one of its worst games during this season. Panathinaikos players underestimated their opponent and made a foul at the 21^st minute. After the first goal they started slowly, slowly waking up but ended up reacting in the last eight minutes. And even then they did not have a chance after two hit posts and one lost chance for a goal by Roukavina.

Goals

-      23’ – goal for Panseraykos by Baykara

-      56’ - goal for Panseraykos by Tzeh from a penalty shot

-      71’ - goal for Panseraykos by Tzeh

-      75’ – goal for Panathinaikos by Hristodoulopoulos after a foul

-      92’ – goal for Panathinaikos by Hristodoulopoulos, who found Papazoglou’s feet

Panathinaikos:

Galinovich, Vidra (59’ Mun), Goumas, Vavziniak, Zilberto, Simao (40’ Roukavina), Spiropoulos, Gabriel, Petropoulos (65’ Salpigidis), Clayton, Hristodoulopoulos

Coach: Henk ten Cate

Panseraykos:

Ilich, Kalimanis, Voskopoulos, Papadjoglou, Pipinis, Zoudi (67’ Georgiadis), Digozis, Moutavdjiz, Baykara (86’ Syakas), Tzeh (74’ Bright), Konstadinidis

Coach: Hugo Bros

Referee: G. Yanopoulos