After a very bad first period, during which the “Greens” were losing 1-0, Panathinaikos started pressing the home team, Lamia, in the second half and equalized the score thanks to a goal scored by Molins. The latter shot a ball to the post, during the extra time, in a game held at the Municipal Stadium of Lamia, for the 8th match day of Super League Greece championship.
The “Greens” entered the game rather sluggish and nervous, committing many errors in their passing game. Their development was slow and inefficient and affected their passing game. The team was unable to threat the rival goalposts. The opponents were playing rather defensively and kept easily the ball away from their box. Only from the 20th till the 35th minute, the players of Marinos Ouzounidis were able to deploy their game in a much rational way achieving three final initiatives towards the opponent goalposts, giving the impression of improvement. In the 37th minute, though, Lamia scored after a corner and an unbelievable “rebound” as Hult saved the ball sending it to Coulibaly’s body and back again to the Swede’s foot, before it entered Vlachodimo’s nets! This goal (1-0) “annihilated” the “Greens” till the end of the first period; they were unable to react and went to the pause having realized a deplorable appearance.
The entrance of Mounier, who replaced Reis, in the beginning of the second half made Panathinaikos more aggressive. The “Shamrock” started gaining spaces in the pitch and brought the game close and around Papadopoulos’ box. The headers by Kolovetsios and Molins couldn’t find their target and as Lamia seemed to react defensively, Ouzounidis sent Pispas into the pitch, to replace Kolovetsios, in order to threat the opponent’s box. The “Green” pressure increased as they started to attack the rival posts constantly and in the 85th minute, Villafañez crossed perfectly the ball for Molins, who stood in front of Papadopoulos and scored the equalizer by a cross-cut shoot (1-1). The Swede striker was very close to realize a total win in the 92nd minute, as he shot the ball to the crossbar!
Finally the score remained unchanged and Panathinaikos, once more, couldn’t achieve a victory in an away match. At least the “Shamrock” obtained a draw and collected one point more.
Lineups:
Lamia:Papadopoulos, Panteliadis, Anastasiadis, Koukolis, Asigba (60’ Koutroumanos), Blazic, Omo, Piti (65’ Karayiannis), Vassilantonopoulos, Acosta, Wanderson (85’ Dacol).
Panathinaikos:Vlachodimos, Coulibaly, Kolovetsios (71′ Pispas), Koutroumbis, Hult, Reis (46′ Mounier) Kourbelis, Lod (63′ Cabezas), Villafañez, Hiljemark, Molins.
