Football Hellas

As AEK join PAOK in looking towards the Europa League group stage, #Olympiacos’ path in the #ChampionsLeague also became a lot clearer last night after the Piraeus giants were placed in a group with Manchester City, Porto, and Marseille. #UCL

Incredible night last night for #AEK and Greek football after a 2-1 win over Wolfsburg in the most thrilling of circumstances. After Andre Simoes’ 🚀 tied it, a 94’(!) winner from Ansarifard assured AEK of a berth in the Europa League group stage!

After last night, it’s hard not to circle back to this moment and how much belief this might have given #Krasnodar last week. A 2-2 scoreline heading into last night could have changed things drastically. In the end #PAOK needed more than just one, but this is a bigger miss now.

A really disappointing night for #PAOK and Greek football last night as the Thessaloniki club crashed out of the Champions League after another 2-1 defeat to #Krasnodar (to lose 4-2 on agg.). PAOK parachute into the Europa League group stage, but the loss leaves a bitter taste.

@JKoutsogiannis They played Boro close and had a big win over Lazio (we might have to feature that soon) but those blowout losses away from home were tough. Sad fate followed for Egaleo domestically a couple seasons later.

@FootballHellas Yes, brutal Group they were in if I recall. Lazio, Middlesbrough, Villarreal and Partizan. Panionios and AEK also in those group stages as well.

#OTD in 2004, Egaleo reached a new height in European football. In their first appearance in qualifying for the UEFA Cup, a Georgios Barkoglou tally secured a draw on the night and a 2-1 aggregate win over Turkey’s Genclerbirligi to clinch a first-ever group stage berth.

Today (9/30), CAS will hear the appeal from #Panathinaikos in relation to the money they’re still owed for the sale of Sotiris Ninis to #Parma in 2012. FIFA determined Parma’s new owners don’t need to pay the outstanding €472K, but #PAO are hoping CAS will overturn this. #SLGR

@G_Pmang Can you imagine the agony if those chances weren’t taken in a closer tie? Olympiacos’ front line still looks quite rusty. Martins and co. will need to address that before the group stage.

#Omonoia 0-0 #Olympiacos They let many chances go amiss but Olympiacos ultimately strolled into the Champions League group stage after a stalemate in Cyprus on Tuesday night (2-0 on aggregate). #OMOOLY #OlympiacosFC #Ολυμπιακός #UCL

It’s the 20th time since the start of the UEFA Champions League that #Olympiacos have qualified for the group stage. The Erythrolefki rank only behind Barcelona, Real Madrid, Porto, Juventus, Manchester United, and Bayern Munich for most appearances in the group stage. #UCL

It’s the first of three MASSIVE nights for Greek football as we look towards not just this season but years to come in European competition 🇬🇷 The best of luck to #Olympiacos this evening, #PAOK tomorrow night, and #AEK on Thursday! #Greece #OMOOLY #PAOKKRA #AEKWOB #UCL #UEL

#OTD in 2015, #Olympiacos stunned #Arsenal in the Champions League! Goals from Felipe Pardo, Alfred Finnbogason, as well as a David Ospina own goal helped Olympiacos secure a 3-2 win for the club’s first-ever triumph on English soil! #OlympiacosFC #UCL ow.ly/5A3t30rchif

Giorgos Petrakis is feeling the heat after #Lamia were handed yet another defeat to start the new season. Petrakis took over as manager back in June and oversaw the end of Lamia’s 2019/2020 campaign; however, since then he remains winless in 7 games in charge (0-4-3) 😬 #SLGR

After becoming the first player to play for each of Greek football’s traditional Big-4 clubs, Lazaros #Christodoulopoulos has signed with the fifth Greek club of his career after agreeing to terms on a one-year deal with #Atromitos. #AtromitosFC #SLGR #Transfers

So with Matchday 3 in the books, it’s still #Aris who sit at the Super League summit; though their lead is now just 1 point on the likes of #AEK and #Olympiacos. #PASGiannina picked up their first point of the season, while Lamia have yet to find theirs through three games #SLGR

A final look at the results from Matchday 3 in the Super League: A distracted #PAOK stumbled once again, while #Olympiacos and #AEK made it 2/2. #Aris fought back to claim a point while late equalizers denied wins for #OFI and #Panathinaikos. #SLGR

FT #Larissa 1-1 #Panathinaikos A late equalizer from Dimitris Pinakas denied Panathinaikos the win in Larissa on Monday night. Federico Macheda put the #Trifylli in front only to be pegged back on 87’. #AELPAO #SLGR

Matchday 3 in the Super League wraps up tonight with an interesting clash between #Larissa and #Panathinaikos. After identical 1-0 defeats on Matchday 1, both sides had last week off to recuperate due to scheduling reasons. Who will bounce back tonight? #AELPAO #SLGR

@JKoutsogiannis @footgrec Oh my word, yes! That’s perhaps the worst miss I’ve seen involving a Greek club. It would take a lot to top that. Very costly!

@FootballHellas @footgrec Ugh, this reminds me of the biggest miss by an AEK Iranian player. Masoud’s miss vs Dynamo Kyev in the round of 32 still stings!

Karim #Ansarifard with an early contender for miss of the season during #AEK’s 3-0 win over #Lamia last night. The Iranian striker was very candid, and pretty funny in an interview with Novasports following the game. 🎥 @footgrec #AEKLAM #SLGR #AEKFC