Today at 23:00 Baku time in Piraeus at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium, the match of the 3rd round of the group stage of the Europa League between the Greek Olympiacos and the Azerbaijani Karabakh will begin.
The meeting will be judged by a team of referees from Bosnia and Herzegovina, led by Irfan Pelito. Representatives of the Netherlands Yero Mansh and Erwin Blank were scheduled for video assistants.
“Karabakh” after 2 rounds has 3 points and takes 2nd place in the group. The Gurban Gurbanova team lost to the German “Freiburg” (1: 2) and defeated the French “Nant” (3: 0).
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Olympiacos has no points. In the 1st round, the Greeks lost on the exit “NANTA” – 1: 2, and in the 2nd – were defeated by the Germans with a score of 0: 3. After these failures, as well as a bad start in the Greece Championship, the head coach changed in the team. The place of the Spaniard Carlos Karbran was taken by his compatriot, known in the past, the football player of the Madrid Real Madrid and the Spanish national team of Michelle.
The tournament position in the group “G”:
1. “Freiburg” – 6 points (2 matches)
2. “Karabakh” – 3 (2)
3. “Nant” – 3 (2)
4. “Olympiacos” – 0 (2).
In a parallel match in our group “Freiburg” will accept “Nant.”
Before that, the European Cup lot only once brought the Karabakh with a club from Greece. At the group stage of the Europa League of the season 2016/17, Agdams twice beat PAOK – 2: 0 in Baku, 1: 0 in Thessaloniki.
Olympiacos last summer in the qualification of the Champions League played with Neftechi and won twice with a score of 1: 0.
In total, Azerbaijani and Greek clubs held 12 matches. Our teams won twice (we are talking about those two victories of Karabakh over PAC), 6 times the rivals tied and the Greeks won 4 times.