Can one game in early August largely determine a team’s season? Usually not, but for him Olympic and his meetings with Slovan Bratislava exactly the opposite is true. In addition, about Carlos Corberan both in a conversation with Vangelis Marinakis and in his first speech to the players, he was clear. For him, as well as for the entire organization of the “red-whites”, only matches with the Slovaks are on the horizon. Reaching the Europa League playoffs is for Olympiacos something like a cure for the wounds opened by the elimination from the Champions League, which even entailed a change of coach. On the one hand, this will alleviate the bitterness that followed the matches with Maccabi, and on the other hand, it will provide some kind of European presence, because if he passes Slovan, he will automatically secure a place in the Conference League groups.

Corberán, who coached the Red-Whites yesterday for the second time, cannot exclude that today he will use the right to replace two players from the list announced by his predecessor, Pedro Martins.

• The UEFA draw played a strange game at Olympiacos, because if the Red-Whites miss out on Slovan, they will face the losing Maccabi Haifa vs Apollon Limassol in the European Playoffs! In case of relegation to the playoffs of the Conference, they will have to meet the winner of the pair Zrinski (Bosnia) – Tobol (Kazakhstan).

• In a social media post, Pedro Martins gave a brief overview of all the important events he experienced at Olympiacos and also thanked the players, team staff and Vangelis Marinakis.

• Olympiacos are looking into the case of 25-year-old Spartak Moscow forward Jordan Larson, according to reports in Sweden.