Live in the playoff battle Europa League stayed about Olympicwhich was played 1-1 with Slovan Bratislava in Karaiskakis, in the first game between them for the 3rd qualifying round of the competition. El Arabi and Valbuena, who came off the bench, were two players who took their team out of … an intense game, as after a corner from the Frenchman, the Moroccan striker made it 1-1 with a header three minutes before the final. Of course, up to this point, despite the change of coach and the presence of Carlos Corberan on the bench, the Red-Whites had the same problems as in previous games, both in the creative and in the blocking part.

Although Olympiacos had two good chances at the start of yesterday’s match, the Slovaks then managed to bring the pace up to their pace with a strike against Bargesian in the 16th minute. In fact, Slovan froze Karaiskaki in the 63rd minute when Green took advantage of Papastathopoulos’s mistake and made it 1-0 from a good spot. Olympiacos came to their senses in the last quarter and finally managed to level the score in the 87th minute with El Arabi’s header.

Now the Red-Whites have at least another 90 minutes to qualify for the European playoffs.

OLYMPIC: Vatslik, Avila, Papastathopoulos, Siz, Reabchuk, Embila, Mandi (Valbuena 68), Conte, Masouras (Rodriguez 79), Zinkernagel (Rangelovic 55), Ticinho (El Arabi 68).

SLOVAK: Khovan, Pushek, Kasha, Abena, De Marco, Kuchka, Kankava, Bargesyan (Ramirez, 83), Kakhvetatze, Zmryal (Medvedev, 85), Green.