Aris goes against the trend of recent years, according to which only foreign referees are needed in the derby. In connection with Iturbe’s missed goal and the failure of Vrusai by the Portuguese Martins in the cup match against Olympiacos, the Thessaloniki team sent a letter to CUD with a request to appoint a Greek referee for the rematch with Olympiacos. “red and white”, except for the “undesirable” Thassos Papapetrou. Decision – Chief Referee Steve Bennett’s response will now be of particular interest as there is a direct agreement from the Big Five teams that only foreign referees will officiate the derby, with the characterization that when he appointed Tassos Sidiropoulos to Panathinaikos – Round 4 AEK caused a firestorm and was forced to replace Aron Aron with Georgy Kabakov.

The “Yellows” have complaints from the Martins Arbitration in Karaiskakis and have sent a request to the QED.

The 1-0 win gives Olympiacos a clear qualifying lead but leaves Aris hopeful of failing in the second leg, likely set for next Wednesday, as there is a request for a Panathinaikos-PAOK derby on Thursday for televised reasons as long as it is not any of the two groups do not agree. The Greens are primarily interested in winning the championship match against PAOK the day after tomorrow at Leforo, but this does not mean that they will leave the Cup second. They hold the trophy and want to defend it, but at the moment they don’t care about the return game at all, other than Sunday’s derby, the second of three in a row against the North’s doubleheader in less than 10 days.

There are clear favorites in the other two pairs of the quarter-final phase of the Cup. After beating Panserraikos 3-0, AEK is essentially waiting for the winner of the Olympiacos-Aris match in the semi-finals, just like Lamia have a strong lead after a 2-1 win over Apollo Paralimni in Serres and waiting for those passing through the PAOK-Panathinaikos pair.