Very good atmosphere prevails in Kolossi since last Tuesday. The successes “create” the atmosphere inside Apollo, but also in the ranks of the team's fans.
In order to increase the degree of faith that the blue and whites will achieve the big goal of the year, they will… have to achieve a second consecutive victory in a derby on Monday with AEL.
The team of Giannis Petrakis will seek rematch for psychological reasons. Given that they will meet the blue and yellows two more times in the playoffs.
Even if the local derby is held on Monday, if the stands of the stadiums were not closed due to the restrictive measures, the western platform of Tsireio would be full. The thousands of fans of the team will inevitably be limited to watching the match from the Cytavision channel.
As for Petrakis' plan, the Haitian international left back Donald Grier came out of quarantine and will take part in today's training session in Kolossi. The Greek coach may include him in the mission, but we estimate that he will not have him in the starting lineup.
At the left end of the defense we will see one of Petros Psychas and George Vassilios. Whoever plays in the role of “trio” will have to face perhaps the best “smoker” of AEL, the Spanish winger Manuel Torres.
There is also a dilemma for the attack, since Bakali Dabo is very happy in training. If he is included in the starting lineup, the coach will most likely be a fullback. In such a case, it is not a given that Nicolas Dignini will stay on the bench. The Frenchman may play extreme, “displacing” Gianniotas. One of the two “deadly weapons” (the other is Dignini) of the team, the Cypriot international Giannis Pittas, does not come out with anything from the eleven.
In the midfield, Petrakis will probably keep the trio of Markovic, Matei and Biseswar.
The other three of the defense (the other is either Vassiliou or Psychas as mentioned above) will be Joao Pedro on the right and stoppers are Roberts and Juste. Dimitris Dimitriou will be at the end. After a long time, Serbian goalkeeper Aleksandar Jovanovic may be included in the mission.
