Another bad year for Asteras that we were not used to something like this with the team from Tripoli ignoring the victory in the championship from October 28th. It is the second consecutive bad season for the team of Arcadia, which last year escaped the relegation barrage at the end. The assumption of technical leadership by Rastavac coincided with a bad program and the home draw with Larissa was the only thing that the Arcades got in the three matches with the Serbian coach on their bench. The 0-5 from Olympiakos is as if it did not happen, but on Wednesday in OAKA Asteras clearly improved, although it was back in the score with 2-0, it reduced and almost bit the point from AEK if there was no terrible repulse of Tsintotas at the end.
Shortly before Wednesday afternoon, Xanthi, in one of the worst games we've seen in the league, came to a 0-0 draw with Sky Panatholikon, continuing its downward course against what it had shown at the start of the season. He travels to Tripoli with nine draws in nine games and a 2-1 win over Atromitos where if there was no penalty shoot-out then we would be talking 0-0-2.
Asteras seems to be rising or at least showing a pulse. Xanthi again shows nothing. She has a very good past in the home of her opponent where she has lost only once in 13 matches and has won four but the one she lost was on 21/12/2014!
For Asteras as well as for Rastavats who was the coach of Xanthi until May, the match is a must win, the hosts look more alive and I estimate that they will confirm the ace that if this happens will be done with less than 3,5 goals in the match since Xanthi is the team with the fewest finals in the category and only 12 goals, but Asteras also scores one goal per match on average.