Super League - Iraklis Thessaloniki v Crete OFI
Iraklis slowly getting better after the radical changes to their board during the last years. They are still based on young and ambitius players, but this season i don't think that they are going to have problems with relegation as some experienced players came to their squad and generally they are more strong than previous seasons. Their most important moves during the summer transfers period were keeper Kowalewski (Korona Kielce), Kone (AEK Athens), Konstantinou (Olympiakos), Serge Die (Ajaccio), Bourbos (AEK) and Martos from Malaga B.
Till now to their friendly games and the 1st game in Super League they didn't showed something special, the defeat against Panseraikos was some kind of shock for them, but Panseraikos fully deserved the three points as they were better at all 90 minutes. Against OFI they do not have any missings yet, and they have a good chance to get their first win as OFI has some problems as you will read below.
OFI is in a very strange crisis period, inside and outside of the field and the season started very bad for them. Their fans are away from the team and do not support, due to a lot of arguments against the club president. The selection of the coach, the players came, and the recent transfers of Panathinaikos players, made the atmosphere really strange to their camp, the fans are against all these decisions made, and against the relationship with Panathinaikos that brings some players every season to them.
To the field, OFI started the season with a home defeat against PAOK (0:2). Terrible perfomance, a defence thin like paper, and Popovic totally alone in front. With more luck PAOK should leave from there with more goals to their bags. Their preparation period was terrible too, loosing matches from lower leagues teams and leaving a lot of questions.
All in all, noone from Crete seems to be interested for this game, except their squad. The fans are already preparing for a mass demostration to the roads against OFI president, instead to have interest for this game.
































