Olympiakos – Aston Villa 2:0, Olympiakos didn’t give Aston Villa a chance and will challenge Fiorentina in the Conference League final

The 30-year-old Moroccan will wake the “Villans” from their sleep for a long time to come. In the 10th minute, he followed up his hat trick from the first game. Olympiakos dismantled the opponent’s defense with a combination in the box, Quini served the final pass and Kaabí easily hit the open goal. Piraeus therefore had a three-goal advantage in the sum of the opening duel practically from the start of the rematch. With nine goals, the Gunner became the leader of the competition’s scorers’ table, one goal ahead of Israeli Zahavi from Tel Aviv.

It didn’t matter to the fourth-placed Premier League side that they were more active in the first half. It was mainly Bailey who tried to finish. He got his best chance just before the break, he leaned on the ball from the middle distance and goalkeeper Tzolakis struggled to take a slightly pointed shot into the corner. The guests also pressed in the second half, but the excellently organized defense of the Greeks did not let them have any chances.

So the phantom of the semi-final took the last word. He ran onto Tzolakis’s long kick from his own penalty area, got to the break a little after halfway and shot past the goalkeeper in a separate escape. The video referee spent a long time investigating whether it was offside, but the goal was ultimately valid. Kaabí rounded off the total score to ten goals, but most importantly ensured a sensational progress.

Aston Villa will very likely play in the Champions League next season, but they did not meet this year’s cup goal. They tried in vain to reach their first continental final since winning the previous European Cup in 1981/82.

Unlike the opponent, Olympiakos had a week off between the two games and was able to take advantage of it. He won for the fifth time in a row at home in a competitive game. It became only the second Greek club after Panathinaikos (PMEZ in 1971) to reach the final of one of the European cups.

Antonín Barák thus recognized the last opponent in the competition. A year ago, the Czech national team player failed in the Prague EKL final against West Ham with the Violets. This year, the team of the Czech national team must prepare for the fact that its last opponent in the competition will have an almost home environment. The port of Piraeus falls within the agglomeration of the capital city of Athens and is connected to it by public transport, so Olympiakos fans will have to overcome a distance of only 15 kilometers between the stadiums.