Marked for António Gil
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match11 Sep 2038
7‑4, and António Gil took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Panathinaikos tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad13 Sep 2038
The words a physio says slowly. 64 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings13 Sep 2038
Two goals and a mark of 9.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings13 Sep 2038
A brace, and António Gil takes the afternoon — 9.14
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. António Gil provided it, and the 9.14 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings13 Sep 2038
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad13 Sep 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match11 Sep 2038
Nobody wants to play Panathinaikos right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad13 Sep 2038
Oliver Sørensen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match11 Sep 2038
11 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Panathinaikos and AEL Larisa in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad6 Sep 2038
The words a physio says slowly. 73 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad6 Sep 2038
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings6 Sep 2038
Age has not caught Andrej Ilić yet — 8.52
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.52 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad6 Sep 2038
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market6 Sep 2038
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad6 Sep 2038
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Altay Bayındır commits to Panathinaikos for another 2 years.
Player ratings6 Sep 2038
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings6 Sep 2038
Marked 9.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match4 Sep 2038
OFI made Panathinaikos work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Crisis
Squad15 Mar 2038
Defences have started doubling up on Adriano Jagušić
16 goals and a season average of 8.05 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match11 Mar 2038
1‑2 against Partizan. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Squad15 Mar 2038
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad15 Mar 2038
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad15 Mar 2038
Adriano Jagušić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market15 Mar 2038
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniele Petrone will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Panathinaikos the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Squad15 Feb 2038
16 goals and a season average of 8.05. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
Two goals and a mark of 9.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.08, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
Anass Zaroury, 37, rolls back the years — 8.31
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.31 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market15 Feb 2038
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Panathinaikos heard it as anything else.
Match13 Feb 2038
A 6‑4 win over Atromitos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Adriano Jagušić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match13 Feb 2038
10 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Panathinaikos and Atromitos in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Steady
Squad8 Feb 2038
21 goals and a season average of 7.84. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad8 Feb 2038
383 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Panathinaikos know what they have.
Squad8 Feb 2038
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2038
Andrews Tetteh, 36, rolls back the years — 8.04
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market8 Feb 2038
Anass Zaroury wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Panathinaikos hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad8 Feb 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 Feb 2038
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniele Petrone will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Panathinaikos the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match6 Feb 2038
A 3‑2 win over Kifisia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings8 Feb 2038
Marked 9.27 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Steady
Match23 Jan 2038
5‑1, and Adriano Jagušić took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Panathinaikos tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad25 Jan 2038
Defences have started doubling up on Adriano Jagušić
14 goals and a season average of 7.95 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad25 Jan 2038
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad25 Jan 2038
The match ball belongs to Adriano Jagušić, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market25 Jan 2038
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Panathinaikos, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings25 Jan 2038
Age has not caught Andrews Tetteh yet — 8.15
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.15 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad25 Jan 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market25 Jan 2038
Gustavo Fonte has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Panathinaikos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match23 Jan 2038
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Panathinaikos and Levadiakos in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Dec 2037
Two goals and a mark of 10.00 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad28 Dec 2037
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Dec 2037
Defences have started doubling up on Giorgos Katris
16 goals and a season average of 7.73 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings28 Dec 2037
Age has not caught Anass Zaroury yet — 8.09
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Dec 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2037
A 5‑3 win over Asteras, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Dec 2037
Oliver Sørensen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match26 Dec 2037
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Panathinaikos and Asteras, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings28 Dec 2037
Giorgos Katris was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2037
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2037
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.36 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad7 Dec 2037
412 appearances across 13 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad7 Dec 2037
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Santino Andino and Panathinaikos agree another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2037
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Dec 2037
Whatever happens, Panathinaikos do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market7 Dec 2037
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Player ratings7 Dec 2037
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Match26 Nov 2037
A European night to remember for Panathinaikos
3‑3 against Portimonense, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match28 Nov 2037
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against PAOK, and it could have been more.
Player ratings30 Nov 2037
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.62, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match28 Nov 2037
Panathinaikos make home a hard place to visit
15 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad30 Nov 2037
14 goals and a season average of 7.63. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings30 Nov 2037
Andrews Tetteh, 36, rolls back the years — 8.28
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.28 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad30 Nov 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2037
Words at Panathinaikos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adriano Jagušić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match26 Nov 2037
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Panathinaikos and Portimonense in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Upbeat
Player ratings16 Nov 2037
A brace, and Giorgos Katris takes the afternoon — 9.38
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Giorgos Katris provided it, and the 9.38 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad16 Nov 2037
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings16 Nov 2037
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.66 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad16 Nov 2037
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2037
11 goals and a season average of 7.51. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match14 Nov 2037
Nobody wants to play Panathinaikos right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match14 Nov 2037
Atromitos made Panathinaikos work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings16 Nov 2037
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Match17 Oct 2037
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Panathinaikos did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2037
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2037
Adriano Jagušić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings19 Oct 2037
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.58, and 2 involvements.
Match17 Oct 2037
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad19 Oct 2037
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrews Tetteh, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2037
A performance of 9.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad19 Oct 2037
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match17 Oct 2037
A 2‑2 draw with Olympiacos leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2037
Anass Zaroury damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match17 Sep 2037
2‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Panathinaikos came through the finding-out well against Portimonense.
Player ratings21 Sep 2037
Nobody could get near Ryan Metu
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Sep 2037
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.10, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2037
Andrej Ilić, 37, rolls back the years — 8.42
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.42 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad21 Sep 2037
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2037
Adriano Jagušić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match19 Sep 2037
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match19 Sep 2037
A 1‑0 win over Volos NPS, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2037
A knee injury of the worst kind for Anass Zaroury
56 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Panathinaikos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Sep 2037
“The easiest signature of my career.” Facundo Pellistri and Panathinaikos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Sep 2037
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2037
Adriano Jagušić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings7 Sep 2037
António Gil was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match5 Sep 2037
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. António Gil had Panathinaikos level again within 3 minutes, and OFI never got to play with a lead at all.
Player ratings7 Sep 2037
The chances came and went for Andrews Tetteh
11 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Match5 Sep 2037
It needed António Gil to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against OFI, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market7 Sep 2037
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Adriano Jagušić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Match23 Feb 2037
Position 2 and 54 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings23 Feb 2037
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.95 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad23 Feb 2037
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad23 Feb 2037
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Santino Andino, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad23 Feb 2037
15 goals and a season average of 7.54. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad23 Feb 2037
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match21 Feb 2037
Whatever happens, Panathinaikos do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings23 Feb 2037
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom23 Feb 2037
90% of the income goes out in wages at Panathinaikos
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Upbeat
Match14 Feb 2037
Panathinaikos are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 20 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match14 Feb 2037
Atromitos will want this one forgotten quickly: 7‑2, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Panathinaikos were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad16 Feb 2037
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Feb 2037
15 goals and a season average of 7.82. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad16 Feb 2037
The match ball belongs to António Gil, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings16 Feb 2037
Two goals and a mark of 8.14 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad16 Feb 2037
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings16 Feb 2037
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.96 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market16 Feb 2037
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Panathinaikos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Upbeat
Match10 Jan 2037
A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 4‑3, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.
Match10 Jan 2037
No clean sheets in sight for Panathinaikos
15 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match10 Jan 2037
At 2 goals adrift this was a formality, and the formality lasted right up until it did not. Panathinaikos found something the first half had given no notice of, and AEK could not hold what they had.
Squad12 Jan 2037
Defences have started doubling up on Adriano Jagušić
12 goals and a season average of 7.70 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad12 Jan 2037
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market12 Jan 2037
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad12 Jan 2037
Emre Bilgin: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Panathinaikos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Jan 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Jan 2037
There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Panathinaikos support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.
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Upbeat
Match22 Nov 2036
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 8‑2 against Panetolikos, and it could have been more.
Player ratings24 Nov 2036
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 Nov 2036
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings24 Nov 2036
Age has not caught Andrews Tetteh yet — 9.29
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.29 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad24 Nov 2036
Facundo Pellistri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Nov 2036
Santino Andino falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match22 Nov 2036
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Player ratings24 Nov 2036
Adriano Jagušić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.97. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Upbeat
Squad3 Nov 2036
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match1 Nov 2036
At 3 goals adrift this was a formality, and the formality lasted right up until it did not. Panathinaikos found something the first half had given no notice of, and Aris Thessaloniki could not hold what they had.
Squad3 Nov 2036
The match ball belongs to Adriano Jagušić, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match3 Nov 2036
22 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad3 Nov 2036
379 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Panathinaikos know what they have.
Player ratings3 Nov 2036
Age has not caught Anass Zaroury yet — 8.18
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad3 Nov 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Nov 2036
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Panathinaikos heard it as anything else.