The Asteras Gazette
Match26 Sep 2029
The small margins put Asteras out
Out, 0‑1 to AEL Larisa, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad1 Oct 2029
A one-man rearguard from Sokratis Dioudis
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.
Market1 Oct 2029
Giorgos Charalampoglou has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Asteras they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
Griffin Dillon runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Tempers go at Asteras
Julián Bartolo 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.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
Dimitris Emmanouilidis in the eights
A performance of 8.88 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad1 Oct 2029
The manager makes an example of Bartosz Żelazowski
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Asteras lose Panagiotis Mantazelis
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
One of those days for Giorgos Charalampoglou
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings Nicolás Castagno keeps on missing
- Match Dimitris Emmanouilidis rescues a point for Asteras