A week ago, in the first match between Lens and Panathinaikos, Przemysław Frankowski was a much happier Pole. His goal opened the scoring, and Wesley Said increased the score. Fotis Ioannidis scored the consolation goal.
Drągowski the hero. Frankowski eliminated from the cups
The return match could have started better for the guests. In the 15th minute of the match, Florian Sotoca took a penalty, but lost the duel with Bartłomiej Drągowski. As it turned out later – this was the match of the Polish goalkeeper. The Flashsocre portal chose him as the best player of the match. The goalkeeper did his best to protect his team from conceding a goal.
He managed to keep a clean sheet, and his teammates scored two sensational goals in the second half. First, Uruguayan Facundo Pellistri scored. The winger, who was a Manchester United player until recently, took advantage of Ioannidis's pass and opened the scoring.
When it seemed that the match was heading inexorably into extra time, the hosts launched a deadly counterattack. In the 85th minute of the match, the Mancini-Tete duo finally destroyed the representatives of Ligue 1. The 2-0 win means that the Greeks will play in the Europa Conference League. Lens, who recently played in the Champions League, will spend this season outside the European cups.
Panathinaikos 2-0 Lens (0-0)
Goals: Facundo Pellistri'62, Tete'85
Panathinaikos: Drągowski (gk) – Kotsiras (61'Vagiannidis), Ingason (79'Schenkeveld), Jedvaj, Mladenović – Cerin (61'Maksimović), Arao – Tete, Bakasetas (61'Mancini), Pellistri (82'Djuricić) – Ioannidis ( k)
coach: Diego Alonso
Lens: Samba (gk) (k) – Gradit (87'Nzola), Khusanov, Sarr (71'Haidara) – Frankowski, Thomasson, Diouf, Machado (71'Chavez) – da Costa (66'Fulgini) – Sotoca, Said (67 'Lascars)
coach: Will Still
- judge: Jose Luis Munuera Montero
- yellow cards: Tete – Frankowski, Gradit, Haidara