It will a totally different game, including personnel changes. Vladan Ivić cannot count on injured José Alberto Cañas and on the suspended Pedro Henrique and Léo Matos. Stefanos Athanasiadis, on the other hand, served out his ban and returns to action.

Regarding Cañas, the Spanish player will have an MRI on Saturday morning, to determine the exact nature and extent of his medial collateral ligament injury. Dimitris Pelkas followed a personalized session of increasing intensity and is expected to return to trainings gradually come Monday.

Djalma Campos followed part of his teammates’ session, without complaining of hamstring pains. He is also training in increasing intensity preparing for his return to action.

Those who started the Xanthi game did special recuperation and decompression work with pool drills and physiotherapy in the neuro-reflexology corridor and cryotherapy sauna. The rest worked on finishing and on ball passing with games in reduced space.