Bookd • Olympiakos Piraeus 0-0 NEC Nijmegen

Olympiakos Piraeus0 - 0NEC Nijmegen

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Champions League · Aug 4, 2026

Lucas@carbonfiverr

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Aug 4

Long review time again because i love my country. Not the best game but im proud of NEC, i think there wasnt too much hope of a good performance in the UCL from most people, at least from Dutch perspective. With Sano suddenly not being available, bit weird how that went, he already was in Greece and said he wanted to play both games with NEC, but ends up leaving early for his medical at PSV tomorrow. Kinda scummy imo. Tactically NEC is obviously great, super aggressive with their pressing just like last season. But its early season, i dont know if that will continue to go well once you get midweek games until at least January. Started rough this game but really picked themselves up after that. Seeing Tadic again was sad, wish he just joined us again but oh well, also funny seeing Emre Mor again, fifa 17 wonderkid. Tobias Storm played well, exciting player. Crettaz, Nejasmic, and Sandler amazing as ever. I really hope they can do something next week, one thing i do know is that it will have a incredible atmosphere in De Goffert. Fun stat is that they are the first team since PSV in 2021 against Midtjylland to have a clean sheet in a away game in the UCL. Man of the match could either be Popovic for good goalkeeping, or Nejasmic who was just incredible at midfield for NEC, so ill go with Nejasmic.

davem14@davem14

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Aug 4

very interesting match despite being goalless. heard good things about nijmegen tactically and i wasn’t disappointed, their man to man press was incredible at times. also was impressed by the ball playing abilities of Sandler and Crettaz and Fonville made a few overlapping runs from CB too. Chery was very involved dropping deep as well. Sadly there wasn’t too much attacking brilliance here. Game massively opened up when Martins, Jota, Mor and Tadic were subbed on. Nejasmic solid defensively. Definitely not a game for a casual but a fascinating tactical display mainly from NEC.

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