I heard EPO didn't like the Olympiakos fans favoring their own players, and being hostile to fans of other teams. Sometimes EPO also gets it in their heads that Greeks outside the Athens area would support the ethniki more passionately.
Just makes sense in every way. Perfect size, check. Great atmosphere, check. Looks better if attendance not good, check. Near Athens, considering over half the country lives in/near Athens, you guessed it, check.
I think every country is on roughly the same timeline waiting for the vaccines to become widely available. So that being the case, if fans aren't an issue, where is the best place to play?
I mean, I thought it was possible, and for sure I thought we could at least get a point off them at home. And yeah, it is kind of sad that just winning our first game ended up being enough to finish better than Marseille, although we should have beaten Marseille twice.
I think compared to preseason expectations, this group went about how you'd expect it to. MAYBE we could have shocked Porto, but it was a coin toss to see if we would be better than Marseille. Luckily that BS that happened in Marseille didn't affect anything in the long run.