A goal from Moroccan Yusef El-Arabi in the 89th minute, when his side were outnumbered and Aris had just missed a penalty, put Olympiacos led by Spaniard José Miguel González ‘Míchel’ ahead of the cup semi-finals on Wednesday soccer greece.
The Colombian James Rodríguez played half an hour of the match. He came on for Mathieu Valbuena after 60 minutes.
Jamaican Andre Gray missed a penalty to Aris in the 82nd minute, awarded after the play that led to the exclusion of Andreas Ntoi that left Olympiacos with ten players on the field at the Kleanthis Vikelidis stadium in Thessaloniki.
And seven minutes later, El-Arabi did not forgive Spain’s goalkeeper Julián Cuesta and scored with a cross shot after completing a counter-attack to secure the place for the semi-finals of Míchel’s team, who also won 1-0 in the first leg. seal.
Olympiakos will meet AEK Athens in the semifinals, the executioner of Panserraikos both in the first leg (3-0) and Wednesday in the first leg (1-3) with a brace from Theodosis Macheras.
The other two quarter-finals will be played on Thursday: Lamia-Apollon Paralimniou (first leg 2-1) and Panathinakos-PAOK (first leg 0-2).
Source: El heraldo
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