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OLYMPIC
INTIME SPORTS
The last time Zelson had a better early season performance was in 2017-18 for Sporting, which saw him move to Atletico for €22,000,000 at the end of that season.
Zelson already surpassed last year’s performance at Olympiakos, when in the second half of the season he had two goals and three assists in 15 games. Gelson Martins now has two goals and six assists in 13 games in all competitions and we’re only through the first ten days of November. Now, he is preparing to surpass the harvest he had in the 2021-21 season for Monaco, where he scored five goals and distributed four assists in 47 matches.
The experienced striker had a goal and an assist against PAOK and was Olympiakos’ top performing player in Toumba. The 29-year-old winger had scored against Dikefalos (from an assist by Podense) and last season in the Piraeus team’s 2-1 victory in Karaiskakis for the league play offs, on April 21, 2024. However, on Sunday night the performance of the born in Cape Verde, but once an international with Portugal footballer was drawn from his good days at Sporting and Monaco.
Reminds me of Sporting’s Martins
The last time Martins had scored a goal and distributed an assist in the same game, as now in the victorious game of Olympiakos against PAOK (3-2), was three years ago and, specifically, in Monaco’s home match against Metz (4-0), on December 5, 2021. He had done the same a year earlier, in the home game against Bordeaux (4-0), on November 1, 2020, as well as against Saint Etienne (2-3), on May 5, 2019.
However, the last time the experienced winger had a goal and an assist in an away match was for Sporting against Steaua (5-1) on 23 August 2017. In that period (2017-18), Martins had things and wonders with the “lions” of Lisbon, as he had 13 goals and 13 assists in 52 games in all competitions. In fact, he had scored against Olympiakos in “Karaiskakis” (3-2) in the group stage of the Champions League. And at the end of that season – in July 2028 – he was transferred to Atlético for 22,000,000 euros.
In the summer and autumn of 2017, Zelson had a strong start to the season with Sporting, as he had five goals and five assists by mid-November. Now, as we mentioned above, he has two goals and six assists with Olympiakos. This is Martins best start in the last seven seasons and this is a positive message for the red and whites and hopeful for the rest of the season.
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