
In early March, Olympiacos lost 4-1 at home to Robbie Keane’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, in the last 16 of the Europa Conference League. Defeated, humiliated, their continental dream looked over for yet another year.
Four months previously, they’d been unceremoniously booted out of the Europa League, with one group game to spare, after a 5-0 loss to Freiburg. This European campaign had not gone well.