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Lovren makes his return

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Kenny is suspended for this match after his third yellow.

Greece actually has a shot at 10th - one more team more than Czech Republic. PAO can actually knock out one of their teams as well. Turkey 6.700 11.800 12.000 10.300 8.275 49.075 3/ 5 10 Czech Republic 6.700 6.750 13.500 10.550 9.725 47.225 3/ 5 11 Greece 8.000 2.125 11.400 12.687 12.100 46.312 4/ 5 12 Poland 4.625 7.750 6.875 11.750 13.625 44.625 3/ 4 13 Denmark 7.800 5.900 8.500 7.656 11.750 41.606 1/ 4 14 Norway 7.625 5.750 8.000 11.812 6.550 39.737 2/ 5 15 Cyprus 4.125 5.100 3.750 10.562 11.906 35.443 2/ 4 16 Switzerland 7.750 8.500 5.200 7.050 6.000 34.500 1/ 5 17 Austria 10.400 4.900 4.800 9.650 4.100 33.850 5 18 Scotland 7.900 3.500 6.400 9.250 4.600 31.650 1/ 5 19 Sweden 5.125 6.250 1.875 11.375 5.000 29.625

I bet you're right about the "flooding the midfield" plan. They might have done it even if Konstantelias wasn't suspended (with him playing LW). This is the classic Lucescu fallback when he sees the threat. Hopefully Zafeiris will show his quality there.

So AJ Ginnis is our hopeful for Greece's first ever medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

Olympiakos gets Bayer Leverkusen again This tie is 50/50, I think it's doable to advance.

It will for sure be a tough tie. I guess Red Star was the "easier" potential opponent but that would have just about guaranteed fan clashes. As Dutch says, they are 3 big absences for the first leg. I wonder if Mythou or Jeremeff (I assume he'll be one of three added to the list along with Zaferis) will start the first leg. Obviously the game is a long way out, but early thoughts are also that Zaferis may start as the "10" with Ozdoev and Meite behind him in an attempt to keep our midfield packed and compact. Clearly form and availability will impact who is selected come Feb 19, and we do have a lot of football to play until the first leg.

Brandon Thomas scored again today and has scored now four consecutive leaguegames for Apollon Lemesos.

Yes, there was a 5 Euro general admission for this game. Toumba will be full.

Tough draw. We are definitively not the favorites to advance, but I don't think that is necessarily bad.

Kickoff first leg 19.:45 EET Kickoff return 22:00 EET

Panserraikos will not use gate 8 in order for us to fill the stadium after Tuesday's crash of our fellow-PAOKtzides in Romania. Game is allready sold out. But there will be some people of Serres to bring a wreath and honor the lads that died.

A pity we will miss Delias (2 yellows yesterday), Giakoumakis (3 yellows during the League Phase) and Lucescu (red) in our homegame. But they will play in Spain. And we can make three substitutions in our list. Thursday February 5th is the deadline.

You can thank our "wunderkind"

Yea and if we advance we either face Lyon or Villa. Meanwhile PAO gets Plzen & then either Midjtylland or Betis.

Ugh...

Celta again it is. First leg is on February 19th at Toumba. Return on February 26th away.

The last time this happened, Greece end up winning EURO 2004 : D

I found out that Olympiakos will get either Bayer Leverkusen or Atalanta in the playoff draw. I guess they do this by seeding in the order of where each team finished in the table. For example, #17 and #18 pair up with #15 and #16.

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Finishing 17th gives us 2,000 points in the ranking. A quick recap of this years EL League Phase: We did well with 4 opponents from the big 5 leagues. In comparison: Panathinaikos only got one. And they finished below us despite playing 5 opponents that are elminated. We only have two of those opponents. To be exact. We played #1 and #4. 4 teams from #9-#24. And 2 eliminated teams. Pana played #8. 2 teams from #9-#24. And the 5 formentioned elimated teams. The draw is tomorrow, btw.

FT 4-2. We finished 17th. We will face Crvena zvezda (better known as Red Star Belgrade) or Celta (de) Vigo.

And there is the 4-2.

Camara our last sub. Ozdoyev subbed out.