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Savvidis gave them a fakelaki. They looked inside. They said NOT ENOUGH. Now they are negotiating.

I believe we are stacked at Left back anyway. With Lykogiannis and Koutris improving and Tsimikas playing well and also with Stafylidis being the better left back. That's 4 players we can look at. Right back it's only Torosidis and Bakakis. Skibbe likes to play Retsos at fullback as well. Maybe we need to start utilizing our defence and play a 5-2-3. I'm still a big fan of Papadopoulos and I was like to see him play more often. But Sokratis and Manolas are too good to be left out. Siovas has improved a lot since moving to Spain. He has to be a back up instead of Tzavellas. Pelkas, Donis, Fortounis, Mantalos, Karelis, Mitroglou, Lazaros, Bakasetas and Gianniotas are the players that have to create and score goals. The problem lies in the middle of the midfield. Samaris doesn't run into space and Zeca is only good for defence. Tachtsidis has good passes but is not that solid at keeping his position. Tziolis forget about it. I'd like to see new faces there. Charisis and Bouchalakis should be experimented. They both like to create and are good at shooting. Something we have missed in this position since Karagounis. Siopis is too small and Galanopoulos needs more time. Kourbelis might be the answer but all these players are holding players. We really need a number 8. Who can run into space and even get in the box. Karagounis was good at this. Katsouranis was. Even Zagorakis was. Maybe Fortounis or Mantalos should play that deeper role and one behind the striker. I would give Fortounis a chance as the number 8 with Zeca or Kourbelis covering the defence.

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Ι think it's "mission accomplished" in football - I don't care about 1st vs 2nd place. It's time to start next season's planning. Now, in basketball: the Panionios game is a MUST WIN and then I think we will be safe as they will be 2 points behind and we will have two wins against them (we beat them away). Faros is struggling as well, they have a very difficult schedule and I don't think they can win any of the remaining 3 games. In theory Aris can win all remaining games - or at least the 2 games at home (Panionios - Rethymno).

According to the article below Aris needs two victories in the remaining 6 matches (two games will not be played since Axarnaikos and Veroia have folded) to earn the promotion. Our next opponent will be tough to defeat, for starters they appear to be playing good soccer these days but most importantly we play them on the road in a Salonika derby. http://www.pressaris.gr/μόλις-έξι-βαθμούς-θέλει-ο-άρης-σε-έξι-μα/