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At the highest levels you have to make your own luck, that's not an adequate excuse imo. The problem with the 442 is we don't have the central mids to run and cover box to box when we do not have possession. Pelkas has played poorly but the dude basically drops back and acts as a box-to-box midfielder so he's spending loads of energy, isn't in the advanced positions he needs to be to be effective, and is gassed by the 65'. Omar is also not built for that at all he commits tragically inept fouls because he does not know how to defend. Agree Abel takes some blame here because he needed to adjust his system to the personnel until he could get his type players. His entire system is based on the defend-by-having-the-ball, which we are not built to run. Under no circumstances should we concede 2 goals at home to a team like this.

We never really had much luck in the group draw, but that is what makes a result all the more sweeter!

Group B FC Bayern Munich Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Olympiacos F.C. Red Star Belgrade

Pathetic performance. Big changes need to be made if they want to be on par with Olympiakos in Europe.

Mitroglou just subbed in for PSV against Apollon Limassol and scored two minutes later.

I love everything Savvidis and team have done for us these last several years, but we need to be honest. This looks like it will be the 2nd year in a row we cant even make the UEL group stage. The Superleague is not competitive. If you want to be serious about Europe, you need to start planning your summer moves in January and be quick to invest in upgrading your squad. Even a squad that's undefeated champs it's the SL and it means nothing. I know this team should be able to handle Slavia anyway, but you need to constantly build to be dominant so these things don't happen. This roster wasn't good enough for group stages last year, we should not have taken it for granted that it would be good enough this year. A $3mill transfer for a center half that appears to be a substitute for now is simply inadequate. Your moves need to be locked up in June and the additions participate in camps and be completely part of the team fabric. If you don't improve your starting XI year after year, you are basically going backwards in today's game. This is a bitter, bitter disappointment if it holds.

It's some jack off team from Slovenia. No reason why PAOK shouldn't be demolishing them.

He hasn't played yet. OLY is keeping him out so he wont get hurt, they are trying to sell him.

Swiderski in for Pelkas

Finally Donis is healthy but yet he's not called up... I still would have called up Mitro at least as a bench option.

Squad of 23 announced Οδυσσέας Βλαχοδήμος, Βασίλης Μπάρκας, Αλέξανδρος Πασχαλάκης, Βασίλης Τοροσίδης, Μιχάλης Μπακάκης, Κώστας Τσιμίκας, Κώστας Σταφυλίδης, Σωκράτης Παπασταθόπουλος, Δημήτρης Σιόβας, Κώστας Μανωλάς, Μανώλης Σιώπης, Ανδρέας Μπουχαλάκης, Δημήτρης Κουρμπέλης, Κάρλος Ζέκα, Ανδρέας Σάμαρης, Γιώργος Μασούρας, Δημήτρης Πέλκας, Πέτρος Μάνταλος, Μάριος Βρουσάι, Δημήτρης Κολοβός, Γιάννης Φετφατζίδης, Ευθύμης Κουλούρης, Βαγγέλης Παυλίδης. https://www.epo.gr/News.aspx?a_id=49204&NewsType=22

That's what Juve said.

You should keep your match topics as they are instead of merging into one topic which takes away the memory topic Just my 5 cents

Thank you for the nice words file almand! Good luck to Aris this season also, I hope Ideye is as good for you all as he was for us.

Enjoy the game, teke!

Pukki will make us his bitch