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Fantastic to see them playing out of Toumba for a change instead of the potato field at Mesimvria

These guys are also now predicting 91% chance of us making the top 24 and 14% chance of top 8. I'd expect the top 8 chance to only marginally increase if we beat Brann (as we are favored), so we'd need to upset Lyon to make very big progress. Also, for fun, here are the others that are ahead of us, sorted by % chance of top 8: Aston Villa 92% Midtjylland 87% Lyon 85% Freiburg 73% Real Betis 55% Porto 51% Celta Vigo 50% Braga 41% Ferencvaros 32% Fenerbahce 29% Roma 32% Lille 29% Stuttgart 21% Genk 22% Viktoria Plzen 22% Nottingham Forest 20% Bologna 19% PAOK 14% Perusing the next two match days, some interesting matches that can affect all that: 27 Nov (our Brann game): Fenerbahce vs Ferencvaros - both above us, any result will see us improve relative to someone Bologna vs Red Bull Salzburg - RB can beat Bologna, which would be great Victoria Plzen vs Freiburg - same idea as Fenerbahce's game Roma vs Midtjylland - we'd have to hope for a Roma loss 11 Dec (our Ludogorets game): Midtjylland vs Genk - again, hope for Midtjylland to keep winning Celta Vigo vs Bologna - hope for a Bologna loss Brann vs Fenerbahce - Brann is currently right below us so if we do win our tie then we can potentially have some help if they somehow beat Fenerbahce Young Boys vs Lille - very long shot but Young Boys taking a few points off Lille would be huge for us

congrats to our team for the win !

So after the great result vs Young Boys, an updated stat from the famous "football meets data." They still haven't released the full "top 8" and "top 24" percentages, but I'd imagine we slightly improved for the top 8 as well. Also, for Greece in general:

+2.000 points added to our tally as the minimum starting bonus of 3.000 was reached with the draw vs Maccabi and win vs Lille. 42.250 points in the ranking and #53.

Closed the gap slightly with Czechia and got a little bit more distance from Poland!

To reap benefits from the win against Lille, we need to win this game as well. This will not be very easy game at all.

2-0 for our U19. Antonis Aretis with a brace after being subbed in in the 71st minute. Next opponent Legia Warszawa. Despite losing 3-2 today the aggregate score was in their favour: 6-4.

I really hope that we call up some new faces. But I don’t think Ivan will do it. This team needs youth involved. Also Pantelidis has been performing really well for Kifisia. Kyziridis also doing very well for Hearts. Both not really world class but I can see that they can improve the Greek team. The generation of Mantalos, Bakasetas ect are not helping this team reach the next level. We need players with close control and talent. I don’t see why Tzimas and Kostoulas don’t get called up. Both look ready for this team even in the limited amount of game time they’ve had. When they’ve played for Brighton they’ve looked great. Greece is starting to produce a lot of good strikers. Theres around 8-10 players with 5 playing at the highest level. Theres even some wonderkids coming through in the Greek u19s. That’s what we need I just hope we can get some midfielders coming in with high potential. Mouzakitis is a great start. We have to also reward inform players. If it was up to me I’d go with this list currently. Tzolakis, Vlachodimos, Tsiftsis, Vagiannidis, Kostiras, Retsos, Koulierakis, Mavropanos, Hatzidiakos, Tsimikas, Giannoulis, Mouzakitis, Triantis, Zafeiris, Ntoi, Konstantelias, Karetsas, Kaloskamis, Kyziridis, Pantelidis, Tzolis, Ioannidis, Pavlidis, Douvikas, Tzimas, Kostoulas We have nothing to play for but we should start building for the next competition. Try different things and get new faces in.

Aris lost 2:1 even though they played with extra man for 25 minute. I that span they of time they could hardly make a pass, let alone score a goal. We have to win tomorrow and then go to play Panathinaikos who will be hard pressed to get points. Hopefully we won't resurrect them.