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If that's a penalty then so is the one on Platellas. It's the same amount of contact.

http://www.sport-fm.gr/article/podosfairo/marinakis-auti-i-aek-den-einai-megali-omada/3115650 Karpazies apo pantou trws Melisanidis. You promised us a team that can compete for a title, a stadium, and an end to the paragka, all of which would happen in our first year back, you went 0/3. The only difference between you and Admidis is that we are debt free now, and you have money, Adamidis didn't. What's your excuse tigrako?

Not a chance he saw this game

Yes, the ref mistakes were terrible with the offsides but honestly that doesn't take away from the critical mistakes Dellas made that caused the blowout. Simoes was our best player, why did he get taken off? Ok I get it we needed to attack more to get a tie but Platellas or Barbosa should have been taking off instead since they were both gassed and because if we were still playing this game they will still be missing on their crosses, we also wouldn't have given up the midfield like that. I truthfully felt bad for Johanson all alone in the middle going against Kasami Chori Milivojevic and Fortounis for a little. Up until the 60th minute we were playing extremely well and it was an even game, that's the sad thing. One m*****a and it all gets ruined and turned into a blowout. Didac, Simoes, Johanson, Baroja, and Galo all played well. Galo was really unlucky to be fouled on the first goal and be called for that penalty... Mantalos was ok, he disappeared in the second half tho. Platellas, and Barbosa did their jobs, crosses were kind of s%$#! and Barbosa should have scored on the empty net when it was 2-0 but they pressed well. Aravidis, Tzanetopoulos, and Labropoulos were terrible. The CBS were exposed after Simoes came off. A certain Gataki "filathlo/proedro" also needs to be called out and made accountable for this mess. A lot of talk from him for two years now and we are still without a stadium, without players, without a coach, and the refs are just as bad as ever.

You take off Barbosa for Buononotte because Barbosa was on a yellow, you do not take out your best player in Simoes who was playing fantastic and keeping the team together. You saw what happened when he came off. Dellas shat the bed in yet another big game, he shat himself against PAOK, today, and against Olympiakos at home last year. He got lucky against Veria and Atromitos that he was bailed out. How many more chances?

Botia fouled Galo on the first goal, Dellas is completely at blame for goals 2 and 3 for taking off Simoes, and a bullshit penalty for the 4th. Dellas leave.

Botia pushed Galo downed before he scored... We were all over them, Aravidis should have done better on that breakaway, and Mantalos on the second break away should have shot right away instead of trying to pass the defender...

Completely agree, just look at the pictures of the 5 star hotel Kyzas has been staying at before the game. Usually they are at some shitty hotel. Not to mention how he gave half of our players yellow cards in the Xanthi game for breathing on the other players but Xanthi was playing aggressive and got less cards than is. Our defenders and mids need to make sure they don't get a yellow card early on.

Buononotte won't start because our wing backs will need help in this game to deal with Fortounis, Pardo, and possibly Chori. Buononotte doesn't have the physical ability to run up and down the field for 60 minutes, let alone 90. Of course Aravidis is starting, we have no one else and this is the perfect game for him to pressure the back line and do what he does best. Should be a good game if the ref allows it, the one game I've seen Kyzas ref he called fouls very very very easily and the game didn't have a rhythem.

Hopefully by then we have a coach...

We play Luxembourg on November 13th according to Grigitzis interview.

So looks like Dellas is going with the lineup from last year and will have the team pressure them right away like we did last year but haven't done this year since the Platanias game. ---------------------------Baroja---------------- Galo----Tzanetopoulos----Labropoulos-----Didac ------------------Simoes--------Johanson-------------- Platellas---------------Mantalos--------------Barbosa ---------------------------Aravidis-------------------------- They are a much better team this year than last year, but so are we. Last year they didn't take us that seriously, this year they will but they will also have their mind on the big champions league game on Tuesday so we need to be ready either way. The difference between this year and last year is that we are much better in the midfield, at left back, and at goalkeeper, but we also have two great technical players like Buononotte and Vargas that can help off the bench if we are losing, or if we are winning at the end and need to hold the ball. Cordero should also be available off the bench for this one, something he wasn't last year. I'm not expecting much from this game, but I want us to play hard and not scared, the exact opposite of what we did against PAOK.

We lost 96-94 to Krasni in over time, the refs handed them the win. Mavrokefalidis had an amazing game with 42 points... Krima.

A blow out and we played on half speed. The game I'm really looking forward to is on Sunday night, Patriots vs Colts. People under the age of 18 shouldn't watch that game, watching that rape is too much for their young minds.

Great pass by Mantalos on that goal

Screw it, we should be starting our bench players to see if they can offer anything to this team: Vellidis Kitsiou Sokratis Tzanetopoulos Stafylidis Tachtsidis Samaris Mantalos Fortounis Pelkas Karelis Play all the youngsters to see what they have, play Samaris and Sokratis because we have no other players in those positions. However we have Tsanas as coach so we will see this: Karnezis Torosidis Sokratis Vyntra Holebas Samaris Tziolis Aravidis Kone Karelis Mitroglou Because Tziolis needs to get more caps and this tried and tested lineup has gotten us 1/3rd of our goals, Tsanas will use this .

We are so bad

^^^Nah ESPN3 always gets the formations way off. 4-3-3 just like last time and will be just as ineffective

We lost to Aris in the quarter final of the Greek Cup 64-61. We played away from home, three of our important players like DJ Carter, Sakota, and Katsivelis were all out injured. Our starting center was signed on Tuesday and played on Wednesday night without practicing because we were that desperate. He didn't play well yesterday but from what I read he's a rebounding machine and lead the Italian league in rebounds two years in a row. Unfortunately I'm not so sure that this team is better than last year. We've lost every important game at the very end from mistakes by our coach Sakota, might need to replace him if he continues like this. We have a very easy schedule to start the year, there's no excuse not to win at least 7 of the first 8 games.

So any guesses on our lineup after all these injuries?

----------------------------Baroja-------------------------- Galo-----Tzanetopoulos----Labropoulos----Didac -----------------Johanson----Simoes------------------- Platellas/Barbosa----Mantalos------Buonanotte-- ----------------------------Aravidis------------------------ This is what I would use against the gavro. Labropoulos is our fastest and strongest defender so he has to play against that quick attacking line that the gavro has. Kolovetsios seems to s%$#! his pants in big games so we need to bench him. Platellas or Barbosa are a must, we need their energy and defending on the wing. Mantalos has to be our dekari, his absence was felt against PAOK, he can link up our defense and offense well for us. He also comes back on defense to help or to receive the ball and start a quick counter attack which we need to do. Buonanotte although not a winger can't be left out because he has way too much quality to be benched, if he can find some space he can make some magic happen. Aravidis no explanation needed, he's all we got. Chrisantus can be useful if we go down, if you watch him closely his off ball movements and ball control are all very good and clever but his finishing is an issue, it might be a psychological problem but now that he got his first goal I expect him to be better now that some pressure is off. There's also a chance that Djebour will be ready to make a substitute appearance in this game. Unfortunately the Gavro is in unbelievable form, they are playing at home, there players are much stronger and taller then ours, and they have more skill. If we come out and play with no pressure like we did last year then maybe we get something out of this game, if we feel the pressure then it can get ugly unless Baroja plays like he did against PAOK...

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Games been scheduled for Saturday October 17th at 8:30 Greek time.

The lineup was fine, we were all over them in the first half