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And to think, a long time ago, Lucescu teams had a completely unstoppable mentality.

Ahhh great Meite will come and give us some OFFENSIVE OOMPH, right? lol

4-1. unreal

wtf is Kedziora doing?

Oh damn and a nice headed goal by the opponents at 40 minutes. STOP BUYING GEORGIANS!

Possible penalty? I'm watching on mute but it seems Berdos may have been fouled in the box -edit- yup, Chalov to take it...and...goal!

I genuinely think they should require like 5-6 players to be youth!!!

I believe they're required to have an U-21 player on at all times, and it seems like it'll be Berdos to start. He is a 17 year old left winger. I'm sure Chalov will eventually make way for one of Chatsidis or Mythou. Would be nice to see all three of them at some point though. Levediakos is a bit less constrained than us, as they have a number of players who are 19 already in their roster. Will be interesting to see how our guys stack up.

Terrible quality streams today. Another positive, though - Panathinaikos lost to the mighty Kifisia

Or working out

Strange that they couldn't play it at literally any tiny field in Crete...surely the lack of fans would work in favor of that.

I've never heard a commentator describe a Greece game as "a mouthwatering prospect awaits"

Holy smokes you're right; I can see it as an upcoming event

He'll be out 2-3 weeks, which means he'll lose at least three games (OFI, Panaitolikos, Levadeiakos). Hopefully he won't miss the bigger comes that come up after that. No real update on Camara either.

One of the more interesting football accounts on twitter and instagram updated their direct qualification probabilities after yesterday's games. Before, Denmark was slightly favored to win the group. Obviously it is still early days but Monday will be potentially huge, one way or the other. This is probably the most evenly matched group (statistically) in UEFA qualifying.

^ 100% Team released an announcement video (with comments turned off) for this kid from Belarus. I'm hoping this is a B team kid. https://www.transfermarkt.com/pavel-apetenok/profil/spieler/1021348

If they're defensively strong, then this is great news. We have an overabundance of attacking talent. And my spirit animal Koulierakis might get annoyed and carry out some attacks on his own too. A good win here will make a serious statement.

Here you are my sweet child I will always look out for you

Going into this game with Denmark having drawn at home. Could be a huge chance to build up a lead here. Definitely need a win; could get unlucky in one or two of the three remaining tough games after this.

Unnatural movement to make one's body bigger - he clearly leaned (and the tuck made the arm look a bit bigger to boot). It's okay; he's a subpar player so you shouldn't expect perfection from him! Hopefully this easy game gave him what he needed and Jovanovic will allow an actual player to play next game.

Tossing the diving instructor a bone with the easy game, huh

Despodov hurt while in training with Bulgaria and is returning to Thessaloniki. Did we rush him back too soon? Not a great sign.

Reportedly we have agreed terms with Dinamo Minsk for this kid, who I'm guessing is destined for our B team: https://www.transfermarkt.com/pavel-apetenok/profil/spieler/1021348 I notice our B team is chock full of non-Greeks now. Hopefully some of these guys pan out: https://www.transfermarkt.com/paok-thessaloniki-b/kader/verein/91869/plus/0/galerie/0?saison_id=2025

Camara has some sort of bone bruise or swelling around his knee. It doesn't sound serious, but they are "assessing" for now. I'm guessing he'll be out a few weeks past the return of the internationals.

The team has less than a day to put a player on the European list; ain't no way he's leaving if they don't have the guy already en route. My bigger concern is that this is another example of the third-string youth being kicked back down to the B team. Chatsidis and Mythou will never get a moment's playing time; and at some point we'll loan them out, they'll be incredibly productive, and be sold.