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I put Akpom in at first but then pulled him because at least Swiderski is scoring. I think on a physical level, he'd be better for this game though.

Klonaridis also not coming to play for AEK as his contract is up too. For once we seem to have our contracts in order. Too bad the injuries have picked up. Pelkas and Vieirinha will be sitting this one out as well. Πασχαλάκης, Ζίβκοβιτς, Ροντρίγκο, Μάτος, Βαρέλα, Ίνγκασον, Μιχάι, Μιχαηλίδης, Γιαννούλης, Εσίτι, Μαουρίσιο, Ελ Καντουρί, Μπίσεσβαρ, Τσιγγάρας, Στοχ, Λημνιός, Λάμπρου, Άκπομ, Σφιντέρσκι, Τζόλης For me it's a pretty obvious lineup. --Pashalakis-- --Matos--Varela--Ingason--Giannoulis-- --Mauricio--El Kaddouri--Esiti-- --Tzolis--Swiderski--Stoch--

If we're relying on those guys to smarten up, then we may as well call it quits now!

All good moves (though Matos's was automatic anyway right? Or does it require mutual consent) For me, re-signing Vieirinha is important, but he needs to take a pay cut. Let Mauricio walk, his salary would cover literally three or four youth players, even if they get offered new deals (I think Tzolis already did?) If we were to get rid of Wernbloom and El Kaddouri, and sell two of our GKs (I don't really care who), I think we'd be in much better shape. I still think Stoch should stay but hey, what do I know? It's such a shame how Warda turned out. Such incredible potential. I wonder if Ferreira will try to bring him to the preseason camp, or if the team administration will have learned their lesson.

Hult did not extend his contract with AEK so they'll be playing without him. That's positive news for us. Their only other LB is Lopes who apparently is doubtful due to injury? Would be even better for us if they're forced to play a CB there.

It's part of EU law that we cannot win against a Dutch team

I do *not* want to play Galatasaray, who would be the only one that would be seeded against us. So if I have a choice, I'd take the unseeded Turks over the seeded ones...

Speaking of K19s, this came up today as a recommended video. Thought it would be appropriate to bring this up considering the kids who were playing here, also showing up today. Goals by Tsiggaras and Tzolis (x2), and that Koutsias (only fifteen years old!) looks pretty involved. Special appearance by their captain Michailidis. Weird that this was only four months ago. I really hope we form a backbone out of our youth squads, though I will remain skeptical until I see it.

It's embarrassing how easily I forget this guy's name. He really does a great job. So looking at that, we've got a lot of potential terrible matchups for Q3. Assuming no unseeded teams win in Q3. I just know we're going to get Benfica. Re PaokCT's Sivasspor fixtures - they play Kasimpasa (isn't that where Campos went?), Yeni Malatyaspor, Fenerbahce, Genclerbirligi, and Goztepe. Most of those are definitely doable. But keep in mind Galatasaray doesn't play any *good* teams either, from what I can see. I still think they're more likely to get a better record out of their final games, sadly.

Okay so I was chatting with my quote-friendly friend @PaokCT and figured I'd post this here. I know it's very early and I may be jinxing the team, but I like this stuff so I'm gonna do it. For CL qualifying next season, we would get into the second round (assuming of course we end the SL in second place, of course). This round has six second-place teams, which this season will be from Turkey, Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, and Croatia. Two of those teams are already known - Viktoria Plzen (34 coefficient points) and AZ Alkmaar (18.5 coefficient points). Turkey's #2 is Trabzonspor, who is banned from UEFA competitions - if results hold, that means Sivasspor will be get Turkey's QR2 slot. I don't know how likely this is as they're only two points up from Galatasaray (with one more game played), but let's assume they make it through - Sivasspor would just have Turkey's league bonus, which looks to be 5.72 next season (Galatasaray is 23.5). Austria's runner up is Rapid Wien (22), which has 32 points in the league. They have a game in hand and a narrow lead over LASK (14 points) and Wolfsberg (6.585), who both have 31 points in the league - so things can change there as well. In Croatia, Tudor's old team - Hajduk Split (7.5) - is in second place, with 54 points. They are ahead based on goal differential vs Lokomotiva (4.1). Neither of them can be seeded above us, so this race doesn't really matter, though I'd prefer the worse team to go through. PAOK has 21 points going into this next season. So if the current standings do not change, this is what we're looking at: Seeded: Viktoria Plzen (34) Rapid Wien (22) PAOK (21) Unseeded: AZ Alkmaar (18.5) Sivasspor (5.72) Hajduk (7.5) Worst case (and more likely): Viktoria Plzen (34) Galatasaray (23.5) Rapid Wien (22) Unseeded: PAOK (21) AZ Alkmaar (18.5) Hajduk (7.5) Best case: Viktoria Plzen (34) PAOK (21) AZ Alkmaar (18.5) Unseeded: LASK (14) Sivasspor (5.72) Lokomotiva (4.1) Right now, we need to hope Sivasspor remains ahead of Galatasaray and Besiktas, who would both be seeded ahead of us. In Austria, we need to hope Rapid Wien drops into third place - that would help us if Sivasspor falls, and would also provide us with an easier potential matchup against an unseeded team. Rapid going to the EL would also mean we could avoid AZ, which would be huge.

Well let's just say we hopefully only get away games, because we always seem to lose at home.

Do we have a complete list of everyone who will be back from loan, including the K21s we might be seeing? I'm assuming we have a few that will be aging out of the youth system that we haven't seen yet.

Overall not a bad game. Aris did not play with their usual gusto against us, but it was relatively open and our guys finally looked like they wanted to play together. Limnios was pretty poor, as was Biseswar (apart from that assist). Stoch was MotM for me. I'll be adding my vote when the site updates.

Is this really Tsiggaras' debut? I could have sworn he played a while ago??

Red for Aris after a pretty blatant takedown on Akpom (who got away so nicely!)

My stream cut out; here's another: http://www.sports-stream.net/ch.php?id=1

Soares in for Tzolis. Insanity.

Rodrigo has also been played as a winger in most matches which is bizarre - I agree that he should be put in for Matos

That's fine, I'm tired of seeing what you do to those goats

I just want you all to know that lightening just struck so close to my apartment that several car alarms outside went off. If I don't make it, I just want you all to know I love you (except for PaokCT).

I think Biseswar heard our convo, Athens4

Beautiful goal by SwiderskI! So smooth

I am, my little Connecticut Yankee ❤️

A little more strength behind that pass by Stoch just now and Tzolis might have made something out of it.

@Athens4 so is it a decline by Biseswar, how Ferreira is using him, or both?