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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.

Rumors that we're still looking for another striker...

You're right, sorry - it was on eon but they then redirected me to nettvplus.gr to log in to my actual account. I just went back there now and there's a splash page saying it's not offered anymore. Sorry bub!

Oh nice, in the 86th minute. I stopped paying attention maybe ten minutes before that, assuming they would hold on. Excellent news!

Camara jogged off so I'm assuming this is not a serious injury. @Dutch Eagle I believe you have to sign up through https://int.eon.tv/

Buffsports.io is working for me Atromitos very passive, I don't think I've seen them play this scared vs us before They're now down to ten men, just before halftime

Yeah I'm a moron. All these eye-talians look alike to me

Vogliacco came yesterday and should be announced soon. New rumor, however, is that we also want this guy on loan. Surely this means Lovren is getting the boot? This is kind of an overabundance of CBs, if this is true. https://www.transfermarkt.us/alessandro-bianco/profil/spieler/602124

That's half the fun. Don't trick yourself into thinking we don't belong in this competition - they earned it, emphatically (and have the history to support that)

Looks like Vogliacco (and his team) have agreed to some terms with us - apparently a loan with buy option, expected to come on Saturday. I am hopeful about this one. https://inpaok.com/873660/ekleise-to-deal-paok-voliako/ https://inpaok.com/873664/to-savvato-sti-thessaloniki-o-voliako/ We also have some recently departing youth players: https://inpaok.com/873148/apo-ton-paok-stin-triti-katigoria-tis-ispanias/?dicbo=v2-37KTdMS (third division) https://inpaok.com/873641/apo-ton-paok-stin-torino-o-mokris/ (Torino) https://inpaok.com/872305/metagrafi-me-aroma-paok-gia-kabaniako/ (domestic) Also, I am wondering if Zafeiris will come by end of summer after all. Their fans seem pissed at him and they will have plenty of money with which to replace him...

Looks like Balde is about to be officially announced as our player until 2028. I thought this whole situation was very strange, as his loan should have been over two months ago... https://inpaok.com/873619/ektakto-ananeose-ton-balnte-o-paok/