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Was thinking about this earlier. So if we lose and PAO wins: Oly 72 PAO 59 PAOK 55 AEK 53 If we lose and PAO draws: Oly 72 PAO 57 PAOK 55 AEK 54 And if we lose and AEK wins: Oly 72 PAO 56 AEK 56 PAOK 55 Basically, the result to avoid is two PAO wins, which is out of our hands at this point. An AEK win isn't ideal (we want a draw in that game), but it leaves 2nd place wide open. Below are the possible outcomes. The moral of the story is that we could easily finish anywhere from 2nd to 4th. Getting even a point from Olympiakos will help a lot. PAO 62, 60, 59, 58, 57, 56 <-- W+W, W+D, W+L, D+D L+D, L+L, respectively PAOK 61, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55 <-- W+W, W+D, W+L, D+D, L+D, L+L, respectively AEK 59, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53 <-- W+W, W+D, W+L, D+D, L+D, L+L, respectively

ZIDANE'S WAS A LOVE TAP!

Very perceptive! https://inpaok.com/861830/o-taison-pire-tin-fanela-tou-vieirinia-video/

So now that we've seen it twice, is the Meite-Camara midfield everything we were hoping for?

Yeah he couldn't get the actual shot off. We're doing "it" again - deciding to absorb pressure for the last 8 minutes of the game. This is a losing formula.

CHALOV OH MY GOD

2-0 for the Olympiakos game -edit- CT sux

Schwab and Chalov coming on for Taison and Thomas

Camara's goal was smooooooth

Buddy I still think we're getting 2nd place!

Wow that is a beautiful Michailidis goal

Lotta empty seats in the stands

Our three forwards are 100! -edit- can't math good

Good scoring record, but will note that 9 of his 28 goals were in three games, and another 4 were in this most recent one. They are also all against teams that are bottom of the barrel in his league. Not saying some people are wrong in suggesting we try to get him back - but he's racking up some easy goals against bad opposition. I wouldn't hate him replacing Brandon though (and Koulouris' poacher style might work well with Chalov's own build-up style).

Pena back to Sweden? I have some doubts, not because he seems unhappy - but because the Swedish tax system makes a second contract look very painful for him, financially. https://inpaok.com/861472/o-penia-skeftetai-tin-epistrofi-sti-malme/

And now an about-face: https://inpaok.com/861492/o-loutseskou-epelexe-na-synechisei-stin-touba/ Lots of time for things to change, of course.

Despodov apparently went to Bulgaria to get a shot for his toe. I wonder what's going on there.

Have had this in my watch later playlist for a while, just got around to watching it. Kind of interesting. But I think the guy who made it is vastly overstating how most football was played - very few teams have Messis, after all. Good points on the wingers and fullbacks, though.

Yeah, but that means PaokCT has to not be defeatist for 30 seconds, which is an impossible task

You're right. That is a VERY high price to buy the kid; he would have had to score like 40 goals to get us to jump on him. I also doubt Lucescu even watches those games; he probably just begrudgingly accepts a handful of B team players to fill out the headcount in the summer training camp and once in a while through the season.

I had forgotten about this guy and his Watford connection, even though I do remember seeing Hurtado in some pictures recently. https://inpaok.com/861135/i-apofasi-gia-ton-ourtado/ 11 goals and two assists in 19 games is pretty badass. His more detailed stats are before - seven of those goals were scored before year-end, and two of them were in the last game. So I guess he did drop off. Three million to buy him is kind of a lot (and I won't comment on the behavioral issue the article claims). Oh well, at least the team avoided relegation. https://www.transfermarkt.com/jorge-hurtado/leistungsdaten/spieler/911946

You could say that about the men's team too haha

Finally found this thread. So after the rumors of Al-Hilal, this pops up: https://inpaok.com/860873/blekoun-loutseskou-me-tin-ethniki-irak/ He's been...very outspoken in his disdain for national team jobs, so I very much doubt this one in particular.

A little bit more about the possible 9 point deduction noted previously. Not super relevant for us either way now, but we are playing them in the next few days. https://inpaok.com/860811/afairesi-9-vathmon-apo-ton-diagora/

This made me chuckle, in light of today's news on the suspensions for Olympiakos and AEK: https://inpaok.com/860509/vasilopoulos-fantazomai-pos-tha-klithei-o-loutseskou-gia-ta-epeisodia-sto-olybiakos-aek-vid/