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You are a god!

Another miss, Koulouris this time

Seems like Campos just missed. The team's twitter account has deleted the lineup they posted earlier, and I see pics of Koulouris playing...guess the lineup changed. Didn't hear any mentions on the radio, although I had to step away for a few minutes...

WHO TOLD YOU THIS?! Still looking for links, share 'em if you've got 'em

Biseswar starting, lineup otherwise unchanged

Remember at the end of last season, when Ivic said he thought he knew why players were getting hurt so often, and he'd fix that? I guess he's fixed that. http://inpaok.com/330621

Yeah...that's where the speed comments I was referring to come from.

Gives them what they want, doesn't it? Ugh.

I'm certain Malezas will play. I would rather not see Crespo playing fullback either; we have Giannoulis for a reason, and he needs to get minutes.

^ Rodrigues also was considered good enough to play in Spain not that long ago. He's at a good age and clearly has been impressing. Let's also remember that Mak also can't hit the broad side of a barn. I wouldn't write Rodrigues off, especially since he's shown such huge improvement this season (just like Mak did last year).

Back to Turkey? http://www.league-news.gr/2016/12/blog-post_44.html

Here are the players who will be available to Ivic: Γλύκος, Μπρκιτς, Κρέσπο, Βαρέλα, Μαλεζάς, Κίτσιου, Μάτος, Λέοβατς, Τσίμιροτ, Κάνιας, Σάκχοφ, Πέλκας, Μπίσεσβαρ, Μυστακίδης, Ροντρίγκες, Τζάλμα, Αθανασιάδης, Κουλούρης No Thiam or Pereyra. I don't think the lineup is going to change from the last match.

"Fair distribution." Wow.

There's been an explosion at Besiktas' stadium. Happened during this broadcast. Twenty injured so far.

Very positive sounding. I'm surprised he seems to want to stay ;)

They didn't mention names, but lookit those other teams also scouting... http://inpaok.com/330579

Olympiakos seems to have sacked Bento. I can only hope this leads to mass confusion and anarchy in their side.

There are no restrictions on who you might be drawn against from the round of 16 onwards.

If Korovesis is to be loaned (which would be a great move), then even better (and in that case, obviously don't play him). Pelkas could use more game time, after all.

I feel this game needs to be used to shake the rust off of some of our dudes, and not throw in only completely fringe players. --Brkic-- --Kitsiou--Varela--Malezas--Giannoulis-- --Charisis--Shakhov-- --Mistakidis--Biseswar--Korovesis-- --Klaus-- Klaus, Mistakidis, Shakhov, Charisis are all way too shaky for my liking. Which could make using them all together into a recipe for disaster. But they *should* have what it takes to beat this team.

It's all I could see, both during the game and while watching the video.

Weird, I thought I had pulled the updated one. D'oh.

Let's see if this formatting goes through: # country 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 ranking teams 1 Spain 20.857 17.714 23.000 20.214 23.928 105.713 7 2 Germany 15.250 17.928 14.714 15.857 16.428 80.177 7 3 England 15.250 16.428 16.785 13.571 14.250 76.284 8 4 Italy 11.357 14.416 14.166 19.000 11.500 70.439 6 5 Portugal 11.833 11.750 9.916 9.083 10.500 53.082 6 6 France 10.500 11.750 8.500 10.916 11.083 52.749 6 7 Russia 9.750 9.750 10.416 9.666 11.500 51.082 5 8 Ukraine 7.750 9.500 7.833 10.000 9.800 44.883 5 9 Belgium 10.100 6.500 6.400 9.600 7.400 40.000 5 10 Netherlands 13.600 4.214 5.916 6.083 5.750 35.563 6 11 Turkey 5.100 10.200 6.700 6.000 6.600 34.600 5 12 Switzerland 6.000 8.375 7.200 6.900 5.300 33.775 5 13 Czech Republic 5.250 8.500 8.000 3.875 7.300 32.925 5 14 Greece 7.600 4.400 6.100 6.200 5.400 29.700 5 15 Romania 4.333 6.800 6.875 5.125 2.250 25.383 4 16 Austria 7.125 2.250 7.800 4.125 3.800 25.100 5 17 Croatia 3.750 4.375 4.375 6.875 4.500 23.875 4 18 Poland 6.625 2.500 3.125 4.750 5.500 22.500 4 19 Cyprus 9.125 4.000 2.750 3.300 3.000 22.175 4 20 Belarus 3.125 4.500 1.750 5.500 5.125 20.000 4 21 Sweden 2.900 5.125 3.200 3.900 4.750 19.875 4 22 Norway 2.300 4.900 2.600 2.200 7.250 19.250 4 23 Israel 6.000 3.250 5.750 1.375 2.250 18.625 4 24 Denmark 3.100 3.300 3.800 2.900 5.500 18.600 4 25 Scotland 2.750 4.300 3.250 4.000 3.000 17.300 4 26 Azerbaijan 1.375 3.000 2.500 3.625 4.375 14.875 4 27 Serbia 2.125 3.000 2.500 2.750 4.250 14.625 4 28 Kazakhstan 1.625 1.375 3.125 3.375 4.625 14.125 4 29 Bulgaria 1.500 0.750 5.625 4.250 1.000 13.125 4 30 Slovenia 2.250 3.250 2.625 4.000 1.000 13.125 4 31 Slovakia 2.375 1.500 1.625 2.750 3.750 12.000 4 32 Liechtenstein 2.000 0.000 1.000 2.500 5.000 10.500 1 33 Hungary 2.250 3.000 0.875 2.125 1.625 9.875 4 34 Moldova 0.500 2.250 3.375 1.750 1.250 9.125 4 35 Iceland 1.375 1.250 2.500 2.500 1.125 8.750 4 36 Georgia 2.875 1.500 1.875 1.250 0.625 8.125 4 37 Finland 1.500 2.000 0.500 2.400 1.000 7.400 4 38 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1.125 1.250 1.500 1.750 1.500 7.125 4 39 Albania 0.875 0.750 2.000 0.875 2.125 6.625 4 40 Macedonia 1.625 1.250 0.500 1.125 1.500 6.000 4 41 Ireland 1.500 1.000 0.250 2.000 0.700 5.450 5 42 Latvia 0.625 1.250 1.625 0.250 1.625 5.375 4 43 Luxembourg 1.125 1.375 1.500 0.500 0.750 5.250 4 44 Montenegro 0.500 1.375 1.250 0.750 1.000 4.875 4 45 Lithuania 1.000 1.125 1.250 0.500 0.750 4.625 4 46 Northern Ireland 0.500 1.000 0.875 1.375 0.750 4.500 4 47 Estonia 0.375 0.375 1.000 1.500 1.000 4.250 4 48 Armenia 0.125 0.875 1.125 0.375 1.625 4.125 4 49 Faroe Islands 0.500 0.500 0.875 1.375 0.375 3.625 4 50 Malta 0.833 0.875 0.875 0.125 0.875 3.583 4 51 Wales 0.625 0.500 0.750 0.125 1.500 3.500 4 52 Gibraltar 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.250 0.750 1.000 2 53 Andorra 0.000 0.000 0.333 0.500 0.166 0.999 3 54 San Marino 0.000 0.000 0.333 0.000 0.000 0.333 3 I doubt we'll overcome the Czechs by the end of this season (unless both of our teams make it through to the round of 16 - unlikely). Still, gained a few points on Romania.

I like the idea of Savvidis doing random drive-by huggings: http://www.sdna.gr/podosfairo/europa-league/article/273070/i-agkalia-toy-ivan-savvidi-ston-pelka-vid Interview? What interview?

I like that they call him a STAR in that article, but I'm kind of left scratching my head over the speed comments. Sokratis is pretty quick, especially for a big dude.