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I honestly thought he'd be loaned out and that Glykos - if his good performances lasted the season - would be sold next summer. Guess they didn't agree.

Vellidis' contract has been terminated. This was destined to happen, we don't need three "starter"-level goalies...best of luck to him.

OFI's up 2-0 now, with about 20 minutes left. Was a real battle to get that second one in. Good news for us. -edit- game ended 2-1, Xanthi progresses. Questionable non-PK call in Xanthi's favor in the last ten or so minutes. But them's the breaks. Xanthi looks quite beatable to me.

OFI leading 1-0 at half time....time for a miracle

As it turns out? You literally just linked to a web site with stats that everyone else here has said are meaningless. Either way, it's a moot point here. Pelkas is going to be out at least a month, possibly as long as two.

Definitely a poor move, he's much better than that team. On the plus side, this will at least be some place where he gets regular playing time. I think I read that this deal is only through the end of the season, but can be extended to 2.5 years if the player agrees. I'm sure his agent will be working overtime to make that not happen.

Thomas Necid is Prijovic's replacement at Legia Warsaw (loan with an option to buy). Can't make this stuff up.

Korovesis has been loaned back to Giannina. Lamprou still not gone, but probably will be any time now.

I'll bet you $50 that Varela's running on fumes at this point! $100! If Chatziisaias gets no time at all this season, he ain't sticking around, I guarantee you. Ivic would be wise to put him in at least as a sub to close down easy games.

In other news, Henrique and Mistakidis will both be available for this game. Henrique apparently trained normally with the team and should slot in quickly. For Mistakidis, he will serve his suspension during our Feb 19th game vs Veria. Looks like Ivic wants to make sure he has at least some wingers available.

Live a little, blackhawk! Toss out some lineups!

I'm reading now that Pelkas is out for 4-8 weeks, unclear how long Campos is out. Hopefully Enrique will be able to slot in quickly, and that Biseswar won't go down as well. On the bright side, this is a good chance for Mistakidis to have a few more starts.

Probably a good thing. I was just watching the sideline camera the team posted for the final Panaitolikos match, and Varela was so exhausted that he had to lie down at the final whistle. And remember that last, short run he did in the closing minutes of the game? So gassed that he nearly took a knee. He really needs the extra few days off. For fun, here's an off-the-wall lineup made up mostly of B-squad players. I think I'd still take them to win against Larissa. --Brkic-- --Kitsiou--Chatziisaias--Malezas--Deligiannidis-- --Kace--Charisis-- --Lamprou--Biseswar--Korovesis-- --Koulouris--

He's got the #11, too Poor Lamprou - this would be twice in two weeks.

Honestly, it should be any minute now. He wouldn't be posting this otherwise:

Pelkas is out for three weeks. It could have been much, much worse. I've seen no word on Campos, but I bet he'll be available for the next game.

Well Galatasaray being in debt is not surprising to me ;) Do you remember what Partizan's amount owed was? These are pretty significant sums. I'd also imagine Inter's new owners would be able to do something about that debt.

Novasports highlights: http://inpaok.novasports.gr/VideoId/40446/

I have a feeling we'll be seeing our cup team play this one. Going to need some rotation with so many players out due to cards (Shakhov, Klaus, Mistakidis) and or injury (Pelkas, Campos?), and with our playing against Asteras on the 5th, we're going to need to save some player's legs (Matos, Leovac, Biseswar?). Hopefully things shake out positively for both Pelkas and Campos. Wouldn't be too surprised if this is the game where we see Matos play as a winger. --Glykos-- --Kitsiou--Varela--Malezas--Leovac-- --Canas--Cimirot-- --Campos--Biseswar--Deligiannidis-- --Koulouris--

Wouldn't be SUCH a miracle - 2-0 is doable at home, although highly unlikely. I'll pass out the komboloi while we wait for Tuesday's result.

Shows that the team has balls, at least. On to Larissa for our last makeup game. A win vs them will bring us into second place.

Atromitos and Giannina have played a 1:1 draw today. Only one team close to our points total (Platanias) won today, vs Kerkyra.

Very solid result, as g4 says, we could have been at least four up on them. Great changes by Ivic, great performance by the rest of the team against a parked bus. Only negative here, really, is Pelkas' injury. We still have depth there for now (Biseswar, Mistakidis), but I hope this doesn't lead to our having to play Shakhov as an ACM deep in the playoffs. And fortunately we'll have two LWs coming in very soon.

Three minutes of stoppage time, plenty of time to go up 2-0

Seriously, playing with ten men and we're absolutely schooling them.