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Our players here at PAOK score goals, the best goals, let me tell you. Ask anybody, these players are fantastic. We play in the great, big, wonderful Toumba Stadium, everybody knows it, and we built that stadium like nobody can build a stadium. We got the Chinese to pay for it. PAOK, the greatest team, believe me.

well, if rodriguez can't go... you know your boy is ready and waiting ;) I like the modified lineup with the inclusion of pereyra. he should have a more advanced #10 role in that 4-3-3. even if campos is actually our #10.

i think ivic knows what needs to be done for the return leg. this guy was there for us in big games not too long ago. he will push the right buttons and we will come out full force in toumba, fans included. hopefully without platini putting us in the dog house again.

great reflex save by glykos!

great finish, not easy, SO PUMPED!

my pappoudes always used that word instead of jeans for some reason.

a man loves what it means to be human, of which justice is a part. a man can dream that justice be done.

seriously. a slightly more clinical opponent and we may well have lost, i think.

he made it look so easy there. great goal by mak.

glad to see glykos is still awake

he even called us paidia. what community.

commentator said it looked like we were trying to lure panionios upfield and score on the counter, which looked accurate. they are chasing now and it sounds like a plan for the second half. 0-1 is good for HT and justified.

he should have done better there. at least we do look motivated.

no laola today? totally unmotivated to study but I don't want to waste time with shitty streams that will just cut out either...

confident finish from rodrigues. as it should have been. i think my little cousin could have put that one away. we played some actual football to set that one up, much of the first ten minutes this looked like kickball instead.

so what, are all our games on laola now?

tzavellas with a classic free kick! this guy!

in this thread we can talk about the great greek international alexandros tziolis who played a pivotal role in the ethniki's 4-3 win over hungary to say nothing of the performances of kitsiou, pelkas, and our academy product stafylidis in that match

i would literally be there every weekend, school be damned. gyro city is fantastic and authentic imo, but i'm always down to try a new place. what part of greece is this guy from?

^this did smell like exactly what you were talking about. but you didn't tell us the gyradiko was going to have bougatsa too...! is malamatina going to be on the regular drink menu?

impossible... i've GOT to get down there now. just after telling my theio how bad it can be living in a city without bougatsa. in general their menu looks a lot like gyro city (if the photos in the article mean anything) but the addition of bougatsa is beyond important. out of my way, but hopefully worth the trip early one saturday morning.

no love in this thread for salpi at all huh... well, he's not really active right now, would get beat out in the all-time XI by nikolaidis and antoniadis, and probably by georgiadis on the wing. but he'd probably at least make the bench.

he was always quite good for croatia but he's 36. he's not like he used to be. what's the matter with glykos?

glad to see you checking in after the match mate. the chants didn't stop in the whole match, we could hear them. the atmosphere must have been something, despite the loss. i'm just glad no one was throwing stuff on the field or doing anything else too stupid. we could see flares and hear loud booms throughout the match as well.

i have to try and keep some perspective when i consider the result of this match. we lost 0-2. yeah, no one likes losing. but we played the favourites to win the league and we went into this year fully knowing that it's a rebuilding year. (which, they never seem to end, but that's another story.) and despite that it's a rebuilding year and we were up against oly, in my book, despite the bad result, we actually outplayed them. outpossessed them, outshot them, outchanced them, had them penned in their own half for the vast majority of the second half. unlucky not to score multiple goals. all of that despite that half the team are pretty new, young players. it just gives me a lot of optimism for this team if we can keep these kids together for another 3-4 years and really build something. something that could eventually be good enough to win the league outright. of course, oly know how to win games, and roberto is especially gifted in stealing oly games, and they found a way to win today. but if this team can bring the passion they brought today a few years from now after they've had a chance to play and grow into a team together, teams like oly will be hard-pressed to find a way to win again.