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Tsiggaras is out and probably played his last game with PAOK. We'll need to be careful as Lamia has close ties with AEK and I would not be surprised if we get provoked and be carded ahead of the game with AEK on Sunday. We had hard time with Lamia earlier this season until we scored the first goal. For that reason I hope we score early and finish them as quick as possible. PAOK fans will be present as Lamia gave us some tickets.

Greece - Argentina 4:11 Greece - Ireland 3:12

VS MATCHUP: PAS Lamia 1964 - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Playoffs - Round 7 DATE: 24-April-2024 TIME: 17:00 EEST (14:00 GMT, 09:00 CDT, 00:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Lamia – DAK Lamias (Capacity: 5,500) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Prime Tel (Cyprus), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) PAS Lamia 1964 – PAOK history: Superleague 2023-2024: 0:2 (Taison, Baba) - Attendance: 1,639 2022-2023: 0:3 (Oliveira, Dantas, Zivkovic A.) - Attendance: 2,040 2021-2022: 0:2 (Jaba, Michailidis) - Attendance: 517 2020-2021: 0:2 (Tzolis, Vieirinha) - Attendance: no fans 2019-2020: 0:1 (Matos) - Attendance: 2,072 2018-2019: 0:1 (Varela) - Attendance: 1,648 2017-2018: 0:2 (Pelkas, Mauricio) - Attendance: 1,040 GAMES: 7 WINS: 7 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 0

Did not see the game, but it looks like we continued the same mediocre play we did in the two games with Brugge. We are still in the hunt, but if we continue the same way we will eventually be playing not to finish 4th instead for the title. The next two games will be very important. We need to beat Lamia and AEK at home and then after the Easter break prepare for the home games against Panathinaikos and Olympiakos.

Greek ice hockey national team will play their first game since 2013. IIHF has allowed Greece to take part in the developmental tournament that will take place this week in Bratislava, Slovakia. The schedule for the Greek national team is as follows: 21-April: Greece - Argentina 22-April: Greece - Ireland 23-April: Greece - Portugal 24-April: Greece - Colombia 25-April: Greece - Brazil 27-April: classification game

Konstantelias is not travelling to Piraeus since he still suffers from the virus infection that has plagued the team the last two weeks. Here is the squad for tomorrow's game:

Need to win this one or at a minimum not lose. Hopefully Olympiakos players are more tired than ours, since they played extra time. Let's also hope that some of our sick players feel better and did not spread the virus to others.

Lucescu should have not played players that were sick (Meite, Baba, Konstantelias, etc.). They could hardly run and at time they were just walking, specially Meite. The other thing we needed was luck. We did not have any. Both their goals were close to being offside (VAR needed) and our one chance to score with a penalty was also offside (again VAR decision). Basically nothing was going our way yesterday. Time to regroup and finish the season on a positive note.

First of all we need to finish in top 3 or Aris loses the cup final in order to be in Europe next season. Also there is dropping from higher competitions to lower competitions next season:

We are already set with 4 teams for next season (2024-2025). To have 5 teams in 2025-2026 Olympiakos need to beat Aston Villa twice (penalty shootouts don't count) and win the final either in regular time or extra time (again no penalty shootout)

Olympiakos is through to the semifinal of Conference league after eliminating Fenerbahce on penalty kicks. Good turn of events as they are going to be more tired on Sunday, and also will have to play two difficult games in between Superleague games.

Let's face it. We lost to a much better team. We did not have any answers to their superior play. Time to focus on our last goal this season and that is the championship.

I think Despodov was offside

Meite was our worst player today.

Our midfield is very slow getting back when we lose the ball and that exposes our defense. That's how the two goals happened. The European dream ends today. Let's hope to close the European campaign on a positive note. Give Vieirinha his last European game and throw in Konstantelias and Tzimas to get the European feel.