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Nasberg is in Thessaloniki and will be officially announced any minute.

Not sure if Lucescu is committed to the rebuilding process. I have a feeling that he would have preferred seasoned (and much more expensive) players. However the decision was made by Savvidis to make the team self-sufficient and that's why he hired Boto. I have a feeling that in the end Lucescu will leave the team and Boto will bring in a coach to run the rebuilding process.

Augusto, Vierinha and Kurtic were fined by the team for the stupid cards they received in the game.

10 men and 18 women have secured participation in the European Championships. There will be additions of athletes to the relay teams. Here is the list as of today: MEN 200 m: Panagiotis Trivyzas (Panathinaikos Athens ) – (PB: 20.58 - SB: 20.70) High Jump: Antonis Merlos (PAOK Thessaloniki) – (PB: 2.23m - SB: 2.22m) Pole Vault: Emmanouil Karalis (Olympiakos Piraeus) – (PB: 5.80m - SB: 5.61m) Long Jump: Miltos Tentoglou (GS Kifisia) – (PB: 8.60m – SB: 8.36m) Triple Jump: Dimitris Tsiamis (Olympiakos Piraeus) – (PB: 17.55m – 16.82m) Triple Jump: Andreas Pantazis (AO Megara) – (PB: 16.86m – 16.49m) Triple Jump: Nikos Andrikopoulos (AE MEsogeion Ameinias) – (PB: 16.73m – 16.29m) Hammer Throw: Christos Frantzeskakis (GS Eleftherios Venizelos) – (PB: 78.15m – PB: 78.15m) Hammer Throw: Michalis Anastasakis (GS Eleftherios Venizelos) – (PB: 77.72m – SB: 77.36m) 35 km Walk: Alexandros Papamichail (AO Mykonos) – (PB: 2:34:48.0 - SB: 2:34:48.0) 4x100 m Relay: Trivyzas, -, -, - (PB: 38.67 – SB: 39.10) WOMEN 200 m: Rafaela Spanoudaki (GS Ilioupolis) – (PB: 23.11 - SB: 23.24) 200 m: Artemis Anastasiou (Panathinaikos Athens) – (PB: 23.31 - SB: 23.31) 400 m: Eirini Vasiliou (AE MEsogeion Ameinias) – (PB: 51.75 - SB: 52.31) 100 m Hurdles: Anaida Karagianni (AEK Athens) – (PB: 13.15 - SB: 13.15) 100 m Hurdles: Elisabet Perisidou (GS Kifisia) – (PB: 12.93 - SB: 13.17) 400 m Hurdles: Dimitra Gnafaki (Panathinaikso Athens) – (PB: 56.55 - SB: 56.55) High Jump: Tatiana Gousin (GS Kifisia) – (PB: 1.91m - SB: 1.90m) Pole Vault: Katerina Stefanidi (AO Filothei) – (PB: 4.91m - SB: 4.70m) Pole Vault: Eleni Klaudia Polak (AO Megara) – (PB: 4.70m - SB: 4.50m) Long Jump: Vasiliki Chaitidou (PAOK Thessaloniki) – (PB: 6.49m - SB: 6.49m) Triple Jump: Spyridoula Karydi (Panathinaikos Athens) – (PB: 14.19m - SB: 13.82m) Discus Throw: Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou (GS Ilioupolis) – (PB: 62.40m - SB: 62.40m) Hammer Throw: Stamatia Skarveli (GS Trikala) – (PB: 71.43m - SB: 71.43m ) Javelin Throw: Elina Tzengo (AS Kentavros Halkidiki) – (PB: 65.40m - SB: 65.40m) 20 km Walk: Christina Papadopoulou (Panellinios Athens) – (PB: 1:32:53.0 - SB: 1:37:20.0) 35 km Walk: Kyriaki Filtisakou (GS Eleftherios Venizelos) – (PB: 2:51:51.0 - SB: 2:51:51.0) 35 km Walk: Efi Kourkoutsaki (GAS Ilissos Athens) – (PB: 3:02:27.0 - SB: 3:02:27.0) 35 km Walk: Antigoni Drisbioti (ASS Alexandros Makedonias) – (PB: 2:41:58.0 – SB: 2:41:58.0) 4x100 m Relay: Spanoudaki, Anastasiou, -, - (PB: 43.07 – SB: 44.56) 4x400 m Relay: Vasiliou, -, -, - (PB: 3:20.20 – SB: 3:34.29)

It's expected that 32 - 35 Greek athletes will take part.

He probably lives in the same Mickey Mouse country that you do ...

Are we on the right path with the rebuild? And do PAOK fans have the patience for it?

Konstantelias, Biseswar and Vieirinha to come in.

Bad coaching bu Lucescu. Needs to have 2 forwards the way Levski is playing. Useless posession in the game. Around the 60th minute he will throw in Beseswar and Vieirinha.

Europe over for this season.

Starting lineup:

Well Narey is a left winger but he had him play on the right in the game.

Papamichail also broke the national record in 35K walk. Finished 27th.

Yeah and he only had one and a half day practice with the team. Konstantelias was the only other player that created something in the few minutes that he played. The other problem with Lucesco is that he is playing players out of their positions. Qiagliata is a "dekari" and he wastes him on the wing. Instead he plays Dantas as dekari, even though he is a midfielder.

Well we plucked him straight from the sunny beaches where he was vacationing. Desperation move after we lost our two starting forwards. He should have never started in the game after only practicing with the team for couple days. Same goes for Narey.

EPO agreed with Superleague2 and changed the number of team being promoted directly from Superleague 2 to Superleague 1. Marinakis and his 9 friends wanted only 1 team to be relegated and 1 to play a playoff game with second team from Superleague 2. Superleague 2 also asked for a third team from their league to go into playoffs with the 12th team from Superleague 1, but EPO turned that down.

Great showing by Drisbioti finishing in 4th place with a new Greek record of 2:41:58. Kourkoutsaki finished 27th with new personal record of 3:02:27 Papadopoulou disqualified.

And to make things worse, the Maltese Spartans defeated Velez 1:0 in Bosnia. We could be facing a much easier opponent in the next round.

VS MATCHUP: PAOK Thessaloniki FC – PFC Levski Sofia COMPETITION: Europa Conference League – QR2 – Leg 2 DATE: 28-July-2022 TIME: 20:30 EEST (17:30 UTC, 12:30 CDT, 03:30 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium Stadium (28,708) REFEREES: Cesar Soto Grodo – Iker De Fransisco, Carlos Alvarez Fernandez (Spain) TELEVISION: Novasports Prime (Greece, Cyprus) PAOK’s History against teams from Bulgaria in European Competitions 2022-2023: Levski Sofia – PAOK FC 2:0 – Att: 20,000 – Europa Conference League (Round 2 – Leg 1) 1983-1984: PAOK FC – Lokomotiv Plovdiv 3:1 – (44. Kostikos, 68. Skartados, 76. Dimopoulos C.) – Att: 35,000 – UEFA Cup (Round 1 – Leg 2) 1983-1984: Lokomotiv Plovdiv – PAOK FC 1:2 – (42. Dimopoulos C., 48. Georgopoulos) – Att: 18,000 – UEFA Cup (Round 1 – Leg 1) GAMES: 3 WINS: 2 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 1

Barring a miracle we bid goodbye to Europe this season. The team was not ready to face a team that was hungry to play in Europe. Instead we had players in the game that only had one or two practices with the team. Then we had veteran players that did not show up for the game. Add to it bad luck and the rest is history.

Zivkovic major disappointment today. We need to better control the game and at least score one goal. We absolutely can't let them score another one.

Only half a message. Vieirinha not able to play despite being announced as starter. Sastre to take his place.

Unfortunately the second. Only throwing 57.12m. Not enough to qualify. Hopefully it's a good experience for her.

I too believe it's a mistake. Not necessarily because of Vierinha (slow/old), but you are really sending a bad message to Sastre that might alienate the player without the season even starting yet.

Levski coach during his press conference mentioned that 5 starters have injury issues and only one of them has a slight chance of playing tomorrow. Hope it's true but sounds to me like a lot of BS. We'll find out tomorrow. As far as PAOK is concerned, after the Lyratzis injury Sastre would be the logical replacement, but why do I have the feeling that Lucescu will start Vierinha as RB. With that in mind here is my projection for a starting lineup: --------------- Kotarski ------------- Vieirinha - Ingason - Kargas - Soares ------- Augusto ------- Schwab ---- Zivkovic -----Dantas ----- Quagliata --------------- Koutsias -------------