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Oliveira in for Akpom.

At this point I would even take 1:0 final score.

0:0 halftime. Lucky not to be down 0:1. We improved at the end of the half. We'll need to pick things up to score.

Two goals scored by Olympiakos already, but thankfully both ruled offside. The second one very close.

Starting lineup:

Vieirinha, El Kaddouri and Michailidis are the only players not available for tomorrow's game. Jaba is back in the squad and rumors are that he might even start. My lineup for the game: ------------ Paschalakis ------------ Lyratzis - Ingason - Crespo - Sidcley ----- Kurtic ----------- Augusto ---- Zivkovic ------ Biseswar ------ Jaba -------------- Akpom ---------------

Don't believe the lies. They have been promising the new Toumba building permits for two years now. Why should it be any different now.

Superleague and EPO finally came up with the rest of the SL and Greek Cup schedules. PAOK will play 9 games (including the Cup final if we qualify) in 30 days. This means that for a month we will have a PAOK game every 3 days on average. Here is the rest of our schedule: 21.04.2022, 19:30 EEST: PAOK - Olympiakos (Greek Cup, Semifinal Leg 1) 27.04.2022, 20:00 EEST: Olympiakos - PAOK (Greek Cup, Semifinal Leg 2) 01.05.2022, 21:00 EEST: PAOK - AEK (Superleague 1, Playoff Round 6) 04.05.2022, 19:00 EEST: PAOK - Olympiakos (Superleague 1, Playoff Round 4) 08.05.2022, 18:00 EEST: PAS Giannina - PAOK (Superleague 1, Playoff Round 7) 11.05.2022, 18:30 EEST: PAOK - Aris (Superleague 1, Playoff Round8) 14.05.2022, 20:00 EEST: Olympiakos - PAOK (Superleague 1, Playoff Round 9) 17.05.2022, 20:00 EEST: PAOK - Panathinaikos (Superleague 1, Playoff Round 10) 21.05.2022, TBA: Greek Cup Final

All Italian crew for this game. Also it looks like Vierinha will miss the game.

The travel ban is a two year suspended sentence.

No just the Greek site that is always reporting on the fixed games in Greece and nothing ever come out of it. probably same situation.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Olympiakos Piraeus COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Semifinal – Leg 1 DATE: 21-April-2022 TIME: 19:00 EEST (16:00 UTC, 11:00 CDT, 02:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (28,708) REFEREES: Daniele Chiffi - Davide Imperiale, Alesio Berti (Italy) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport 1 (Greece), Cytavision Sports (Cyprus), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) PAOK – Olympiakos Greek Cup history: 2020-2021: FINAL: PAOK – Olympiakos 2:1 (Vieirinha – p, Krmencik) - Attendance: no fans (OAKA Stadium) – CUP WINNER 2019-2020: SEMIFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: no fans 2019-2020: SEMIFINAL-L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:2 (Pelkas 2, Misic) - Attendance: no fans 2013-2014: SEMIFINAL-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 17,789 (The “gavroi on the bench” game, with a 5 kilos of gavroi being placed on Olympaikos bench prior to the game by a fan, resulting in delay of game, and severe punishment by EPO) 2013-2014: SEMIFINAL-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 32,000 2010-2011: QUARTERFINAL-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: no fans (the famous game played behind closed doors with Marinakis throwing whiskey bottles at people from the VIP suite and the police helicopters hovering over Toumba and Thessaloniki) 2010-2011: QUARTERFINAL-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:1 (Vieirinha) - Attendance: 28,404 2008-2009: QUARTERFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 (aet) - Attendance: 23,983 2008-2009: QUARTERFINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Concensao) - Attendance: 21,043 2002-2003: QUARTERFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:2 (Georgiadis, Okkas) - Attendance: 11,466 (Rizoupolis Stadium, Athens) 2002-2003: QUARTERFINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:1 (Georgiadis, Markos, Okkas) - Attendance: 17,647 2000-2001: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:4 (Egkomitis, Borbokis, Georgiadis, Nalitzis) - Attendance: 13,300 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) – CUP WINNER 1999-2000: Round of 16: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Frousos) - Attendance: 17,317 (Single leg tie) (OAKA Stadium, Athens) 1996-1997: Round of 16-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Tasiopoulos) - Attendance: 4,503 1996-1997: Round of 16-L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:2 (Zouboulis) - Attendance: 20,498 1991-1992: FINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 29381 1991-1992: FINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: 25,744 1990-1991: Round of 32-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:0 (Karageorgiou, Borbokis, H. Hassan) - Attendance: 33,411 1990-1991: Round of 32-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 17,789 1989-1990: Round of 16-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:0 (5:3 pen) - Attendance: 22,090 1989-1990: Round of 16–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 27,217 1985-1986: Round 2: Olympiakos - PAOK 0:0 (4:3 pen) - Attendance: 25,955 (Single leg tie) (OAKA Stadium, Athens) 1980-1981: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 3:1 (Damanakis) - Attendance: 30,512 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) 1979-1980: Round of 32: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:2 (Orfanos, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 38,150 (Single leg tie) 1978-1979: Round of 16: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:2 (6:5 pen) (Guerino, Kermanidis) - Attendance: 38,846 (Single leg tie) 1975-1976: SEMIFINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:1 (6:5 pen) (Guerino) - Attendance: 38,846 (Single leg tie) 1974-1975: SEMIFINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 4:0 - Attendance: ? (Single leg tie) 1973-1974: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:2 (3:4 pen) (Paridis, Aslanidis) - Attendance: 26,402 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) – CUP WINNER 1972-1973: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:0 - Attendance: 40,070 (Karaiskaki Stadium, Piraeus) 1970-1971: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 3:1 (Sarafis) - Attendance: 38,000 (Karaiskaki Stadium, Piraeus) 1950-1951: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 4:0 - Attendance: ? (Leoforos Alexandras, Athens) GAMES: 31 WINS: 11 TIES: 6 LOSSES: 14 All home games played at Toumba Stadium. All away games played at Karaiskaki Stadium unless otherwise noted. PAOK never played a single leg tie at home against Olympiakos. All Greek Cup Finals against Olympiakos were played either in Athens or Piraeus.

Reports are that Payet, the player that scored the Marseille winning goal at Toumba has been caught doping 4 days before the game. Not sure if any punishment is possible.

The only bright spot today was Oliveira getting playing time.

Fourth straight loss for the team. Hopefully this will end on Thursday.

We need to avoid red cards to our players ahead of the cup game on Thursday.

I have a feeling we will have serious defensive problems.

2021-2022 European Season Recap The 2021-2022 turned out to be PAOK's most successful European campaign in the teams history. We managed to reach the quarterfinal of a European competition, which equals our accomplishment in the 1973-1974 season (quartefinals of Cup Winners Cup). This time it took us 16 games to do it, while in 1973-1974 we only needed 4 games before we faced AC Milan in the quartefinals. This season in the Europe Conference League we played 16 games starting in the Qualifying Round 3. We won 8 games, tied 3 and lost 5. Our scorers in the competition were: 4 - Zivkovic 2 - Schwab 2 - El Kaddouri 1 - Oliveira, Akpom, Biseswar, Mitrita, Murg, Sidcley, Vieirinha and one own goal PAOK's Overall European Statisctics SEASONS PLAYED: 40 (out of 67) GAMES PLAYED: 216 GAMES WON: 80 GAMES TIED: 60 GAMES LOST: 76 GOALS FOR: 288 GOALS AGAINST: 274 We played in all 7 European competitions . The statistics are as follows: CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEASONS PLAYED: 8 GAMES PLAYED: 22 GAMES WON: 5 GAMES TIED: 8 GAMES LOST: 9 GOALS FOR: 31 GOALS AGAINST: 37 CHAMPIONS CUP SEASONS PLAYED: 2 GAMES PLAYED: 6 GAMES WON: 1 GAMES TIED: 1 GAMES LOST: 4 GOALS FOR: 5 GOALS AGAINST: 12 CUP WINNERS CUP SEASONS PLAYED: 6 GAMES PLAYED: 18 GAMES WON: 8 GAMES TIED: 5 GAMES LOST: 5 GOALS FOR: 24 GOALS AGAINST: 23 FAIRS CUP SEASONS PLAYED: 3 GAMES PLAYED: 6 GAMES WON: 2 GAMES TIED: 0 GAMES LOST: 4 GOALS FOR: 5 GOALS AGAINST: 17 UEFA CUP SEASONS PLAYED: 15 GAMES PLAYED: 62 GAMES WON: 22 GAMES TIED: 17 GAMES LOST: 23 GOALS FOR: 90 GOALS AGAINST: 86 EUROPA LEAGUE SEASONS PLAYED: 11 GAMES PLAYED: 86 GAMES WON: 34 GAMES TIED: 27 GAMES LOST: 25 GOALS FOR: 114 GOALS AGAINST: 85 EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE SEASONS PLAYED: 1 GAMES PLAYED: 16 GAMES WON: 8 GAMES TIED: 3 GAMES LOST: 5 GOALS FOR: 20 GOALS AGAINST: 13 TOP SCORERS 20 - Athanasiadis 14 - Salpiggidis 11 - Mak 9 - Giasoumis 9 - Vieirinha 8 - Sarafis 8 - Pelkas 8 - Prijovic 7 - Zivkovic 6 - Frantzeskos 5 - Dimopoulos C. 5 - Maragos 5 - Konstantinidis P. 5 - Tzolis In bold players that are still active.

2021 - 2022 Season: Round 32 (16.04.2022, 14:45 EEST - Dimotiko Stadio Neapolis, Trikala) AO Trikala - PAOK Thessaloniki 'B' TV: no coverage

I don't expect major overhaul of the roster for next season. I think it will be 3 new starters max. The main thing will be to phase out the old guard (Biseswar, Vieirinha, Crespo, Paschalakis, El Kaddouri, etc.) either by not renewing them or make them accept a lesser role on the team.

You mean 2023/2024 Next season (2022-2023) we still only get four European tickets: Champion CL Q2, Cup Winner, N2 & N3 - ECL Q2

Good thing Slavia and Glimpt lost so we get to keep 15th place in coefficient standings.

We did not have luck on our side today. Not a single bounce going our way. We had chances, but in the end if you don't score you don't win. Major rotation against Aris on Sunday, and get ready for Olympiakos on Thursday.

Almost second own goal by Ingason.

We had our chances. We needed to capitalize on at least one. It will be tough in 2nd half. Hopefully we can score in second half. Their defense is nothing special. If we can put pressure on them we have a chance. I would throw in Mitrita in second half.