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Michailidis knee injury. Hopefully not serious.

Looks like major rotation tomorrow.

And also rest Biseswar, Vieirinha and Crespo.

Yes, Lyratzis was exceptional today. The national team is lacking a good right back. It will be a big mistake if Poyet does not call him up for the upcoming friendlies.

Nice win. One more goal would have been better. On the other hand missing Zivkovic and Kurtic in the return leg is huge.

5 minutes before kickoff and I don't see a lot of fans in the stands.

The roof at Leoforos colapsed 2 month ago and needs to be rebuild. Volos is ok, but Vikelidis, Toumba or AEL FC Arena would be better.

Our next game (PAOK - Pierikos) which was to be played this weekend was postponed due to COVID.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – PAS Giannina COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Playoffs - Round 1 DATE: 13-March-2022 TIME: 21:30 EET (19:30 UTC, 14:30 CDT, 06:30 AEDT next day) CITY / STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasport Prime (Greece & Cyprus), PAOK TV, Net TV Plus (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus) PAOK FC vs PAS Giannina History: Superleague 2021-2022: 0:1 - Attendance: 8,024 2020-2021: 2:1 (Swiderski, El Kaddouri) - Attendance: nf 2019-2020: PAS Giannina played in Superleague 2 2018-2019: 2:1 (Pelkas (p), Swiderski) - Attendance: 10,837 2017-2018: 1:0 (Prijovic) - Attendance: no fans 2016-2017: 0:1 - Attendance: 2,906 2015-2016: 3:1 (Athanasiadis, Charisis, Jairo) - Attendance: 7,390 2014-2015: 1:1 (Pereyra) - Attendance: 7,355 2013-2014: 2:1 (Stoch, Lucas) - Attendance: 11,494 2012-2013: 0:1 - Attendance: 8,088 (playoffs) 2012-2013: 2:0 (Georgiadis, Katsouranis) - Attendance: 9.758 2011-2012: 1:2 (Papazoglou) - Attendance: 9.587 2009-2010: 2:0 (Lino, Arabatzis) - Attendance: 13,239 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2002-2003: 1:0 (Georgiadis) - Attendance: 5,172 2000-2001: 2:3 (Kafes, Spasic) - Attendance: 7,065 1990-1991: 4:1 (Hassan, Borbokis, Karageorgiou, Magdi) - Attendance: 2,211 1986-1987: 3:1 (Papaioannou, Iordanidis, Baniotis) - Attendance: 8,155 1985-1986: 4:2 (Skartados 2, Mavromatis, Iordanidis)) - Attendance: 5,303 1983-1984: 0:0 - Attendance: 5,061 1982-1983: 4:1 (Dimopoulos 2, Kostikos, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 5,628 1981-1982: 2:1 (Guerino, Triantafyllidis) - Attendance: 9,553 1980-1981: 1:1 (Kostikos) - Attendance: 8,528 1979-1980: 2:1 (Kostikos, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 7,809 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 5:0 (Guerino 2, Kermanidis 2, Sarafis) - Attendance: ? 1977-1978: 1:0 (Orfanos) - Attendance: ? 1976-1977: 1:1 (Guerino) - Attendance: ? 1975-1976: 1:0 (Sarafis) - Attendance: ? 1974-1975: 4:1 (Paridis 2, Koudas, Apostolidis) - Attendance: ? GAMES: 27 WINS: 18 TIES: 4 LOSSES: 5

PAOK - PAS Giannina Sunday, March 13, 2022 - 21:30 EET

Not a bad draw. We start at home against the weakest opponent after a difficult European game.

Squad:

Seven players are at the yellow card limit. If they receive one on Thursday they will miss the return leg. The players in question are: Crespo, Kurtic, Lyratzis, Mitrita, Schwab, Zivkovic and Michailidis

Yet another proof that Greek Superleague is a joke. The PAS Giannina case is 5 years old only to be resurrected by the ambulance chaser Kougias.

I have no problem signing Biseswar to a 1-year contract extension, but with an understanding that he will utilized as bench player in the upcoming season. He is the only one of the old-timers I would consider keeping for the upcoming season. Crespo should be thanked for his services and not signed. Vierinha needs to seriously consider retirement and accept a post within the organization.

MLS is a business, just like every other professional sport in the US and Canada as opposed to Greek Superleague, which is a money laundering operation. The concept of filling a stadium to capacity in Greece is unattainable dream these days.

For Toumba reconstruction PAOK needs a license to be issued by the Greek government. This license has been promised for the past 3 years, but is being delayed on purpose by the current Greek government. In my opinion, as long as the current government is in power, this license will never be issued. It's quite obvious that the current "Prime Minister" of Greece Evaggelos Marinakis will not allow the construction of the new Toumba to proceed. The funding is no issue in this delay, as the construction will be fully funded by Savvidis.

2021 - 2022 Season: Round 21 (09.03.2022, 14:45 EET - Dimotiko Stadio, Karditsa) Anagenissi Karditsa - PAOK Thessaloniki 'B' TV: no coverage

First game for Karol Swiderski in the MLS with Charlotte FC in a game that broke the MLS attendance record with 74,479 attending the game. For the record Charlotte FC - Galaxy LA 0:1.

Only reason to get him into playing form for the Thursday game since he missed a lot of playing time.

One more to lock the win and we are ready Gent. Don't understand how Kaddouri accumulated 4 cards. Did he even play 4 games this season?

Actually 2:1

VS MATCHUP: PAOK Thessaloniki FC – KAA Gent COMPETITION: Europa Conference League – Round of 16 – Leg 1 DATE: 10-March-2022 TIME: 19:45 EET (17:45 UTC, 11:45 CDT, 04:45 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium Stadium (28,708) REFEREES: Bartosz Frankowski - Marcin Boniek, Jakub Winkler (Poland) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Cytavision Sports (Cyprus), Stan Sports (Australia), Paramount+, TUDN.com (USA) PAOK’s History against teams from Belgium in European Competitions 2010-2011: PAOK FC – Club Brugge KV 1:1 – (25. Vieirinha) – Att: 19,424 – Europa League (Group Stage – Round 5) 2010-2011: Club Brugge KV – PAOK FC 1:1 – (78. Malezas) – Att: 17,525 – Europa League (Group Stage – Round 1) 1991-1992: KV Mechelen – PAOK FC 0:1 – (87. Borbokis) – Att: 19,500 – UEFA Cup (Round 1 – Leg 2) 1991-1992: PAOK FC – KV Mechelen 1:1 – (40. Skartados) - Att: 35,000 – UEFA Cup (Round 1 – Leg 1) 1967-1968: FC Royal Liege – PAOK FC 3:2 – (29. Afentoulidis, 79. Makris) – Att: 20,000 – Fairs Cup (Round 1 – Leg 2) 1967-1968: PAOK FC – FC Royal Liege 0:2 – Att: 24,554 – Fairs Cup (Round 1 – Leg 1) GAMES: 6 WINS: 1 TIES: 3 LOSSES: 2

Squad for the game: No Douglas but Zivkovic is in. Hopefully he will only get 20-30 minutes of play in order to minimize the chances of being carded. Also no Crespo and Lyratzis. Probably being rested for Gent. It's been raining for two straight days in Lamia, so the pitch will probably be in very bad shape.

He better claim injuries.