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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.

2021 - 2022 Season: Round 22 (06.03.2022, 14:45 EET - Makedonikos Stadium, Efkarpia) PAOK Thessaloniki 'B' - Apollon Pontou TV: no coverage

We need to win this game in order to have a chance to increase our lead over AEK and Aris in the standings. AEK playes against Tripoli at home, but Tripoli still has a chance to make the playoffs so they will try hard to win. As for Aris, they play Olympiakos and we already know the end result. So with a win we could go into the playoffs with +10/+11 points ahead of AEK/Aris.

The players in question are A. Zivkovic - 6 cards Douglas - 6 El Kaddouri - 3 Mitrita - 3 To be on the safe side I would not even start Zivkovic and Douglas, since they will miss 2 games in the playoffs if they get yellow cards. El Kaddouri and Mitrita will miss only one game if they are carded so it's not such big deal. After the end of regular season all accumulated cards are erased going into the playoffs.

VS MATCHUP: PAS Lamia 1964 - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Round 26 DATE: 06-March-2022 TIME: 19:00 EET (17:00 GMT, 11:00 CST, 04:00 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Lamia – DAK Lamias (Capacity: 5,500) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Prime Tel (Cyprus) PAS Lamia 1964 – PAOK history: Superleague 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: 4 WINS: 4 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 0

Red card Tsiggaras

Starting lineup:

I am fairly sure the fact that he is now 3 years older has more to do with his decline than his cool haircut.

Now that Russia is banned by UEFA, Greece moves to number 14 position in the standings.

Situation yellow cards going into the playoffs: 6 - Zivkovic, Douglas 5 - Michailidis Going into the playoffs the accumulated cards are being erased at the end of regular season and everything starts from scratch. However if the players reach 7 cards in the next two regular season games (AEK, Lamia), they will need to serve the 2 game bans. This means that those players need to be careful not to receive any cards in those two games in order to be clean for the playoffs.

He will probably rest on Sunday as well so he can be ready for Europe and playoffs.

Squad for the game: Zivkovic out with COVID.