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Looks like the captain will not be able to play in this match. He might travel with the team though to provide moral support. Tough game, but we can qualify with two results. Win or tie scoring a goal. Olympiakos needs to win to go through. I think Olympiakos will come out blazing trying to score early. If we can survive the first 25 minutes we will put pressure on them and I thin we will be able to score at least one goal. My starting lineup: ------------ Paschalakis ------------ Lyratzis - Ingason - Crespo - Sidcley ------ Kurtic ------- Tsiggaras ------ Zivkovic ------ Augusto ------ Mitrita --------------- Oliveira -------------- But we all know Lucescu will start with Biseswar.

2021 - 2022 Season: Round 33 (27.04.2022, 15:00 EEST - Makedonikos Stadium, Efkarpia) PAOK Thessaloniki 'B' - AE Larisa TV: ERT Sport Web stream

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Olympiakos Piraeus COMPETITION: Superleague 1 - Round –playoffs – Round 4 DATE: 04-May-2022 TIME: 19:00 EEST (16:00 UTC, 11:00 CDT, 02:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports Prime (Greece, Cyprus), PAOK TV, Net TV Plus (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus) P.A.O.K. vs Olympiakos history: Superleague 2021-2022: 1:1 (own goal) - Attendance: nf 2020-2021: 2:0 (Zivkovic 2) - Attendance: nf (PLAYOFFS) 2020-2021: 1:1 (Ingason) - Attendance: nf 2019-2020: 0:1 - Attendance: nf (PLAYOFFS) 2019-2020: 0:1 - Attendance: 26,377 2018-2019: 3:1 (Vieirinha, Biseswar, Akpom) - Attendance: 25,097 2017-2018: 0:3 - Attendance: 24,717 (Olympiakos won on forfeit as they got scared of flying paper and decided not to play the game) 2016-2017: 2:0 (Shakhov, Prijovic) - Attendance: 26,379 2015-2016: 0:2 - Attendance: 25,674 2014-2015: 0:0 - Attendance: 24,411 2013-2014: 2:1 (Athanasiadis, Tzavellas) - Attendance: 23,344 2012-2013: 1:1 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 23,023 2011-2012: 0:2 - Attendance: 18,299 2010-2011: 2:1 (Koutsianikoulis, Vitolo-p) - Attendance: 20,023 2009-2010: 1:0 (Muslimovic) - Attendance: 24,109 (PLAYOFFS) 2009-2010: 1:2 (Vieirinha) - Attendance: 24,109 2008-2009: 0:0 - Attendance: 22,214 2007-2008: 1:1 (Gonzales) - Attendance: 22,000 2006-2007: 2:3 (Mieciel, Torghelle) - Attendance: 23,483 2005-2006: 1:2 (Shikabala) - Attendance: 7,050 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2004-2005: 1:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 23,950 2003-2004: 0:2 - Attendance: no fans 2002-2003: 1:1 (Georgiadis-p) - Attendance: 22,296 2001-2002: 1:1 (Spasic) - Attendance: 22,200 2000-2001: 2:4 (Nalitzis, Frousos) - Attendance: 5,723 1999-2000: 0:2 - Attendance: 25,550 1998-1999: 1:2 (Frantzeskos) - Attendance: 25,858 (match abandoned in 83rd minute) 1997-1998: 2:1 (Franzeskos, Toursounidi) - Attendance: 26,471 1996-1997: 0:0 - Attendance: 35,850 1995-1996: 0:0 - Attendance: 6,699 (played at Trikala) 1994-1995: 2:0 (Bocziek 2, Kapetanopoulos) - Attendance: 26,404 1993-1994: 1:1 (Luhovy) - Attendance: 10,291 1992-1993: 0:0 - Attendance: 7,988 1991-1992: 1:2 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 8,577 (end of the 21 year Olympiakos winless streak at Toumba) 1990-1991: 3:2 (Skartados 2, Alexiou) - Attendance: 17,870 1989-1990: 4:1 (Skartados 2, Lagonidis, Alexoulis-p) - Attendance: 17,169 1988-1989: 1:0 (Karasavidis) - Attendance: 32,112 1987-1988: 6:1 (Borbokis 2, Bannon, Mavromatis, Siggas, Baniotis) - Attendance: 10,827 (played in Serres) 1986-1987: 4:1 (Skartados-p, Baniotis, Alexandridis, Papaioannou) - Attendance: 40,718 1985-1986: 1:0 (Orfanos) - Attendance: 24,970 1984-1985: 1:0 (Kostikos-p) - Attendance: 41,073 1983-1984: 4:0 (Dimopoulos, Koudas, Skartados, Kostikos) - Attendance: 13,138 (played in Serres) 1982-1983: 1:1 (Guerino) - Attendance: 33,334 1981-1982: 3:0 (Dimopoulos 2, own) - Attendance: 22,744 1980-1981: 1:0 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: 21,359 (Gyula Lorant, PAOK coach suffers heart attack and dies on the bench during this match) 1979-1980: 2:0 (Kostikos, Kermanidis) - Attendance: 36.016 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 2:0 (Orfanos 2) - Attendance: 25,362 1977-1978: 1:0 (Guerino) - Attendance: 30,477 1976-1977: 2:1 (Guerino, Kermanidis) - Attendance: 45,147 1975-1976: 3:1 (Kermanidis, Sarafis, Guerino) - Attendance: 33,378 1974-1975: 2:0 (Kermanidis, Terzanidis) - Attendance: 37,448 1973-1974: 1:0 (Sarafis) - Attendance: 42,976 1972-1973: 1:0 (Gounaris) - Attendance: 42,150 1971-1972: 4:3 (Sarafis 2, Apostolidis, Manzourakis) - Attendance: 21,161 1970-1971: 0:0 - Attendance: 25,462 (beginning of the 21 year Olympiakos winless streak at Toumba) 1969-1970: 1:2 (Afentoulidis-p) - Attendance: 35,740 1968-1969: 2:1 (Koudas 2) - Attendance: 26,745 1967-1968: 1:0 (Charalambidis) - Attendance: 26,446 1966-1967: 2:0 (Afentoulidis 2) - Attendance: 31,504 1965-1966: 3:2 (Koudas, Afentoulidis, Charalambidis) - Attendance: 22,736 1964-1965: 0:4 - Attendance: 17,309 1963-1964: 0:0 - Attendance: 18,884 1962-1963: 2:2 (Vasiliadios, Savvidis) - Attendance: 19,510 1961-1962: 0:1 - Attendance: 15.691 1960-1961: 0:2 - Attendance: 6,000 1959-1960: 2:0 (Leandros, Katikaridis) - Attendance: 14,050 Panhellenic Championship 1958-1959: 2:3 (Kalogiannis, Kiourtzis)- Attendance: 10,000 1957-1958: 1:0 (Leandros) - Attendance: ? 1956-1957: 2:1 (Kouiroukidis 2)- Attendance: 15,000 1955-1956: 1:2 (Gentzis)- Attendance: ? 1954-1955: 2:3 (Papadakis, Gentzis)- Attendance: ? 1953-1954: 1:2 (Gentzis)- Attendance: ? 1947-1948: 0:3 - Attendance: ? 1936-1937: 1:5 (Bostanzoglou) - Attendance: ? 1935-1936: 2:2 (?)- Attendance: ? 1931-1932: 0:2 - Attendance: ? 1930-1931: 3:0 (Papagiordanidis, Pazaroglou, Biblis)- Attendance: ? GAMES: 77 WINS: 35 TIES: 18 LOSSES: 24

VS MATCHUP: Olympiakos Piraeus- P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Semifinal – Leg 2 DATE: 27-April-2022 TIME: 20:00 EEST (17:00 UTC, 12:00 CDT, 03:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Piraeus – Karaiskaki Stadium (32,115) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport 1 (Greece), Cytavision Sports (Cyprus), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) PAOK – Olympiakos Greek Cup history: 2021-2022: SEMIFINAL-L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 0:0 - Attendance: ? 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 game) (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 game) 1978-1979: Round of 16: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:2 (6:5 pen) (Guerino, Kermanidis) - Attendance: 38,846 (Single leg game) 1975-1976: SEMIFINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:1 (6:5 pen) (Guerino) - Attendance: 38,846 (Single leg game) 1974-1975: SEMIFINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 4:0 - Attendance: ? (Single leg game) 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: 32 WINS: 11 TIES: 7 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.

0:0 final. If we can score in Piraeus we will qualify.

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.