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Tsitsipas once again showing that he has a loser mentality. He was leading Djokovic 4:0 in second set and up 40:0 and managed to lose the set and the match 3:6, 6:7. Same goes for the other loser Sakkari, who had her path opened to a medal by some of the favorites being eliminated, only to lose to low rate Kostyuk from Ukraine.

VS MATCHUP: Malmo FF - PAOK Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Champions League – Qualifying Round 3 – Leg 1 DATE: 06-August-2024 TIME: 20:00 EEST (17:00 UTC, 12:00 CDT, 03:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Malmo – Eleda Stadium (22,500) REFEREES: John Beaton - Daniel McFarlane, Douglas Potter (Scotland) TELEVISION: Novasports Prime PAOK’s History against teams from Sweden in European Competitions 2017-2018: Ostersunds FK - PAOK 2:0 - Att: 5,697 – Europa League (Qualifying Round 4 – Leg 2) 2017-2018: PAOK – Ostersunds FK 3:1 (38. Matos, 77. Prijovic, 88. Prijovic (p)) - Att: 16,743 – Europa League (Qualifying Round 4 – Leg 1) GAMES: 2 WINS: 1 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 1

The draw for the Playoff round of the Champions League takes place on Monday. The winner of the PAOK - Malmo matchup will be among seeded teams. Here are the seeding for the draw: SEEDED TEAMS Dinamo Zagreb CRO 50.000 Red Star Beograd SRB 40.000 winner PAOK Thessaloniki - Malmo FF 37.000 winner Ferencvaros Budapest - Midtjylland 35.000 Young Boys Berne SUI 34.500 UNSEEDED TEAMS winner Qarabag FK - Ludogorets Razgad 33.000 Galatasaray Istanbul TUR 31.500 winner Slovan Bratislava - APOEL Nicosia 30.500 winner Bodo Glimt - Jagellonia Bialystok 28.500 winner Sparta Prague - FC Steaua Bukurest 22.500 If we manage to eliminate Malmo, we will face one of the teams from the unseeded section.

There are two PAOK athletes that are taking part in at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Odysseas Melanidis, who is part of the Greek swimming team. He took part in the 4x100 meter Freestyle relay, which finished in the 16th place overall in the competition with a time of 3:17.47. The other PAOK athlete is Theodoros Tselidis. Tselidis was born in Russia to a Greek father and Russian mother and moved to Greece in 2018. Tzelidis is the athlete that won the first medal for Greece at the Paris Olympics in 90 kg event in Judo. His results to the bronze medal were as follows: Round of 32: Tzelidis - Florentino (Dom. Rep) 10:0 Round of 16: Tzelidis - Majdov (Serbia) 10:0 Quartefinal: Tzelidis - Hambou (France) 0:1 Repechage: Tzelidis - Grigorian (UAE) 10:0 Bronze medal game: Tzelidis - Mosakhlishvili (Spain) 1:0 Final Rankings: 1. Bekauri (Georgia) 2. Murao (Japan) 3. Tzelidis (Greece) 3. Hambou (France)

Murg 0:1

So close by Koulierakis.

Better wake up soon PAOK.

Let's be positive. The day started well with PAOKtsaki Tzelilis getting the first medal for Greece in the Olympics and will end with easy qualification to the next round. The midfield duo of Ozdoev, Schwab worries me a bit.

First medal (bronze) for Greece from Theodoros Tselidis in the 90 kg Judo competition.

I was just listening to a random Thessaloniki sports station and they had their reporter in Banja Luka who said that the only change in PAOK's lineup compared to the first game will be Otto in place of Sastre. I do believe that Lucescu is sometimes very stubborn, but I don't believe he is so stupid as not to change the midfield and also not start Konstantelias instead of Murg.

NAME: Shola Maxwell SHORETIRE POSITION: Attacking Midfield JERSEY NUMBER: 47 BIRTHDAY: 02-February-2004 BIRTH PLACE: Newcastle, England HEIGHT 1.71 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: Manchester United, Bolton Wanderers, Manchester United Youth teams CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2028 SALARY: € ? per season (free transfer)

NAME: Tarik TISSOUDALI POSITION: Centre-Forward JERSEY NUMBER: 34 BIRTHDAY: 02-April-1993 BIRTH PLACE: Amsterdam, Holland HEIGHT 1.82 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: 10-Jan-2022 (Morocco – Ghana 1:0) PREVIOUS TEAMS: KAA Gent, Beershot VA, Le Havre, De Graafschap, VVV-Venlo, SC Cambuur, Telstar, Sparta Nijkerk, SV Argon, CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2026 (+1) SALARY: € 1,400,00 per season, € 2.200,000 purchase

I don't see any changes this season. It will probably be the same setup as last season. As far as I know the deal between COSMOTE and Novasport was for Greece only. The international streaming service Net TV Plus that showed some games last season is owned by Novasport and was only able to show the games that Novasport had rights to. I don't see that changing for this season. As for the regular (non-streaming) international TV rights we will probably see the same arrangement as previous seasons. Antenna Satellite/Pacific and Sport Plus will split the games among themselves. I don't see any significant changes happening until 2025-26 season, when apparently the Superleague will attempt to set up a collective agreement concerning the TV rights.

At the last minute Novasport managed to get the rights to televise the game in Greece and Cyprus. Also bunch of Serbian/Croatian/fakeMacedonian/Bosnian TV channels will show the game. Not sure if it will happen tomorrow but the last two Borac European games were streamed for free on youtube live.

Chalov is apparently done deal negotiated by Ivan Savvidis himself. Surprised though that he did not travel with Ivan in his private jet to Thessaloniki on Friday. Chalov will probably just come during the week and sign a contract with Savvidis at his Halkidiki resort.

Yeah, I followed the game. However they will be knocked out in the next round as they will face FC Copenhagen.

Well she was dropped from the Olympic team and did not travel to Paris. She claims she is innocent (they always do). She'll probably get 4 year ban. I don't see her racing again.

VS MATCHUP: FK Borac Banja Luka - PAOK Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Champions League – Qualifying Round 2 – Leg 2 DATE: 31-July-2024 TIME: 22:00 EEST (19:00 UTC, 14:00 CDT, 05:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Banja Luka – Banja Luka Stadium (10,030) REFEREES: Sander van der Eijk - Rens Bluemink, Dyon Fikkert (Holland) TELEVISION: PAOK’s History against teams from Bosnia-Herzegovina 2024-2025: PAOK FC – FK Borac Banja Luka 3:2 – (17. Koulieraqkis, 39. Koulierakis, 51. Ekong) – Att: 16,135 – Champions League (Qualifying Round 2 – Leg 1) GAMES: 1 WINS: 1 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 0

We have reached a deal with Tarik Tissudali and KAA Gent. He is expected in Thessaloniki to undergo a physical and sign a 2+1 year deal with a 1.4 mil salary per season. We also paid 2.2 mil to KAA Gent for his rights. Apparently it was his countryman El Kaddouri that convinced him to come to PAOK after he talked to the PAOK ex-player.

Very poor showing by PAOK. With a display like that we stand no chance against Malmo. That's assuming we can get at least a tie next week in Banja Luka and qualify. All our goals came from our defensemen and mostly from set pieces. Our midfield and offense was lost out there.

Ekong 3:2

If I was Lucescu, the changes at half-time should be Kedziora in for Ekong, Zivkovic in for Despodov, Konstantelias in for Murg. Big mistake was starting Ozdoev together with Schwab making our midfield non-existant.

WTF is that? Don't believe we let this team score twice. Better wake up for the second half.

Koulierakis again

WTF