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VS MATCHUP: SK Slovan Bratislava - PAOK Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Europa Conference League – Group Stage - Round 5 DATE: 25-November-2021 TIME: 19:45 EET (17:45 UTC, 11:45 CST, 04:45 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Bratislava – Tehelne Pole (22,500) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport TV (Greece), Stan Sport (Australia), Paramount+, TUDN.com (USA) PAOK’s History against teams from Slovakia in European Competitions 2021-2022: PAOK - Slovan Bratislava 1:1 – (Akpom) - Att: 7,537 – Europa Conference League (Groups Stage – Round 2) 2019-2020: PAOK - Slovan Bratislava 3:2 – (Limnios, Swiderski, Giannoulis) - Att: 20,776 – Europa League (QR4, Leg 2) 2019-2020: Slovan Bratislava – PAOK 1:0 Att: 20,233 – Europa League (QR4, Leg 1) 2015-2016: Spartak Trnava – PAOK 1:1 – (Konstantinidis) - Att: 3,555 – Europa League (QR3, Leg 2) 2015-2016: PAOK – Spartak Trnava 1:0 – (Lucas) - Att: 12,427 – Europa League (QR3, Leg 1) 1997-1998: Spartak Trnava – PAOK 0:1 – (Zagorakis) - Att: 9,000 – UEFA Cup (QR1, Leg 2) 1997-1998: PAOK – Spartak Trnava 5:3 – (Maragos 2, Zagorakis-p, Frantzeskos, Olivares) - Att: 26,492 – UEFA Cup (QR1, Leg 1) GAMES: 7 WINS: 4 TIES: 2 LOSSES: 1

Draw is tomorrow. As far as I know there are no seeded/unseeded teams so theoretically anybody can be drawn against anybody. However we all know that this will not happen. I will be quite surprised if any of the top 4 are drawn against each other.

You need 7 positive cases in one day for that to happen. Game is on as scheduled for now but a lot can happen until Sunday.

After losing to Russia and tying Faeroe Islands we needed a win to qualify. Bad outcome considering the games took place in Greece.

Swiderski scoring the tying goal for Poland against Hungary.

2021 - 2022 Season: Round 3 (20.11.2021, 15:00 EET - Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki) PO Triglia (fake Iraklis) - PAOK 'B' Thessaloniki TV: ?

Mihaj and Swiderski are both starting in today's games for their respective national teams.

VS MATCHUP: Atromitos Athens - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Round 10 DATE: 21-November-2021 TIME: 19:30 EET (17:30 UTC, 11:30 CST, 04:30 AEDT next day) CITY / STADIUM: Peristeri - Dimotiko Stadium (Capacity: 8,969) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports (Greece, Cyprus), Net TV Plus (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus) Atromitos – PAOK History Superleague 2020-2021: 3:2 (Swiderski, Warda) - Attendance: nf 2019-2020: 2:3 (Akpom, Matos, Crespo) - Attendance: 2,053 2018-2019: 1:1 (Crespo) - Attendance: 1,635 2017-2018: 0:2 (Campos, Crespo) - Attendance: 756 2016-2017: 0:2 (Biseswar, Koulouris) - Attendance: 726 2015-2016: 1:2 (Berbatov, Mak) - Attendance: 1,219 2014-2015: 1:1 (Pereyra) - Attendance: 1,417 (playoffs) 2014-2015: 4:0 - Attendance: 1,640 2013-2014: 1:2 (Salpiggidis, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 2,315 (playoffs) 2013-2014: 1:1 (Tzavellas) - Attendance: 2,894 2012-2013: 2:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 2,292 (playoffs) 2012-2013: 1:0 - Attendance: 3,910 2011-2012: 0:0 - Attendance: 3,274 2011-2012: 1:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 2,651 (playoffs) 2010-2011: 2:2 (Lino, El Zhar) - Attendance: no fans 2009-2010: 0:0 - Attendance: 4,020 2007-2008: 0:0 - Attendance: 2,770 2006-2007: 2:1 (Christodoulopoulos) - Attendance: 1,638 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2005-2006: 2:1 (Salpiggidis-p) - Attendance: 1,883 Between 1981 - 2005 Atromitos was playing in lower divisions before merging with Chalkydona in 2005. 1980-1981: 0:2 (Triantafyllidis, Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ?? Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1976-1977: 1:6 (Sarafis 2, Koudas 2, Kermanidis, Anastasiadis) - Attendance: 7,033 (Leoforos Alexandras) 1975-1976: 0:1 (Apostolidis) - Attendance: ?? 1974-1975: 0:1 (Aslanidis) - Attendance: ?? 1972-1973: 0:2 (Sarafis, Apostolidis) - Attendance: ?? 1960-1961: 1:1 (Salusto) - Attendance: 2,000 (Karaiskaki Stadium) GAMES: 25 WINS: 10 TIES: 9 LOSSES: 6

Best option right now is to keep the current coach. The current players play for him and give it their all. They don't see the national team as a nuisance like some players in the past. Thankfully those players are gone. Only players that want to play on the national team and respect the coach should be called up. Bringing in a Greek coach right now, specially Donis, will be a step in the wrong direction. Another thing that needs to be pointed out is that Greek football is sick. There is no patience to develop the players. In 2004 a lot of the NT players were part of the U21 team that qualified to the U21 final against Spain. What has the current U21 team done lately? They can't even qualify from the group stage. And than you have the domestic leagues, where majority players are foreign based and Greek player don't get any playing time. No wonder the NT coach has to scan 2nd and 3rd division teams in Europe to find players with Greek roots that might be called up.

Typical Greek NT. Can't put games against smaller teams away. Until we start putting away the smaller teams we will not go anywhere. Will be mistake to fire the coach now unless you bring in back Santos. Several players have no place on the team either.

Swiderski came in in the 77th minute.

Squad for the game:

Michailidis, Tsiggaras and Lyratzis played with U21 in the winning game (2:0) against Belarus today. Tsaousis did not make the squad. Mihaj and Swiderski are starting on the bench for their respective teams. Oedraogo did not play in the Algeria - Bulrkina Faso (1:1) game.

Miracles don't happen every day. We are playing quite a superior team. I would not go in all attack mode. We can only play them like we did the first half relying on counters to catch them off guard. If we open up it will be a disaster. All we can hope for is a lucky bounce early to put us back in the game, and hope for the best. However the most likely outcome is that Spain will win quite easily. Masouras was clearly offside on the play and the goal correctly did not count. The penalty call is questionable, but they should have known that this ref is known as "penaltakias" which was proven in a couple Superleague games in the past.

Zivkovic started in the friendly game against Qatar but was subbed in the second half. Kurtic was left off the squad in the game against Slovakia since he is serving a yellow card ban.

The games that sealed our fate were the two ties against Georgia and Kosovo.

Gustavo Varela, the PAOK U19 team player and the son of Fernando Varela came in as substitution for Portugal in the U17 Euro qualifying game against Kazakhstan in the 63rd minute. Portugal won 5:0.

The game against Panserraikos will be available on PAOK TV.

TV Coverage: 11-NOVEMBER-2021 21:45 EET (19:45 UTC, 13:45 CDT, 06:45 AEDT) GREECE - SPAIN TV: OPEN TV, COSMOTE Sport 1HD (Greece), Cytavision Sports 4 (Cyprus), TVE La 1 (Spain), Optus Sport (Australia), TLN (Canada), ESPN+, TUDN, UNI Mas, Univision NOW, TUDNxtra, TUDN.com (USA) https://www.facebook.com/Greeksoccerontv

Best option is AEL FC Arena. It's privately owned so Koulis can't try his dirty trick to delay things. I think in the end we will end up at Kaftanzoglio. All these press releases are a just moves to put pressure on the politicians to move things along.

Looks like Jaba is returning to PAOK in January 2022.

PAOK players international duties this coming week: GREECE - Paschalakis 11.11.2021 21:45 EET: Greece - Spain (World Cup Qualifying) 14.11.2021 21:45 EEST: Greece - Kosovo (World Cup Qualifying) SLOVENIA - Kurtic 11.11.2021 21:45 EET: Slovakia- Slovenia (World Cup Qualifying) 14.11.2021 16:00 EET: Slovenia - Cyprus (World Cup Qualifying) ALBANIA - Mihaj 12.11.2021 21:45 EET: England - Albania (World Cup Qualifying) 15.11.2021 21:45 EET: Albania - Andorra (World Cup Qualifying) POLAND - Swiderski 12.11.2021 21:45 EET: Andorra - Poland (World Cup Qualifying) 15.11.2021 21:45 EET: Poland - Hungary (World Cup Qualifying) SERBIA - Zivkovic A. 11.11.2021 19:00 EET: Serbia - Qatar (Friendly Game) 14.11.2021 21:45 EET: Portugal - Serbia (World Cup Qualifying) BURKINA FASO - Oedraogo 12.11.2021 15:00 EET: Burkina Faso - Niger (World Cup Qualifying) 16.11.2021 18:00 EET: Algeria - Burkina Fason (World Cup Qualifying) GREECE U21 - Lyratzis, Michailidis, Tsiggaras, Tsaousis 12.11.2021 16:00 EET: Greece - Belarus (Euro U21 Qualifying) 16.11.2021 16:00 EET: Greece - Iceland (Euro U21 Qualifying) GREECE U19 - Koutsias, Kountenakis, Koulierakis, Spyrakos 10.11.2021 15:00 EET: Greece - Russia (Euro U19 Qualifying) 13.11.2021 15:00 EET: Greece - Faroe Islands (Euro U19 Qualifying) 16.11.2021 15:00 EET: Greece - Germany (Euro U19 Qualifying) PORTUGAL U17 - Varela 10.11.2021 19:00 EET: Portugal - Kazakhstan (Euro U17 Qualifying) 13.11.2021 19:00 EET: Portugal - Wales (Euro U17 Qualifying) 16.11.2021 17:00 EET: Portugal - Ukraine (Euro U17 Qualifying)

2021 - 2022 Season: Round 2 (13.11.2021, 15:00 EET - Makedonikos Stadium, Nea Efkarpia) PAOK 'B' Thessaloniki - Panserraikos Serres TV: PAOK TV

Why are you calling Krmencik a skinhead? Don't think he is an aggressive, violent and a racist person as defined by the Oxford dictionary.

Big win. Now much needed rest before more crucial games that are coming up. The injuries are lining up and I don't know how much longer Biseswar will last.