Blackhawk

Squad for the game:

This is the game that will most likely decide the 1st place in the group. With a win we pretty much lock in the first place.

The youngsters (Talichmanidis, Koutsias, Tsiggaras, Lyratzis) have been officially announced that they will help out the 'B' team this weekend. In case of Ingason I think they are trying to convince him that this is the right thing to do.

VS MATCHUP: PAOK Thessaloniki FC – FC Copenhagen COMPETITION: Europa Conference League – Group Stage – Round 4 DATE: 04-November-2021 TIME: 22:00 EEST (20:00 UTC, 15:00 CDT, 07:00 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium Stadium (28,708) REFEREES: Pawel Raczkowski - Radoslaw Siejka, Adam Kupsik (Poland) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Cytavision Sports 3 (Cyprus), TV2 Play (Denmark), Stan Sport (Australia), Paramount +, TUDN.com (USA) PAOK’s History against teams from Denmark in European Competitions 2021-2022: FC Copenhagen – PAOK FC 1:2 – (19. Sidcley, 38. Zivkovic A.) – Att: 19,552 – Europa Conference League (Group Stage – Round 3) 2015-2016: Brondby IF – PAOK FC 1:1 – (21. Costa) – Att: 6,630 – Europa League (Qualifying Round 4 – Leg 2) 2015-2016: PAOK FC – Brondby IF 5:0 – (17. Mak, 36. Pelkas, 51. Rodrigues, 80. Mak, 82. Mak) – Att: 20,106 – Europa League (Qualifying Round 4 – Leg 1) 1977-1978: PAOK FC – Vejle BK 2:1 – (22. Orfanos, 79. Kermanidis) – Att: 19,000 – Cup Winners Cup (Round 2 – Leg 2) 1977-1978: Vejle BK – PAOK FC 3:0 - Att: 18,500 – Cup Winners Cup (Round 2 – Leg 1) GAMES: 5 WINS: 3 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 1

PAOK will defend the Greek Cup title again this season. So far 5 rounds of the competition have been completed and starting with next round (Round 6) PAOK and the rest of the teams will enter the competition. The following 16 teams will take part in the draw for the Round 6 of Greek Cup: PAOK Thessaloniki Olympiakos Piraeus AEK Athens Aris Thessaloniki Panathinaikos Athens Ionikos Nikaias PAS Lamia NFC Volos Panaitolikos Agrinio OFI winner of Kifisia - Apollon Smyrnis ----------------------------------- AE Larisa Levadeiakos Anagennisi Karditsa Aghios Nikolaos Niki Volos

2021 - 2022 Season: Round 1 (31.10.2021, 15:00 EET - Alcazar Stadium, Larisa) AE Larisa - PAOK 'B' Thessaloniki

We'll use this thread to follow the PAOK 'B' team Superleague 2 games. Superleague 2 starts this weekend unless it's postponed at the last minute. Still no TV contract, but I have a feel ERT will come through at the last minute.

Kurtic, Tsiggaras and Ingason are available to play. Now if Lucescu decides to play them is another question.

Kurtic and Tsiggaras are back from COVID protocols and are available for action. Ingason is taking part in full practices.

Sidcley out for 3 weeks Mitrita out for 4 weeks Both with sprains. Sidcley is a big loss, since we only have Vieirinha on that side and he is not 100% fit.

Played in 5 games for PAOK that season mostly coming from the bench. The only game he started was against Olympiakos. The Apollon game was actually his debut wearing PAOK jersey Video from the Apollon game:

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – Apollon Smyrnis COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Round 8 DATE: 30-October-2021 TIME: 19:30 EEST (16:00 UTC, 11:30 CDT, 03:30 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports Prime (Greece & Cyprus), PAOK TV (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus) , Net TV Plus (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus) P.A.O.K. vs. Apollon Smyrnis history: Superleague 2020-2021: 2:2 (Warda, Ingason) - Attendance: nf 2019-2020: Apollon played in Superleague 2 2018-2019: 2:0 (Mauricio, own goal) - Attendance: 15,918 2017-2018: 3:0 (Mak, Prijovic, own goal) - Attendance: 8,539 2013-2014: 0:0 - Attendance: 8,523 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 1999-2000: 1:1 (Vryzas) - Attendance: 9,679 1998-1999: 3:1 (Valencia, Krismarevic, Konstantinidis) - Attendance: 5,079 1997-1998: 1:0 (Nagbe) - Attendance: 4,760 1996-1997: 3:1 (Frantzeskos, Tasiopoulos, Inempolidis) - Attendance: 4,481 1995-1996: 2:1 (Kapetanopoulos, Gioukoudis-p) - Attendance: 863 (played in Volos) 1994-1995: 1:1 (own goal) - Attendance: 4,690 1993-1994: 1:0 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 1,484 1992-1993: 2:0 (Alexiou, Ikonomidis) - Attendance: 1,555 1991-1992: 2:1 (Djurdjevic, Skartados) - Attendance: 7,177 1990-1991: 3:0 (Borbokis, Karageorgiou, Skartados) - Attendance: 4,503 1989-1990: 1:1 (Lagonidis -p) - Attendance: no fans 1988-1989: 3:2 (Small 2, Skartados ) - Attendance: 11,070 1986-1987: 3:0 (Baniotis, Skartados, Alexandridis) - Attendance: 12,757 1985-1986: 5:0 (Skartados 2, Kostikos 2, Paprica) - Attendance: 10,489 1984-1985: 0:0 - Attendance: 17,251 1983-1984: 3:2 (Koudas, Skartados, Dimopoulos) - Attendance: 4,722 1982-1983: 2:0 (Skartados, Trimhold) - Attendance: 3,023 1981-1982: 3:0 (Iosifidis, Tsourelas, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 8,547 1980-1981: 3:0 (Kermanidis 2, Triantafylidis) - Attendance: 8,465 1979-1980: 1:0 (Kostikos) - Attendance: 2,387 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 3:0 (Apostolidis, Orfanos, Sarafis) - Attendance: ? 1977-1978: 3:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1976-1977: 2:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1975-1976: 3:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1973-1974: 4:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1971-1972: 3:0 (Apostolidis 2, Mantzourakis) - Attendance: ? 1970-1971: 0:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1968-1969: 2:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1967-1968: 1:1 (Afentoulidis) - Attendance: 15,000 1966-1967: 2:1 (Leandros 2) - Attendance: ? 1965-1966: 4:1 (Afentoulidis, Giakoumis, Koudas-p, Charalambidis) - Attendance: 15,000 1964-1965: 2:1 (Giakoumis, Apostolidis) - Attendance: ? 1963-1964: 0:2 - Attendance: ? 1962-1963: 2:0 (Hasiotis, Leandros) - Attendance: ? 1961-1962: 2:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1960-1961: 1:1 (Leandros) - Attendance: ? 1959-1960: 1:2 (Katikaridis) - Attendance: 8,000 Panhellenic Championship 1957-1958: 2:3 (Katikaridis, Papaioannou) - Attendance: ? 1956-1957: 1:2 (Kouiroukidis) - Attendance: 8,000 1955-1956: 2:2 (?) - Attendance: ? 1954-1955: 3:0 (Karafoulidis 3) - Attendance: ? 1947-1948: 1:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1935-1936: 1:2 (?) - Attendance: ? 1931-1932: 1:3 (Papaiordanidis-p) - Attendance: ? 1930-1931: 2:0 (Lazarou, Papaiordcanidis-p) - Attendance: 3,000 GAMES: 49 WINS: 31 TIES: 12 LOSSES: 6

Olympiakos is nothing special from what I have seen so far this season. They are beatable. The only reason why we are not in 1st place in the standings right now is losing 5 point at home to Giannina and Volos.

I did not see the game, but it's obvious we don't have the depth to sustain high level of play with games very 3 days. From what I heard the two Olympiakos goals were gifts from Esiti. Yes Esiti who was our best player in Copenhagen. The "loss" to Volos appears to be very costly. Instead of being just 2 points behind an average Olympiakos team we are 4 points behind and AEK pulling ahead of us.

Wonder if he starts with Varela-Crespo CB duo. Would not put it past him. Risky move if he does.

Doesn't look like we will get any returns from injuries/illnesses, but I think we will have a slightly different lineup compared to yesterday. My lineup: ------------- Paschalakis ------------ Rodrigo - Mihaj - Michailidis - Sidcley ----- Esiti ------------- Schwab ----- Zivkovic ------ Augusto ---- Biseswar ------------- Swiderski -------------- But I think Lucescu will start Varela and Vieirinha

I agree. It will be a tough game against them at home. I will take the tie as well assuming we beat Slovan and the Imps.

The last 20 minutes of the game we played like a little team. Did not have any possession and we were giving them chances to get back in the game. Copenhagen is obviously much better team than PAOK and we will have tough time against them in Toumba. Hopefully we can win or at a minimum get a tie and not drop points against Slovan and Lincoln. That should be enough for 1st place in the group. Zivkovic and Esiti our best players. Varela should not be our starting CB anymore.

Big result.

You would think we are playing with 10 men.

Hopefully we won't self destroy ourselves like we did this past Sunday.

Gooooooooooooal Zivkovic

Gooooooal Sidcley

Red card for Copenhagen keeper.

Actual starting lineup: ------------- Paschalakis ----------- Taylor - Mihaj - Michailidis - Sidcley ---- Esiti -------------- Schwab ---- Zivkovic ----- Biseswar ----- Mitrita ------------- Swiderski ------------ BENCH: Zivkovic, Talichmanidis, Varela, Lyratzis, Vieirinha, Giaxis, El Kaddouri, Murg, Konstantelias, Augusto, Koutsias, Akpom