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PAOK players international duties this coming week: GREECE - Paschalakis 9.10.2021 20:00 EEST: Georgia - Greece (World Cup Qualifying) 12.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Sweden - Greece (World Cup Qualifying) SLOVENIA - Kurtic 8.10.2021 19:00 EEST: Malta - Slovenia (World Cup Qualifying) 11.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Slovenia - Russia (World Cup Qualifying) ALBANIA - Mihaj 9.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Hungary - Albania (World Cup Qualifying) 12.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Albania - Poland (World Cup Qualifying) POLAND - Swiderski 9.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Poland - San Marino (World Cup Qualifying) 12.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Albania - Poland (World Cup Qualifying) ROMANIA - Mitrita 8.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Germany - Romania (World Cup Qualifying) 11.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Romania - Armenia (World Cup Qualifying) SERBIA - Zivkovic A. 9.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Luxembourg - Serbia (World Cup Qualifying) 12.10.2021 21:45 EEST: Serbia - Azerbaijan (World Cup Qualifying) GREECE U21 - Lyratzis, Michailidis, Tsiggaras, Tsaousis, Koutsias 8.10.2021 19:00 EEST: Belarus - Greece (Euro U21 Qualifying) 12.10.2021 19:00 EEST: Cyprus - Greece (Euro U21 Qualifying)

Pouggouras was called up to replace Papadopoulos.

With the development concerning Kaftanzoglio Stadium for the PAOK 'B' team today, I will go on record saying that as long as New Democracy (ie Marinakis) is in power new Toumba stadium will not be build. Let's not forget that the initial agreement signed back in 2018 or 2019 was that we had 4 years to start building the stadium or the agreement would be void. I am fairly sure that their (government/Marinakis) will drag this for that long.

BTW the draw was made and our first game is AE Larisa - PAOK'B'

Kaftanzoglio is a property of GGA (Geniki Gramatia Athlitismou = Greek government). The boss of GGA is Lefteris Augenakis, who is the right hand of Evaggelos Marinakis and his man in Greek government. Avgenakis was behind the PAOK-Xanthi allegations of dual ownership on orders from Marinakis. It's quite obvious that this is nothing but obstacles being thrown at PAOK at the plans to build the new Toumba. They (government, Marinakis, etc.) don't want PAOK to build a new stadium with private funds (Savvidis) and will do anything possible to delay or prevent the stadium to be build. Also, they placed Olympiakos 'B' team in the north division of Superleague 2. Olympiakos has announced that their 'B' team will be based in Thessaloniki and will play their home games at a stadium in Thessaloniki that has not been announced yet.

Yeah that's a big loss for Copenhagen and sadly for our NT as well. Let's hope it will make it easier for PAOK in our next two European games. The problem is that our game in Copenhagen is sandwiched between our games with the SL leader Volos and the hated rival Olympiakos. We will play 3 tough games in the span of 7 days.

Augusto calmly makes it 3:0

Exceptional free kick by Kurtic

This Sidiropoulos ref has to be one of the worst refs in Greece.

Common Schwab. What else do you need to score there.

After scoring we are giving them way too much playing space.

Three OFI players came down with COVID. Two more positive results and the game will be postponed.

PAOK always gets results when we are not favorites. I think we will do well against Copenhagen. It's the Slovans and Imps games that worry me. Taylor has been good the last couple games. Most goals we sore come with his involvement. Our problems are midfield and very slow and unreliable defense. Mihaj and Michailidis in 2nd half our worst players today.

I would not say that yet. Two wins against Copenhagen and we are first, but we still have an away game in Bratislava. We just made our job so much harder. We always make it hard on ourselves. I think in the end we will finish second, but third place is also a possibility.

1:1 final. bad result.

Slovan is easily creating scoring chances against our defense. We should be happy the games is still tied and we can thank Paschalakis for that. This game can go either way.

Poor defensive coverage.

1:1

Akpom

Fixed. I am concerned about Esiti starting. When he starts he usually has a bad game.

PAOK Lineup: ------------- Paschalakis ------------ Taylor - Mihaj - Michailidis - Sidcley ------ Schwab ---------- Esiti ------- Zivkovic ------ Augusto ------ Mitrita -------------- Akpom --------------- BENCH: Zivkovic, Talichmanidis, Lyratzis, Vieirinha, Tsaousis, Giaxis, Tsiggaras, Kurtic, Biseswar, Konstantelias, Swiderski

I believe Giaxis can play as CB. He has been taking part in 'A' squad practices for a while now.

Varela and Murg ruled out for this game following their injuries this past weekend.

The PAOK produced behind the scenes videos for each game are always fun to watch. This one for the game with AEK was quite good. Notice the double middle finger salute by a fan in the stands at the 6:16 minute mark.

OFI enters this game unbeaten, but on the other hand they have not won a single game yet.