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Last minute lineup change. Augusto in for El Kaddouri who got injured during warm up. Things are not starting well. Hopefully we are not looking at another disaster. I predict a 1:1 tie.

Here is the squad for the game: Looking at the squad, it is almost certain that one of the players that came down with COVID is Koutsias. The other one is probably one of the injured ones (Vieirinha, Mitrita) are one that is not part of the European players list (Ingason, Rodrigo, Kagawa)

Two PAOK players came down with COVID and will miss tomorrow's games as well as the game with Lamia on Sunday.

Zagorakis did not have the support because he was forced upon EPO by the New Democracy government acting on behalf of Evaggelos Marinakis who wanted to regain control of EPO from AEK. He was basically a puppet and when their trick did not work he resigned.

2021 - 2022 Season: Round 7 (11.12.2021, 14:45 EET - Katerini) Pierikos Katerini - PAOK Thessaloniki 'B' TV: no coverage

Looks like George Savvidis is coming back and will start taking part in day-to-day operations of PAE PAOK judging from the barrage of Instagram postings by him.

The return games have been scheduled by EPO: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 15:00 EET: Anagenissi karditsa - Aghios Nikolaos 17:00 EET: Panatolikos Agrinio - Niki Volos 17:00 EET: PAOK thessaloniki - AE Larisa 19:00 EET: Olympiakos Piraeus - Levadeiakos Thursday, December 23, 2021 15:00 EET: OFI - Aris Thessaloniki 17:00 EET: Ionikos Nikaias - PAS Lamia 17:00 EET: NFC Volos - Panathinaikos Athens 19:00 EET: Kifisia - AEK Athens

Vieirinha, Mitrita, Rodrigo, Ingason, Michailidis are out for various reasons. This pretty much means that the CB due will be Varela, Mihaj. Hopefully that's enough to contain the amateurs from Gibraltar.

This is the first game that will be played without fans following the punishment by Superleague disciplinary committee.

I guess it depends on the player. For example players like Varela and Crespo that are past their prime know that they will not be renewed no matter how they perform, so they just coast. Also players that are on loan to us seeing that the ship is sinking will not risk possible injuries.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – PAS Lamia 1964 COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Round 13 DATE: 12-December-2021 TIME: 17:15 EET (15:15 UTC, 09:15 CST, 02:15 AEDT) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports Prime (Greece & Cyprus), PAOK TV (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), Net TV Plus (Greece & Cyprus) PAOK FC – PAS Lamia history: Superleague 2020-2021: 4:0 (18. Baba, 48. Tzolis, 52. Warda, 65. Zivkovic) - Attendance: nf 2019-2020: 3:0 (2. Misic, 6. Limnios, 11. Swiderski) - Attendance: 19,013 2018-2019: 3:0 (34. Henrique, 78. Shakhov, 83. Biseswar) - Attendance: 22,125 2017-2018: 4:0 (10. Leovas, 24. Prijovic, 50, Pelkas, 88. Prijovic) - Attendance: no fans GAMES: 4 WINS: 4 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 0

The defensive problem is not only because of our aging defensemen, it's also because of our slow midfield. On top of that at least half the players have their contracts expire at the end of the season. There is just no incentives for some of them to give their all on the pitch not knowing what the future holds for them. That is a problem created by the team management or better yet the lack of team management. Don't think there can be major clearance in January. Maybe 2 or 3 moves. The main thing that they need to do though is get serious about planning on building a new team in Summer of 2022.

Did not deserve anything in this game. The team plays without passion and many players are not able to follow the tempo of the game. We tried to play in second half after we were down 3:1. There need to be drastic changes, and they need to start now.

3:2 Murg

3:1 now

2:1 halftime. Despite the "maimou" penalty, the Ionikos lead is deserved. Except for the goal we did not create anything else. Add to it our Swiss cheese defense and the loss in this game is deserved.

Penalty for Ionikos and 2:1.

1:1 by Canas

Nice header after Taylor cross.

Swiderski 1:0

Another pathetic display by the team so far.

If that happened we would be in 1st place, and would have avoided the playoff round.

Disagree. Punishment was harsh, specially the monetary fine, which as it stands is the heaviest fine ever levied in Greece. As for the game bans, I totally disagree with these bans as they punish the people that purchased season/game tickets (the majority of fans) and do not participate in violent actions. I am still waiting for a class action lawsuit in Greece by season ticket holders that are not able to attend games that they paid for. Don't care if Savvidis and co makes statements. I want them to get serious and eliminated the bad apples from attending the games. For starters people that do not have tickets should not be in the stadium. Also, thorough search of all fans entering the station. Also we will appeal the decision. I have a feeling the monetary fine will be reduced as a result.

The fines for the Aris game are in: 4 games without fans (Lamia, Tripoli, AEL, Panaitolikos) € 193,500 fine Additionally the Greek government punished PAOK with a 1 game ban for gates 4 and 4A due to non-compliance with COVID restrictions. This ban will be served in the game with Lamia for which PAOK is already banned anyway.

We finish in second place if PAOK wins, Slovan loses or ties PAOK ties, Slovan loses PAOK wins, Slovan wins (we run up the score to have better goal differential than Slovan) We fail to qualify if PAOK loses, Slovan loses* PAOK ties, Slovan ties PAOK wins, Slovan wins (we don't run up the score to have better goal differential than Slovan) * we can still qualify if that happens, but Slovan would need to lose by a bigger goal margin than us (2 goals or more) Example: we lose 1:0, Slovan loses 3:0)