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There is no excuse for not winning this match. We went into the game thinking the win would come automatically. Add to it childish mistakes in the first half and the rest is history. In the second half we improved, but could not crack the parked bus. We will face the parked bus in the second game, so Lucescu better come up with some answers. I hate to say it, but Biseswar has to start over Kagawa next week.

Need to at least tie it up.

2:1 Oliveira

I don't believe Biseswar is coming in.

2:0

Without Esiti in the game we would be losing big time today.

Let that be a wake up call. Otherwise we are looking at the same fate as AEK and Aris. Our players though they would coast to an easy victory.

Big mistake by Michailidis.

You have to just shoot there Oliveira.

Varela very shaky today. Should be glad Bohemians attack is nothing special.

How did Zivkovic missed that?

We did quite poorly in Sailing where we had success in the past. The best we can now accomplish is 4th place in men's 470. I think Drisbioti will be a surprise. See her win in the European Walking Cup earlier this year. She might not medal, but I think she will finish at the top. Karalis was a pleasant surprise. He was close to jumping 5.87. The future belongs to him. Douvalidis needs to stick around, as there are currently no young prospects that can race below 14 seconds. I am afraid that will be the case for at least the next 3 or 4 years. Douvalidis will remain our no. 1 for a while. Hopefully he won't have such a difficult season as this one (multiple injuries and Covid on top of it). Our Synchronized Swimming team was banned from participating in the Olympic competition as 3 more athletes from the team came down with Covid. Also our two athletes in the Duet will not be able to compete in the second part of the competition for the same reason.

I am not surprised. We don't really have anybody better for that position. OPEN TV went down about half an hour ago due to all the fires in the area, but thankfully came back on. Hopefully there won't be any interruptions during the game.

I guess we will be wearing our white jersey in tomorrow's game. The one that was not officially announced by PAE PAOK as one of our game jerseys. Macron claims these jerseys are made completely from recycled polyester.

I don't know. I am just wondering how these two stories just surfaced in the last few days. It's just interesting how this sleazebag Beos is getting involved in issues concerning PAOK.

I think we can squeeze out one more medal. Best possibility is probably Stefanidi in pole vault, but there is strong competition in that event. Other chances, but less likely are in water polo, Drisbioti in 20 km walk, Volikakis in cycling and maybe Prevolaraki in wrestling.

The whole Warda situation is beginning to sounds very fishy to me. Over the weekend there was a report that there is a Superleague player that was reported to the EPO Disciplinary Committee with sexual abuse allegations. Today the Volos mayor and NFC Volos owner came out saying that as much as he loves Warda and as a player, he has decided not to pursue his transfer to Volos because of ethical issues that have no place on his football team.

If we defeat Bohemians we will play the winner of Hibernian/Rijeka

This could be a good day for our athletes, but let's not get our hopes up like we did in the past few days only to be disappointed. Tentoglou should medal, but it will be a tough competition with the Cuban who jumped 8.50m in qualifying. The gold medal will be decided in the 8.70 m mark. Petrounias is the favorite for the gold, but he returned to full competition only recently. His past experience will surely help him. As for Iakovidis there was no scandal. It was just the athlete breaking down after the competition spilling his guts on how difficult it is for the Greek athletes to train for the Olympics, with minimal help from the government, while politician fat cats, such as the Minister of Sports writing himself 20,000 Euro check from state funds so he could travel to Tokyo and take picture with the successful athletes.

Papachristou was a big disappointment, but not unexpected considering she was very poor in competition in 2021. Except for Tentoglou and maybe Karalis, I don't expect anybody else qualifying from the qualifiers today and tomorrow. Golomeev's time was the 3rd best in qualifying. he has the potential of qualifying to the final where anything can happen in a race that lasts slightly over 21 seconds. Any medal hopes in Sailing are fading away unless the 470 men can turn it around in the remaining races. Korakaki was under intense pressure, and let's not forget the competition was very strong in both competitions. Taking this into consideration she did fairly well. One miss and she would have missed the final round yesterday. We are doing well in water polo. We already secured a spot in quarterfinals, but still have two group games left (South Africa and USA). Hopefully we can finish strong and get an easier opponent in the quarterfinal.

VS MATCHUP: FC Bohemians Dublin – PAOK Thessaloniki FC COMPETITION: Europa Conference League – Qualifying Round 3 - Leg 1 DATE: 03-August-2021 TIME: 21:45 EEST (18:45 UTC, 13:45 CDT, 04:45 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Dublin – Aviva Stadium (51,700) REFEREES: Anti Munuka – Jan-Peter Aravirta, Jukka Houkanen (Finland) TELEVISION: OPEN Beyond (Greece), LOITV (https://www.loitv.ie/en-int/playerpage/814443) (worldwide) PAOK’s History against teams from Ireland in European Competitions 2011-2012: Shamrock Rovers FC – PAOK FC 1:3 – (7. Salpiggidis, 35. Fotakis, 38. Salpiggidis) - Att: 6,124 – Europa league (Group Stage, Round 4) 2011-2012: PAOK FC – Shamrock Rovers FC 2:1 – (12. Lazar, 63. Vieirinha) – Att: 28,703 – Europa league (Group Stage, Round 3) GAMES: 2 WINS: 2 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 0

Hopefully we can avoid Union Berlin and Rubin Kazan.

UEFA released the sub-grouping for Monday's Play-Off Draw. The winner of PAOK - Bohemians will face one of the following teams: 1. FC Union Berlin (Germany) winner of HNK Rijeka (Croatia) - Hibernian Edinburgh (Scotland) winner of Rubin Kazan (Russia) - Rakow Czestachowa (Poland) winner of FK Velez Mostar (Bosnia) - IF Elfsborg Boras (Sweden)

Douskos gold medal. Bravo Stefane.

It looked like penalties in the Aris - Astana game also, but Astana scoring the deciding goal in the 120th minute.