Blackhawk

Penalty

Another nice one.

Swiderski. Nice goal

We are not winning this game.

2:1

As usual ...

1:1

Schwab 1:0

Penalty. Please no Vieirinha.

I am really surprised that Rodrigo is not starting considering he can't play against Copenhagen, but I guess he is on the bench as a possible sub for Taylor and/or Vieirinha as the game progresses.

What a joke. And all this so just one team can get promoted to Superleague 1. My prediction is that out of the 34 teams not all will finish the competition.

Very good news. The contract extension will be signed and announced next week. Three year deal, which does not include a buyout option. It appears the sticking points were the length of the new contract and the buyout option.

Andrija.

Turns out that Zotos is the athlete found to be doped. Zotos (and his coach) will have to serve a 4-year ban from competitions. He will be 29 years old when he is able to compete again. My prediction is that he will drop out of the sport.

Rumors are that negotiations with Andrija Zivkovic are not going very well and that it's unlikely that he will renew his contract with PAOK.

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.