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VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – ‘O’ Aris Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Round 25 DATE: 07-March-2021 TIME: 19:30 EET (17:30 UTC, 11:30 CsT, 04:30 AEDT (next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: Szymon Marchiniak - Pawel Sokolnicki, Tomasz Listewicz (Poland) TELEVISION: PAOK TV (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), Novasports (Greece & Cyprus), NovaSportsWorld (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus) P.A.O.K. – Aris history: Superleague 2019-2020: 0:0 - Attendance: nf (PLAY-OFFS) 2019-2020: 2:2 (Matos, Misic) - Attendance: 23,926 2018-2019: 1:1 (Vieirinha) - Attendance: 22,544 2014-2018: Aris played in lower divisions 2013-2014: 3:1 (Lucas, Athanasiadis, Vukic) - Attendance: 19,440 2012-2013: 4:1 (Lawrence, Katsikas, Fotakis, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 20,440 2011-2012: 0:0 - Attendance: 16,041 2010-2011: 0:1 - Attendance: 20,084 2009-2010: 2:0 ( Ivic, Savini) - Attendance: 23,412 (PLAY-OFFS) 2009-2010: 4:1 (Muslimovic 2, Ivic, Vitolo-p) - Attendance: 23,034 2008-2009: 1:0 (Contreras) - Attendance: 26,019 2007-2008: 3:0 (Balafas, Christodoulopoulos, Salmon) - Attendance: 22,000 2006-2007: 1:0 (Melissas) - Attendance: 10,393 2005-2006: Aris played in B’ Division Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2004-2005: 2:2 (Salpiggidis-p, Karypidis) - Attendance: 10,975 2003-2004: 3:0 (Giasemis, Salpiggidis, Koutsis) - Attendance: 13,950 2002-2003: 2:0 (Giasemis, Theodoridis) - Attendance: 3,339 (played in Trikala) 2001-2002: 1:1 (Okkas) - Attendance: 23,756 2000-2001: 2:0 (Ekgomitis, Okkas) - Attendance: 11,969 1999-2000: 3:2 (Nalitzis-p, Konstantinidis, Kafes) - Attendance: 14,603 1998-1999: 1:4 (Kafes) - Attendance: 22,798 1997-1998: Aris played in B’ Division 1996-1997: 2:1 (Vryzas 2) - Attendance: 28,038 1995-1996: 1:0 (zouboulis) - Attendance: 15,995 1994-1995: 2:0 (Zouboulis 2) - Attendance: 19,734 1993-1994: 1:2 (Luhovy) - Attendance: 6,051 1992-1993: 2:0 (Pitsis, T. Dimopoulos) - Attendance: 1,554 1991-1992: 1:1 (Alexiou) - Attendance: 23,025 1990-1991: 2:1 (Skartados 2) - Attendance: 10,505 1989-1990: 2:0 (Alexoulis, Karageorgiou) - Attendance: 15,259 1988-1989: 1:1 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 14,563 1987-1988: 3:1 (Bannon, Borbokis, Iordanidis) - Attendance: 25,246 1986-1987: 2:0 (Borbokis, Mavromatis) - Attendance: 26,282 1985-1986: 1:0 (Skartados) - Attendance: 24,179 1984-1985: 2:0 (Skartados, Paprica) - Attendance: 30,890 1983-1984: 0:1 - Attendance: 12,453 1982-1983: 0:2 - Attendance: 21,026 1981-1982: 1:0 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: 26,499 1980-1981: 1:1 (Siggas) - Attendance: 28,157 1979-1980: 2:0 (Kostikos 2) - Attendance: 42,795 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 1:0 (Guerino) - Attendance: 36,567 1977-1978: 2:1 (Kermanidis, Koudas) - Attendance: 23,693 1976-1977: 2:0 (Guerino, Orfanos) - Attendance: 41,950 1975-1976: 2:2 (Sarafis, Apostolidis) - Attendance: 42,296 1974-1975: 5:0 (Koudas 2, Sarafis, Paridis, Tsiligiris) - Attendance: 36,025 1973-1974: 0:1 - Attendance: 41,428 1972-1973: 1:0 (Sarafis) - Attendance: 44,486 1971-1972: 0:0 - Attendance: 37,869 1970-1971: 2:2 (Stavridis, Aslanidis) - Attendance: 29,890 1969-1970: 0:0 - Attendance: 28,516 1968-1969: 0:0 - Attendance: 29,442 1967-1968: 2:3 (Foundoukidis, Lados) - Attendance: 28,748 1966-1967: 0:0 - Attendance: 20,177 1965-1966: 1:1 (Koudas) - Attendance: 11,804 1964-1965: 0:2 - Attendance: 21,655 1963-1964: 0:1 - Attendance: 17,912 1962-1963: 3:0 (Leandros, Papadopoulos, Marvakis) - Attendance: 3,840 1961-1962: 2:1 (Giakoumis, Vasiliadis) - Attendance: 8,850 1960-1961: 3:0 (Sidiropoulos 2, Vasiliadis) - Attendance: 8,048 1959-1960: 0:0 - Attendance: 9,983 Panhellenic Championship 1958-1959: 1:0 (Kouiroukidis) - Attendance: ? 1956-1957: 3:1 (Havanidis 2, Kouiroukidis) - Attendance: ? 1955-1956: 4:2 (Kouiroukidis 3, Papadakis) - Attendance: ? 1935-1936: 2:0 (forfeit) 1931-1932: 0:3 - Attendance: ? 1930-1931: 2:4 (Pazaroglou, Biblis) - Attendance: ? GAMES: 63 WINS: 35 TIES: 17 LOSSES: 11

We are in the rebuilding process which started at the beginning of this season. Going back to Lucescu who basically deserted the team would be a step backward. since we decided to go with Garcia we need to stick with him and let him create his own team (part of rebuilding). Garcia should be evaluated at the end of the 2021-2022 season.

Tripoli with two shots on goal wins the game. Had the "offside" goal counted it would have been a different game.

Zivko 2:1

More likely for Tripoli to score 3rd one than us scoring.

2:0

Game wwe should be winning we are losing at halftime. Lambrou totally useless on the left wing. Hopefully Tzolis can come in for the second half.

And just like that 1:0

Did not look like offside to me.

Starting lineup

Dropped to 20th place after yesterday. Mathematically we can still reach 15 place if Olympiakos reaches the semis and manages 4 wins and 3 ties along the way.

VS MATCHUP: PAS Lamia 1964 - PAOK Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Quartefinal – Leg 2 DATE: 03-March-2021 TIME: 18:00 EET (16:00 UTC, 10:00 CST, 03:00 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Lamia - DAK Lamias – (5,500) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Cytavision Sports (Cyprus), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) PAOK – PAS Lamia Greek Cup History: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2020-2021: PAOK – PAS Lamia 5:2 (6. Tziolis, 16. Schwab, 67. Tzolis, 82. Rodrigo, 88. Krmencik) - Attendance: nf (Quartefinal – Leg 1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1984-1985: PAS Lamia – PAOK 1:9 (Vasilakos 3, Iordanidis 2, Mavromatis 2, Paprica, Iosifidis) - Attendance: 3,424 (Round 3 – Leg 2) 1984-1985: PAOK – PAS Lamia 6:0 (12. Damanakis, 19. Paprica (p), 41. Dimopoulos, 65. Paprika, 74. Iordanidis, 87. Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ? (Round 3 – Leg 1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1971-1972: PAOK – PAS Lamia 2:0 (47. Koudas, 56. Apostolidis) - Attendance: 23,589 (Semifinal) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GAMES: 4 WINS: 4 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 0

That's good news. This will be a tough game. Hopefully we can win this one.

Douvalidis dropped out of the European Championships due to injury.

I don't think this new Conference League is going to be as easy competition as everyone thinks. You are still going to have teams from top European leagues. They might not be the top teams from those leagues, but still strong teams. There will teams similar to Granada that we faced last season, and we could not even score in the two games we played them.

Tzolis is ok and is ready to play, however Andrija Zivkovic sustained an injury during practice and his participation will be decided tomorrow.

That's why we will never accomplished anything as a national team going forward. Really sends a bad message to the players that really want to play for the national team consider it an honor to do so. Also if he really starts calling players such as Ninis, Mitroglou, Tzavellas than Schip is taking steps backward after making some progress recently.

Here is the final squad: Άνδρες (φετ./ Ατ. Ρεκόρ) 60 μ.: Κώστας Ζήκος (ΓΕΑ Τρικάλων) 6.64/6.62 Γιάννης Νυφαντόπουλος (ΓΣ Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) 6.77/6.73 1.500 μ.: Ανδρέας Δημητράκης (Παναξιακός ΑΟ) 3.43.99/3.42.43 60 μ. εμπ.: Κώστας Δουβαλίδης (ΓΣ Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) 7.59/7.67 Επί κοντώ: Κώστας Φιλιππίδης (Πανελλήνιος ΓΣ) 5,55 μ./5,91 μ. Μήκος: Μίλτος Τεντόγλου (ΓΣ Κηφισιάς) 8,21 μ./8,38 μ. Αλέξανδρος Περιστέρης (ΓΑΣ Παιανίας) 7,45 μ./8,06 μ. Τριπλούν: Δημήτρης Τσιάμης (ΟΣΦΠ) 16,42 μ./17,55 μ. Νίκος Ανδρικόπουλος (ΑΕ Μεσογείων) 16,39 μ./16,47 μ. Γυναίκες 60 μ.: Ραφαέλα Σπανουδάκη (ΓΣ Ηλιούπολης) 7.23/7.23 Μαρία Γάτου (ΠΑΟΚ) 7.35/7.29 Κέλλυ Σαμάνη (Αίολος Μακεδονίας) 7.34/7.62 400 μ.: Ειρήνη Βασιλείου (ΑΕ Μεσογείων) 52.96/52.93 800 μ..: Κωνσταντίνα Γιαννοπούλου (Παναθηναϊκός ΑΟ) 2.04.84/2.04.84 1.500 μ.: Αναστασία Μαρινάκου (ΓΕΑ Τρικάλων) 4.19.84/4.16.97 60 μ. εμπ.: Ελισάβετ Πεσιρίδου (ΑΟ Κάλλιστος) 8.34/8.04 Ύψος: Ιωάννα Ζάκκα (ΑΟ Φιλοθέης) 1,85 μ./1,91 μ. Επί κοντώ: Ελένη Πόλακ (ΑΟ Μεγάρων) 4,71 μ./4,71 μ. Τριπλούν: Βούλα Παπαχρήστου (ΑΟ Κάλλιστος) 14,60 μ./14,73 μ. Σπυριδούλα Καρύδη (ΓΣ Κερκυραϊκός) 13,72 μ./14,12

If we don't take the competition seriously we will fail. Just noted that Slovan Bratislava will also play in the competition and we all remember what happened last time we played them. Don't think we will reach quartefinals, but qualifying from the group stage should be a realistic goal. Also don't forget we will start the competition the first part of July, so if the team is not ready teams such as Ostersud can do some damage.

Things are slowly shaping up for the upcoming European season. As things stand and assuming PAOK does not self destruct by finishing 5th in the Superleague, we will start the European campaign in the 2nd Qualifying Round of Conference League. Early indication on possible opponents can be seen in the following spreadsheet: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=4FE4712A1E3EA4FA!301&ithint=file%2Cxlsx&authkey=!AI0j65LlMWkMofc

Tsiggaras was solid in the last few games that he was called upon to play. Big test for him will be the games against Aris and Panathinaikos going forward to the playoffs.

I really hope that it's not the case. I will lose any respect that Schip gained as a coach of the NT.

The four don't have to reach the qualifying limits. Their participation depends on rankings in the particular events after absences of qualified athletes are announced. Looking at the team I expect two medals for Greece (Tentoglou and Papachristou)

That is the most likely lineup. It appears that El Kaddouri will probably not get much playing time going forward as he is refusing to agree to a contract extension. I am also waiting for the day when Kagawa gets a start and if Warda keeps his cool as a result.

As expected Schwab will sit this one out due to cards. He will be joined by Ingason. Remains to be seen if Tzolis will play after his injury.