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That's all good pash, but as of this writing we don't have a technical director. If the rumors are true we will be getting a Russian based TD, who probably has no clue about PAOK. It will take time for him to learn the Greek/PAOK reality. If you ask me I think Georgie will be making all the decisions. For some reason I think the TD rumors and possible upcoming changes were behind the Pablo Garcia outbreak this past weekend.

Good opportunity to sell him at a good price.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Olympiakos Piraeus COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Final DATE: 22-May-2021 TIME: 21:00 EEST (18:30 UTC, 13:00 CDT, 04:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Athens – OAKA Stadium (68,079) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport 1 (Greece), Cytavision Sports (Cyprus), Arena Sports 4 (Serbia), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) 2-Hour Tape Delay: ERT 3, ERT 3 Web Stream (Greece) PAOK – Olympiakos Greek Cup history: 2019-2020: SEMIFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: no fans 2019-2020: SEMIFINAL-L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:2 (Pelkas 2, Misic) - Attendance: no fans 2013-2014: SEMIFINAL-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 17,789 (The “gavroi on the bench” game, with a 5 kilos of gavroi being placed on Olympaikos bench prior to the game by a fan, resulting in delay of game, and severe punishment by EPO) 2013-2014: SEMIFINAL-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 32,000 2010-2011: QUARTERFINAL-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: no fans (the famous game played behind closed doors with Marinakis throwing whiskey bottles at people from the VIP suite and the police helicopters hovering over Toumba and Thessaloniki) 2010-2011: QUARTERFINAL-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:1 (Vieirinha) - Attendance: 28,404 2008-2009: QUARTERFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 (aet) - Attendance: 23,983 2008-2009: QUARTERFINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Conceisao) - Attendance: 21,043 2002-2003: QUARTERFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:2 (Georgiadis, Okkas) - Attendance: 11,466 (Rizoupolis Stadium, Athens) 2002-2003: QUARTERFINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:1 (Georgiadis, Markos, Okkas) - Attendance: 17,647 2000-2001: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:4 (Egkomitis, Borbokis, Georgiadis, Nalitzis) - Attendance: 13,300 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) – CUP WINNER 1999-2000: Round of 16: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Frousos) - Attendance: 17,317 (Single leg tie) (OAKA Stadium, Athens) 1996-1997: Round of 16-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Tasiopoulos) - Attendance: 4,503 1996-1997: Round of 16-L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:2 (Zouboulis) - Attendance: 20,498 1991-1992: FINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 29381 1991-1992: FINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: 25,744 1990-1991: Round of 32-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:0 (Karageorgiou, Borbokis, H. Hassan) - Attendance: 33,411 1990-1991: Round of 32-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 17,789 1989-1990: Round of 16-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:0 (5:3 pen) - Attendance: 22,090 1989-1990: Round of 16–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 27,217 1985-1986: Round 2: Olympiakos - PAOK 0:0 (4:3 pen) - Attendance: 25,955 (Single leg tie) (OAKA Stadium, Athens) 1980-1981: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 3:1 (Damanakis) - Attendance: 30,512 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) 1979-1980: Round of 32: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:2 (Orfanos, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 38,150 (Single leg tie) 1978-1979: Round of 16: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:2 (6:5 pen) (Guerino, Kermanidis) - Attendance: 38,846 (Single leg tie) 1975-1976: SEMIFINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:1 (6:5 pen) (Guerino) - Attendance: 38,846 (Single leg tie) 1974-1975: SEMIFINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 4:0 - Attendance: ? (Single leg tie) 1973-1974: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:2 (3:4 pen) (Paridis, Aslanidis) - Attendance: 26,402 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) – CUP WINNER 1972-1973: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:0 - Attendance: 40,070 (Karaiskaki Stadium, Piraeus) 1970-1971: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 3:1 (Sarafis) - Attendance: 38,000 (Karaiskaki Stadium, Piraeus) 1950-1951: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 4:0 - Attendance: ? (Leoforos Alexandras, Athens) GAMES: 30 WINS: 10 TIES: 6 LOSSES: 14 All home games played at Toumba Stadium. All away games played at Karaiskaki Stadium unless otherwise noted. PAOK never played a single leg tie at home against Olympiakos. All Greek Cup Finals against Olympiakos were played either in Athens or Piraeus.

In the PAOK TV interview he emphasized that he hopes there will be better referees calling the final. In the first interview on NOVA he did not say that he is leaving. He said that when he leaves others will follow as well. Quite a cryptic quote. The problem is that people will now take this quote and use it for their own twisted agendas ahead of the cup final.

0:1 final Boring game. Some of the worst refereeing in SL. Now to the final.

We will lose 2:0.

This ref is something else.

The idiot ref repeats the penalty

Paschalakis saves it

Penalty for Tripoli

I expected Kagawa to play today.

He might not stay at Chelsey, but I am almost certain he will not stay in Greece. I would like to be proven wrong.

I agree. If we could get PAOK TV on every platform available in the rest of the world it would be great, but let's face it as Athens4 points out who would want to get involved with a corrupted product such as Greek soccer in general and Superleague in particular. To show you how bad things are, here in the US, the Turkish Superliaga has a TV contract with beIn Sports and their games are televised live on their platform and the whole country can see the games. The Greek Superleague on the other hand has to rely on couple stations directed at omogenia and sub-standard product quality (no HD/expensive subscriptions, etc).

Why? They already cover the rest of the world with PAOK TV. Now, if they could manage and add PAOK TV to Amazon Prime, that would be something.

Probably won't be a PAOK player by that time.

Tzolis's mind is already on his next team. Would not be surprised if he was already sold and we are waiting only for the announcements. We will see a completely different game in the cup final.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Asteras Tripolis COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Playoffs - Round 10 DATE: 16-May-2021 TIME: 19:30 EEST (16:30 UTC, 11:30 CDT, 02:30 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports (Greece & Cyprus), PAOK TV (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), NovaspsortsWorld (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), Sport Plus (USA, Canada, Australia) P.A.O.K. vs Asteras Tripoli History: 2020-2021: 2:0 (Tzolis, Zivkovic-p) - Attendance: no fans 2019-2020: 3:1 (Swiderski, Pelkas, Lambrou) - Attendance: 15,168 2018-2019: 1:0 (Prijovic-p) - Attendance: 16,255 2017-2018: 2:0 (Mauricio 2) - Attendance: no fans 2016-2017: 3:2 (Shakhov, Prijovic, Henrique) - Attendance: 15,209 2015-2016: 2:0 (Pelkas, Mak) - Attendance: 8,812 2014-2015: 0:0 - Attendance: 9,137 (PLAYOFFS) 2014-2015: 0:0 - Attendance: no fans 2013-2014: 1:1 (Stoch) - Attendance: 6,388 (PLAYOFFS) 2013-2014: 2:0 (Vitor 2) - Attendance: 13,637 2012-2013: 1:0 (Oliseh) - Attendance: 10,529 (PLAYOFFS) 2012-2013: 2:1 (Lawrence, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 5,601 2011-2012: 2:3 (Athanasiadis, Georgiadis) - Attendance: 6,894 2010-2011: 1:0 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 13,585 2009-2010: 1:0 (Koutsianikoulis) - Attendance: 14,128 2008-2009: 1:1 (Anastasakos) - Attendance: 15,892 2007-2008: 0:1 - Attendance: 12,796 GAMES: 17 WINS: 11 TIES: 4 LOSSES: 2

We have not created a single chance in 2nd half. Aris tied Panathinaikos so 2nd place is mathematically secured. Even bigger rotation on Sunday.

Garcia takes our best player out (Michailidis) to put in Crespo. Also Konstantelias in for Tzolis

Swid, Zivko in Krmencik, Warda out

Mihaj in for Lyratzis to start the 2nd half.

Also one of the worst refereeing I have seen lately. After seeing the highlights during halftime, the goal by Olympiakos started with a foul on Warda.

We could have scored couple goals with Krmencik and Tzolis, but we also could be losing 3:0 now. Good beginning, but we gave them too much space after the first 20 minutes. the injury to Papastathopoulos actually helped Olympiakos to take control of the game.

81% possession for Olympiakos in the last 20 minutes. And now a post hit by Olympiakos.

After the first 20 minutes we let them have possession and we paid for it.