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It should still be penalty though.

El Kaddouri you idiot. Two games in a row you burn the team.

Tells you a lot about our players physical condition when after a short sprint they tend to get injured.

That's the big question. Is the establishment/front office going to let Garcia do his thing? For example I am sure Garcia or any other coach would like to kick Jaba out of the team for his childish behavior, but will he be able to do it when the player was brought into the team by the Savvidis family that pays the wages.

Time to forget Europe and focus on Sunday's game. Good thing is that we will have Augusto available for this game. He was missed in yesterday's game.

VS MATCHUP: PAOK Thessaloniki – Granada CF COMPETITION: Europa League – Group Stage – Round 6 DATE: 10-December-2020 TIME: 19:55 EET (17:55 GMT, 11:55 CST, 04:55 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium Stadium (28,708) REFEREES: John Beaton - Daniel McFarlane, Alan Mulvanny (Scotland) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport 1 (Greece), Optus Sports (Australia), DAZN (Canada), CBS All Access, TUDN.com, TUDNXtra (USA) PAOK’s History against teams from Spain in European Competitions 2020-2021: Granada CF – PAOK 0:0 – Att: nf – Europa League (Group Stage - Round 2) 2010-2011: PAOK – Villareal CF 1:0 – (69. Vieirinha) - Att: 22,779 - Europa League (Group Stage - Round 4) 2010-2011: Villareal CF – PAOK 1:0 – Att: 14,760 – Europa League (Group Stage - Round 3) 1997-1998: Atletico Madrid – PAOK 5:2 – (20. Frantzeskos, 65. Maragos) - Att: 28,000 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 2) 1997-1998: PAOK – Atletico Madrid 4:4 – (15. Frantzeskos, 55. Olivares, 75. Zagorakis, 82. Zouboulis) – Att: 25,378 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 1) 1990-1991: PAOK – Sevilla FC 0:0 (3:4 pen) – Att: 35,000 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 2) 1990-1991: Sevilla FC – PAOK 0:0 – Att: 40,000 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 2) 1982-1983: Sevilla FC – PAOK 4:0 – (Athanasiadis, Fotakis) - Att: 14,350 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 2) 1982-1983: PAOK – Sevilla FC 2:0 – (49. Dimopoulos C., 61. Kostikos) – Att: 17,725 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 1) 1975-1976: FC Barcelona – PAOK 6:1 – (77. Anastasiadis) - Att: 30,000 – UEFA Cup (Round 1, Leg 2) 1975-1976: PAOK – FC Barcelona 1:0 – (73. Koudas) - Att: 45,020 – UEFA Cup (Round 1, Leg 1) GAMES: 11 WINS: 3 TIES: 4 LOSSES: 4

Even if Garcia matures quickly and gains the necessary experience there is always the chance of of him clashing heads with the organizational establishment within the club that resulted in successful coaches (Ivic, Lucescu) leaving the team. Until the people in the front office mature, don't expect coaching positions and player relations (Jaba, Matos, etc.) to improve.

Yes that is a cardinal sin. PAOK should be spelled only with capital letters! Period.

There were coaching mistakes made in the last two European games. Let's face it. This is all new to Garcia. He doesn't even have a coaching license yet. He will need time to learn the ropes in the man's game. Coaching 19 year old kids is different think than coaching a senior squad with senior players and their egos. I have no doubt he will be successful in the end, but it will take time. And since we are in a rebuilding stage, he will need to continue what Ferreira and Rebbe started, which is make the team younger. We cleaned the roster quite a bit in the summer, but there is still some work left.

Because that's where he belongs. He has not shown that he has a spot on this team. And that is saying a lot.

1. Granada 10 2. PSV 9 3. PAOK 5 4. Omonia 4 Granada and PSV qualify. Omonia deposits 570K into their bank account. Big rotation in the Granada game expected.

Selling those will be our biggest mistake right now.

Actually two saves by Zivkovic.

Can't get any luckier than that.

Murg in for Schwab Giannoulis in for Wague

As expected. The problem is us winning.

Tzolis to the rescue

Big chance by Crespo

Wague I think is the biggest problem on that side.

Might as well give it up. Easily could have been 3:0 by now.

ok I'll admit it. Either way I have weak spot for both, the kid and the coach.

He was going to play anyway. Every player that is part of the pre-game press conference always starts. I expect Tzolis to have a great game. As for Esiti he should only be used in the 2nd half when we have he lead. Regarding the scenarios. The way I see it we will have to win both remaining games. Granada has been struggling lately and I am convinced that PSV will defeat them quite easily. For that reason we need to win tomorrow at any cost and then finish the job at Toumba against Granada. the good thing is that Omonia pretty much gave up on the remaining European games. Their only incentive is the 570K they would get for the win.

The ones that are not linked to Piraeus are swiftly removed from their positions by the dark forces. There used to be a judge in the Athletic Appeals court whose relative was employed by Open TV and Olympiakos managed to have him removed from his post saying that he can't be impartial since he works for the company that is owed by Savvidis.

Hopefully Giannoulis is fit to play. There is no way we can go with Crespo again in that position.

EPO finally decided to try the case that was returned back to them by CAS in July. This is the case that was fabricated by Olympiakos lies that Savividis owes Xanthi. EPO has scheduled the case to be heard on December 9, 2020. Considering that the court is headed by a judge who is self proclaimed Olympiakos fan and who has several of his children competing in Olympiakos swimming team it is more than certain that we will be once again be relegated to second division and will have to take the case back to CAS.