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We'll have two crack at them in the playoffs. there is also a chance of facing them in the cup. To answer your question, there is only one team that can defeat them and it's none other than the mighty "O" Aris ...

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The bad things is that we won't able to showcase him in CL or EL competitions. Hopefully he will get some playing time with the national team.

This is a must win game. This goes for our next 6 games if we want to solidify our standing in the 2nd or 3rd spot before the playoffs start. The remaining games in the regular season are: Panaitolikos (home) Apollon (home) PAS Giannina (away) PAS Lamia (home) Tripoli (away) Aris (home) Panathinaikos (away)

Apparently PAOK has set the starting point of discussion about Tzolis at 15 mil + 20% resale. In other transfer news, Rahman is coming to Thessaloniki tomorrow for medical tests and completing the loan from Chelsea. Kaiserispor was interested in Colak but now they are looking at other players as well, so we might be out of luck.

It will be one of those game that will be decided by one goal in the last 10 minutes of the game if we don't score an early goal.

They will not lose. Their goal is to finish undefeated so they can claim that they did too. They just can't stand that we did that and won the cup on top of that in 2019.

The score is little bit misleading. We actually had more attempts on goal then they did. The difference is theirs went in and ours didn't. And when you make such tragic mistakes as Rodrigo did on the first goal, the rest is history. I agree that playing Tzolis on the right was a mistake. I think the reason for Garcia doing this is that Zivkovic has become way too predictable and the opponents have figured him out. That's why he has not been very effective for a while. Garcia is trying to get around this by switching Zivkovic out with Tzolis. This hasn't really worked out though. Additional mistake I think is Rodrigo as LB and Vierinha as RB.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Panaitolikos Agrinio COMPETITION: Super League 1 - Round 20 DATE: 31-January-2021 TIME: 17:15 EET (15:15 GMT, 09:15 CST, 02:15 AEDT next day) CITY / STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: Aggelos Euaggelou (Athens) - Dimitrios Samoilis (Athens), Pantelis Spyropoulos (Anatoliki Attiki) TELEVISION: PAOK TV (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), Novasports (Greece & Cyprus), NovasportsWorld (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus) PAOK – Panaitolikos history Superleague 2019-2020: 2:1 (Swiderski, Misic) - Attendance: 17,968 2018-2019: 2:1 (Akpom, own goal) - Attendance: 15,168 2017-2018: 1:0 (Prijovic) - Attendance: no fans 2016-2017: 2:1 (Biseswar, Rodrigues) - Attendance: 11,515 2015-2016: 0:0 - Attendance: 8,964 2014-2015: 1:2 (Mak) - Attendance: 6,936 2013-2014: 1:0 (Lucas) - Attendance: 11,922 2011-2012: 3:0 (Vieirinha, Papazoglou, Spadacio) - Attendance: 9,975 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1976-1977: 2:1 (Orfanos 2 ) - Attendance: ? 1975-1976: 4:1 (Guerino 2, Sarafis,Anastasiadis ) - Attendance: ? GAMES: 10 WINS: 8 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 1

Agreed. Tzolis so far is our MVP for the season and Warda has been very good since he returned. After today the point difference is to big to talk about the title. We need to focus now on the cup and finishing as high in the table as possible. We are now in 4th place with Panathinaikos just 2 points behind. We need to finish 2nd place or 3rd at worst so we can at least get the 1 million bonus from NOVA.

Warda was not good today. The difference today was the superior Olympiakos midfield compared to ours, and the fact that they scored the first goal. Then we opened up, which was icing on the cake for Olympiakos.

Garcia was outcoached today. The first 30 minutes was perfect game by PAOK, but there was no way we could have kept the same intensity for the whole game. We needed to come up with some goals in that first 30 minutes, because after that Olympiakos just took over and we started making silly mistakes which was certain they would take advantage off.

The mistake was by Tzolis who lost the ball initially. I think Ingason deflected the ball and fooled Zivkovic.

And almost 2:0

You can't give them chances like that non-stop. Eventually one will go in.

That should have been a goal by Tzolis.

They are all over our defense in the last 15 minutes or so.

NAME: Shinji KAGAWA POSITION: Attacking Midfield JERSEY NUMBER: 23 BIRTHDAY: 17-March-1989 BIRTH PLACE: Kobe, Japan HEIGHT: 1.75 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: 24-May-2008 (Japan – Ivory Coast 1:0) PREVIOUS TEAMS: Real Zaragoza, Besiktas Istanbul, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, Cerezo Osaka, FC Miyagi Barcelona, Kobe NK FC, Marino FC CONTRACT ENDS: 30-June-2022 SALARY: € 600,000 per season

Starting lineup: -------------- Zivkovic -------------- Vieirinha - Ingason - varela - Rodrigo ---- Augusto ------- El kaddouri ---- Zivkovic ------ Warda -------- Tzolis ------------ Krmencik -------------- Don't understand why Garcia plays Rodrigo out of his position, when Vierinha could easily play LB.

Jaba is returning back to Thessaloniki this week to rejoin the team and start practices. He was allowed to travel to Brazil to continue his therapies there. He has not been the same since the botched surgeries on his knee. I think he is done playing soccer on competitive level.

So we are taking a risky move bringing in a player and basically provide his therapy for his serious injuries. Don't know what difference it would have been to bring in Stafyllidis.

Also over the weekend there was a report that Matos wants to return back to PAOK and has asked Ivan Savvidis to facilitate his return. As much as I like him as a player, this back and forth is becoming tiresome.

VS MATCHUP: Olympiakos Piraeus - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague - Round 19 DATE: 27-January-2021 TIME: 19:30:45 EET (17:30 UTC, 11:30 CST, 04:30 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Piraeus - G. Karaiskakis Stadium (Capacity: 32,115) REFEREES: Felix Brych - Mark Borsch, Stefan Lupp (Germany) TELEVISION: Novasport 1 (Greece, Cyprus), NovasportsWorld (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), Sport Plus (USA/Canada/Australia) Olympiakos vs. P.A.O.K. history: Superleague 2019-2020: 0:1 – (90. Mihaj) - Attendance: nf (PLAYOFFS) 2019-2020: 1:1 – (29. Ingason) - Attendance: 31,616 2018-2019: 0:1 – (49. Own goal) - Attendance: 30,532 2017-2018: 1:0 - Attendance: 30,250 2016-2017: 2:1 (6. Varela) - Attendance: 24,727 2015-2016: 1:0 - Attendance: 29,576 2014-2015: 1:2 (43. Athanasiadis, 49. Pereyra) - Attendance: 28,525 2013-2014: 4:0 - Attendance: 27,189 2012-2013: 0:0 - Attendance: 28,417 2011-2012: 2:1 (24. Balafas) - Attendance: 28,772 2010-2011: 3:0 - Attendance: 30,275 2009-2010: 0:1 (33. Ivic) - Attendance: 15,829 (PLAYOFFS) 2009-2010: 0:1 (20. Edinho) - Attendance: 26,139 2008-2009: 2:0 - Attendance: 29,482 2007-2008: 2:1 (42. Konstantinidis) - Attendance: 28,077 2006-2007: 2:0 - Attendance: 29,140 2005-2006: 1:2 (65. Konstantinidis, 70. Konstantinidis) - Attendance: no fans (The first loss for Olympiakos in the new Karaiskakis Stadium) Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2004-2005: 5:1 (65. Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 26,792 2003-2004: 1:2 (68. Salpiggidis, 87. Spasic) - Attendance: 9,164 (Rizoupoli Stadium) 2002-2003: 4:3 (35. Kafes, 60. Kafes, 72. Kafes) - Attendance: 9,518 (Rizoupoli Stadium) 2001-2002: 3:2 (54. Georgiadis-p, 57. Georgiadis) - Attendance: 37,825 (OAKA Stadium) 2000-2001: 1:0 - Attendance: 12,925 (OAKA Stadium) 1999-2000: 4:1 (76. Frantzeskos) - Attendance: 11,977 (OAKA Stadium) 1998-1999: 2:1 (3. Vryzas) - Attendance: 16,582 (OAKA Stadium) 1997-1998: 2:0 - Attendance: 32,275 (OAKA Stadium) 1996-1997: 1:0 - Attendance: 14,694 1995-1996: 1:0 - Attendance: 6,191 1994-1995: 2:0 - Attendance: 16,497 1993-1994: 1:0 - Attendance: 12,237 1992-1993: 2:0 - Attendance: 11,527 1991-1992: 3:2 (13. Anastasiadis, 87. Toursounidis) - Attendance: 18,004 1990-1991: 3:2 (75. Anastasiadis, 80. Toursounidis) - Attendance: 23,974 1989-1990: 4:0 - Attendance: 30,716 1988-1989: 0:1 (55. Borbokis) - Attendance: 74,232 (2,000 PAOK fans in attendance) (OAKA Stadium) 1987-1988: 2:1 (44. Lagonidis) - Attendance: 46,027 (OAKA Stadium) 1986-1987: 1:1 (67. Skartados) - Attendance: 53,720 (OAKA Stadium) 1985-1986: 2:0 - Attendance: 37,604 (OAKA Stadium) 1984-1985: 2:1 (89. Paprica) - Attendance: 57,581 (OAKA Stadium) 1983-1984: 1:0 - Attendance: 25,032 1982-1983: 2:0 - Attendance: 28,393 1981-1982: 0:0 - Attendance: 35,450 1980-1981: 1:0 - Attendance: 35,500 1979-1980: 2:0 - Attendance: 34,470 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 1:0 - Attendance: 27,704 1977-1978: 0:0 - Attendance: 15,714 1976-1977: 2:0 - Attendance: 39,200 1975-1976: 0:4 (24. Terzanidis, 56. Koudas, 72. Koudas, 78. Guerino) - Attendance: 39,030 1974-1975: 3:2 (4. Sarafis, 88. Sarafis) - Attendance: 39,210 (After the game 500 Olympiakos fans attacked the bus carrying PAOK players injuring Pellios, Tsiligris, Sarafis and Paridis) 1973-1974: 3:0 - Attendance: 41,110 1972-1973: 1:0 - Attendance: 41,052 1971-1972: 1:1 (76. Apostolidis) - Attendance: 37,405 1970-1971: 1:0 - Attendance: 34,960 1969-1970: 1:1 (24. Afentoulidis) - Attendance: 40,000 1968-1969: 3:0 - Attendance: 21,116 1967-1968: 0:1 (32. Afentoulidis) - Attendance: 28,914 1966-1967: 3:2 (67. Afentoulidis, 80. Charalambidis) - Attendance: 40,250 1965-1966: 2:0 - Attendance: 28,042 1964-1965: 5:2 (41. Koudas, 80. Litopoulos) - Attendance: 15,951 1963-1964: 2:0ff - Attendance: 24,796 (Nea Filadelfia Stadium) (Olympiakos wins 2:0 on forfeit as PAOK abandoned the game in the 34th minute, when Bulgarian referee Rumencev did not call a penalty on a handball inside Olympiakos box) 1962-1963: 3:2 (5. Savvidis, 67. Giakoumis)) - Attendance: 24,170 1961-1962: 6:0 - Attendance: 18,000 1960-1961: 1:1 (90. Vasiliadis) - Attendance: 25,000 1959-1960: 1:2 (38. Leandros, 44. Havanidis) - Attendance: 11,972 Panhellenic Championship 1958-1959: 4:0 - Attendance: ? 1957-1958: 0:1 (3. Havanidis) - Attendance: ? 1956-1957: 4:0 - Attendance: ? 1955-1956: 0:0 - Attendance: 20,000 (Leoforo Alexandras Stadium) 1954-1955: 1:0 - Attendance: ? (Leoforo Alexandras Stadium) 1953-1954: 1:0 - Attendance: ? (Leoforo Alexandras Stadium) 1947-1948: 2:1 (16. Migoussis) - Attendance: ? (Leoforo Alexandras Stadium) 1936-1937: 2:0 - Attendance: ? (Leoforo Alexandras Stadium) 1935-1936: 4:3 (7. Kalogiannis, 22. Kalogiannis, 30. Vafiadis) - Attendance: ? (Leoforo Alexandras Stadium) 1931-1932: 2:3 (8. Kavourmatzis, 89. Papaiordanidis)- Attendance: ? (Neo Falyro Podylatodromio) 1930-1931: 3:1 - Attendance: ? (Neo Falyro Podylatodromio) Games played at G. Karaiskakis Stadium, except as noted. GAMES: 74 WINS: 12 TIES: 9 LOSSES: 53

I think the second goal by AEK should not count as there was offensive foul on Crespo. Also Livaja should have gotten a second yellow on the handball. However AEK took advantage of tragic mistakes by our defense. Agreed Vieirinha MVP of the game on his birthday.