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The captain is back:

Starting lineup: ------------ Zivkovic ------------- -- Ingason - Varela - Michailidis -- Matos ---------------- Giannoulis ------ Schwab ------ Esiti ------- --- Murg ------------ Zivkovic --- ----------- Colak ----------------

PAOK TV is presenting a video with all the PAOK goals in Europa League Group Stage games. There are some nice goals in this video. https://tv.paokfc.gr/vods/vod.248?fbclid=IwAR2l4V7BfdysNMiH4AXDcDS4c5_LUcAy3yo6lZ0iJo5Kum0n6KVlnp5pybc You need to login to your PAOK TV account in order to watch the 10 minute video.

It's one of Rey, Pereira or Jaba. I am leaning towards Jaba since he is known to frequent bars on late nights.

Vierinha will sign for one more year with PAOK tomorrow. George Savvidis's Instagram post points to that fact:

Ten (10) Aris players tested positive for COVID. Their game with Larisa this weekend was postponed.

Another positive COVID case at PAOK. My bet is on Jaba, with Rey and Pereira as the other possibilities. So far this season we have 5 positive COVID cases on the team: Stoch Warda Limnios Wague ?

The infected player did not impact the player list for the game. As for the lineup, I think Ninua will partner with Schwab and after we score couple goals (I hope) Esiti will come in. Actually I would like to see a 4-4-2 formation in this game with Colak and Swiderski as forwards, but I don't think we will see that as Ferreira was salivating over the 3 center back formation during his press conference today.

Why would we ship Augusto? He is a decent midfielder with a good shot. Would be a good back up on the bench. If Tsiggaras refuses to sign a contract extension as he is doing right now he might be history. Ninua is here to stay. You don't spend 800K just to ship him right away to another team.

New set of captains announced by PAE PAOK Crespo Matos Varela El Kaddouri Giannoulis I would think that Vieirinha will be added if and when he rejoins the team.

Basically what AEX played this past weekend. All Scottish crew as far as officiating the game is concerned. Hopefully the ref will not keep the cards in his pocked as did the German one on Sunday.

Yeah because he still wanted the 800K contract that was negotiated before his cancer diagnosis. PAOK tried to reach a new agreement with Sporting and Misic taking his illness into account. I think the Misic era at PAOK is now finished. The good thing is that the team did not risk close to 5 mil on the player that might not even play the game again. The bad thing is that we are now short a good midfielder on the roster.

I think we will have a hard time winning. I saw both games against Olympiakos and their defense is solid and we always have a hard time cracking the tight defensive formations.

I guess it all depends on his condition. It would appear that PAOK took a gamble and assumed that he would not be able to play at full abilities this season, and as such it would be counter productive to pay either 2 mil for the transfer and 800K in salary or even the 600K in case of a loan fee. Having said that it looks like Sporting found a team to take their player of their hands for the rest of this season. It was probably also the player's wish to go back to his homeland while he is recuperating from the bladder cancer.

Reports out of Croatia have Sporting Lisbon and Dinamo Zagreb agree on a one year loan of Misic until June 2021. We can for get about him for now.

Here is the list of players we have on loan to other teams for the 2020-2021 season: Lazaros Lambrou - Twente Enschede - contract expires June 2023 - buyout option € 4 mil Nikos Bourganis - Karaisakis AE - June 2022 Marios Tsaousis - Spartak Trnava - June 2022 - no buyout option Vasilis Fasidis - AO Xanthi - June 2022 Zisis Chatzistravos - PAS Lamia - June 2022 Antonios Gaitanidis - Levadeiakos - June 2022 Tasos Meletidis - Onisiros Sotira - June 2022

2,900 fans will be allowed for this game. On paper this is our easiest game in the groups stage and if we don't win it will most likely be the end of any chances we have to qualify from this group.

Unbelievable chance by Swiderski in the last seconds of the game.

Murg

1:1

Good first half for PAOK but instead of winning we are losing. Hopefully we can turn it around in second half.

goal did not count

Tzolis

1:1