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The ref forgot the cards in his pocket.

Matos Pelkas out Lyrstzis, Tzolis in

We are flirting with disaster

Last season he was quite poor. Was one of my favorite players. Will miss him, but if he was going to continue playing poorly it's better that he leaves.

OFI is very dangerous offensively. I hope we don't sit on the one goal lead or we will pay for it in the end. We could use couple more goals.

The number is there for catching people that are stealing the signal. If somebody is streaming the game illegally they can trace the person who is providing the signal to the pirates through that number.

Aparently Leo Matos came to an agreement with the coach and technical director and will remain on the team and will be utilized. Strangely this development is happening after the rumors that he might be joining AEK.

Looks like Kace and Siabanis will be signing with O Aris.

Our Europa League schedule: 22-OCT-2020, 19:55 EET: PAOK - Omonia 29-OCT-2020, 22:00 EET: Granada FC - PAOK 05-NOV-2020, 19:55 EET: PAOK - PSV Eindhoven 26-NOV-2020, 22:00 EET: PSV Eindhoven - PAOK 03-DEC-2020, 22:00 EET: Omonia - PAOK 10-DEC-2020, 19:55 EET: PAOK - Granada CF Couldn't ask for a better schedule.

- Crespo sustained a hamstring injury at practice. Will miss 20 days. - Unnamed player has tested positive for COVID 19 and is quarantined.

Apparently we will make some money since he still has 2 years left on his contract. PAOK is apparently asking for 500K to sell him.

UEFA doesn't care about smaller clubs/countries as long they are making money with CL As for the draw if we don't perform we will end up like we did couple years ago when we could not get past VIDI and BATE Borisov. Omonia will be a tough nut to crack from what I saw in the two games against Olympiakos. They will play the typical Greek school bus defense and we all know we have a hard time against such teams. I could see us winning the group, but we could also easily finish fourth.

Zorya is above Cluj because the Ukraine is above Romania in the country coefficient. I believe that is tie breaking criteria. Same applies to PAOK who has the same coefficient as Qarabag but our country's coefficient is higher than Azerbaijan. The UEFA site lists Zorya above Cluj: https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0261-106341da6bb8-749195e9c76b-1000--europa-league-group-stage-draw-all-you-need-to-know/?iv=true

AC Milan won 9:8 in penalty shootout Watch us get them from pot 3.

I would like Arsenal PAOK Macabi Tel Aviv CSKA Sofia If I can't get Arsenal from pot 1 than I'll take Celtic of Gent

The pots are as follows: POT 1 Arsenal London ENG 91.000 Tottenham Hotspur ENG 85.000 AS Roma ITA 80.000 SSC Napoli ITA 77.000 Benfica Lisbon POR 70.000 Bayer Leverkusen GER 61.000 Villareal ESP 56.000 CSKA Moscow RUS 44.000 Sporting Braga POR 41.000 AA Gent BEL 39.500 PSV Eindhoven HOL 37.000 Celtic Glasgow SCO 34.000 POT 2 Dinamo Zagreb CRO 33.500 Sparta Prague CZE 30.500 Slavia Prague CZE 27.500 Ludogorets BUL 26.000 Young Boys Berne SWI 25.500 Crvena Zvezda Beograd SER 22.750 Rapid Vienna AUT 22.000 Leicester City ENG 22.000 PAOK Thessaloniki GRE 21.000 Qarabag FK AZE 21.000 Standard Liege BEL 20.500 Real Sociedad ESP 20.456 POT 3 Granada ESP 20.456 AC Milan ITA 19.000 AZ Alkmaar HOL 18.500 Feyenoord Roterdam HOL 17.000 Maccabi Tel Aviv ISR 16.500 AEK Athens GRE 16.500 Glasgow Rangers SCO 16.250 Molde FK NOR 15.000 1899 Hoffenheim GER 14.956 Hapoel Beer Sheva ISR 14.000 Linzer ASK AUT 14.000 Zorya Luhansk UKR 12.500 POT 4 CFR Cluj ROM 12.500 OGC Nice FRA 11.849 Lille OSC FRA 11.849 NK Rijeka SLO 11.00 Dundalk IRL 8.500 Slovan Liberec CZE 8.000 Royal Antwerp BEL 7.580 Lech Poznan POL 7.000 Sivasspor TUR 6.720 Wolfsberger AC AUT 6.585 Omonia Nicosia CYP 5.350 CSKA Sofia BUL 4.000 What are your preferences?

Looks like miracle results happened. PAOK is officially in pot 2 for tomorrows draw. Not sure if that is good as there are some good teams in pot 3 that we will now have to face.

Unless the player come forward himself we will have a clearer picture who it is when the squad for the next game comes out.

We will need all the points we can get, because we will be losing the very productive season of 16/17 (8.000 points)

I don't disagree, but you have to be ready to play in the CL. We are not. And last two years we were not ready to even play in Europa League. I say this season go out and have a respectable showing in EL. Qualify from the groups stage and see how far you can go. Next season go to Conference and see if can make it to the quarterfinals or semifinals. Slowly build up before you tackle CL again.

I think so too, but not because he did not score on the penalty kick. Anybody can miss one. The reason I think he should move on is that he has not improved in the las couple years. He is still the selfish player that he was two years ago. Instead of passing the ball to a player in a better position he will dribble the ball to death and then lose it. On top of that he was made the team captain, which is a role I don't think he is suited for.

We might be able to. They have 2 teams left in the competitions and after tomorrow it's possible they will only have one. We are going to the groups stages with 2 teams and possibly 3. Serbia in 16th place has only one team left. Our teams will need to do well in the group stages. As for the Conference League i would not necessarily put the competition down. After all it might be an easier path to actually accomplish something in Europe. Something that no Greek team has never done as opposed to other countries. After all even teams such as Slovan Bratislava won an European title in the past.

Unless there are some miracles in tomorrows EL games, PAOK will be in pot 3, and will probably play one powerhouse (Roma, Napoli, Benfica) from pot 1, one team of our caliber (pot 2), and one weaker team (at least on paper) from pot 4. We should progress from the group stage and try our best in the knockout rounds.

I'll predict that we are not winning this game. The players mind will not be at the right place.

Luck was not on our side in this series. It ran out in the Benfica game. Had we scored first it would have been a different game. And then we don't get the lucky bounce on their goal. I don't think our goal was CL anyway. It just happened that we got lucky and were gifted the chance to play for it. And Rebbe scrambled to get players at the last minute to give us a fighting chance. Let's just regroup and have a decent showing in Europa League.