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If we play like we did last Sunday than yes they have a chance to eliminate us. Olympiakos did not play anything special in that game and got a win on a lucky bounce. Hopefully our players have some pride in them and will try to prove that the loss was a fluke. I don't see any favorites in this match-up.

The Olympiakos puppet in the government announced that all athletic events this weekend will go on as scheduled despite corona virus cases in Greece. However I would not be surprised if by Wednesday he will rule that all athletic events have to be held without fans being present.

Today at Superleague meeting there was a vote brought up by Olympiakos to expel PAOK and Xanthi from Superleague because we took EEA to political courts.. Olympiakos, Aris, Panionios and Larisa voted for relegation PAOK, Xanthi, Volos, Panaitolikos and Panathinaikos voted not to relegate PAOK and Xanthi AEX, OFI and Atromitos voted to send the matter to EPO disciplinary commision EPO and Tripoli abstained from voting Lamia did not show up.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – Olympiakos Piraeus COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Semifinal – Leg 1 DATE: 04-March-2020 TIME: 21:30 EET (19:30 UTC, 13:30 CST, 06:30 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: Estrada Fernandez Xavier - Alonso Fernandez Roberto, Sobrano Magan Teodoro (Spain) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport 1 (Greece), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) PAOK – Olympiakos Greek Cup history: 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 (Concensao) - 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: 28 WINS: 9 TIES: 6 LOSSES: 13 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 Finals against Olympiakos were played either in Athens or Piraeus.

For Ferreira to leave we will have to pay him close to six mil. With FFP, which prevented us to make any transfers in January that option is almost impossible. He will be our coach next season. Hopefully he will be able to have a say on what players to keep and acquire in the summer. That way he can build a team the way he wants. Lucescu really screwed the team last summer by quitting just 2 days before the pre-season training.

In order for a signing to be successful the player has to play. Stoch did not get any chances to play because the coach hates him. Stoch was a transfer made by George without asking the coaches opinion. Overall there is poor planning as far as transfers is concerned . Always has been. I think the big reason is that coaches are not consulted or have a say in the matter.

Championship was lost yesterday. We still have the chance to win the cup and we can pay back the most hated team in the whole country by eliminating them in the semis. Hopefully the PAOK players have some pride inside of them to accomplish the. The red menace is already pushing for our punishment so we won't have fans in the cup game next week.

VS MATCHUP: AO Xanthi - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague – Round 26 DATE: 01-March-2020 TIME: 19:00 EEST (16:00 GMT, 11:00 CST, 04:00 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Xanthi – Xanthi Arena (Capacity: 7,244) REFEREES: TELEVISION: ERT Sport HD (Greece), ERT World, ERT Sport HD Web Stream (worldwide) AO Xanthi – PAOK FC History: Superleague 2018-2019: 1:2 (Oliveira, Henrique) - Attendance: 6,558 2017-2018: 0:3 (own goal, Mak, Crespo) - Attendance: 2,876 2016-2017: 0:0 - Attendance: 1,959 2015-2016: 1:1 (Mystakidis) - Attendance: 1,952 2014-2015: 4:2 (Athanasiadis, Mak) - Attendance: 4,068 2013-2014: 1:2 (Katsouranis, Lino) - Attendance: 2,525 2012-2013: 0:3 (Athanasiadis (p), Robert, Lazar) - Attendance: 2,330 2011-2012: 0:0 - Attendance: 1,849 2010-2011: 1:0 - Attendance: 3,322 2009-2010: 0:3 (Vieirinha 2, Ivic) - Attendance: 1,457 2008-2009: 1:2 (Ivic 2) - Attendance: 2,546 2007-2008: 1:0 - Attendance: 2,139 2006-2007: 1:0 - Attendance: 3,860 2005-2006: 1:0 - Attendance: 6,410 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2004-2005: 0:2 (Maladenis, Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 3,335 2003-2004: 0:0 - Attendance: 7,052 2002-2003: 1:1 (Georgiadis) - Attendance: 7,421 2001-2002: 1:0 - Attendance: 2,795 2000-2001: 0:2 (Okkas, Frousos) - Attendance: 3,666 1999-2000: 1:2 (Nalitzis, Georgiadis) - Attendance: ? 1998-1999: 0:1 (Vryzas) - Attendance: (2,500 PAOK fans) 1997-1998: 2:2 (Kovac, Frantzeskos) - Attendance: ? 1996-1997: 1:1 (Frantzeskos) - Attendance: 3,475 1995-1996: 2:2 (Giokoudis, Lagonidis) - Attendance: 4,000 1994-1995: 3:0 - Attendance: 7,189 1993-1994: 5:2 (Luhovy, Havos) - Attendance: 2,607 1992-1993: 2:3 (Toursounidis 2, Alexiou) - Attendance: 4,225 1991-1992: 2:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: 3,131 1990-1991: 1:2 (Magdi, Anastasiadis) - Attendance: ? 1989-1990: 0:2 (Magdi, Borbokis) - Attendance: 10,793 GAMES: 30 WINS: 13 TIES: 8 LOSSES: 9

Also big mistake not starting Matos. And another thing. They had Tsimikas and we had Giannoilis who was poor. Also did not take advantage from any of our set pieces. We better wake up and save the 2nd place.

Did not deserve anything from this match. We did not create anything and in the end lost by a lucky goal.

0:1 final

Lambrou for Limnios

El Kaddouri in for Mauricio.

Akpom in for Pelkas

Did not count offside

Goal does not count

1:1

Giannoulis iwn goal

0:1

PAOK needs to pick up the pace in second half. We did not create a single chance. Olympiakos hit the post and played better in the last 10 minutes.

Almost 0:1

WTF is with those flares.

Not sure it was a good idea to piss off Matos.

The Greece - Costa Rica game is scheduled for March 26, 2020 at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. Kick-off time is 20:00 EDT.

I am sure that Vieirinha will start. It remains to be seen if he will play him instead of Matos as RB. I would not. I am also certain that Swiderski will start over Akpom. Also I would start Paschalakis over Zivkovic, but I don't think that will happen. My lineup then would be as follows: ------------------ Paschalakis ---------------------- Matos -- Ingason -- Varela -- Giannoulis ------------ Misic ------------- Mauricio ----------- Limnios----------------------------------- Vieirinha -------------- Pelkas -------- Swiderski -----------