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Let's see if the championship/cup winner team has any pride in themselves to come back from the disaster of the last 4 games to turn things around.

Yes he has time, but he needs players also. We have players over 30 years old (and some coming from serious injuries) in key positions. Panathinaikos today out ran us. They were beating us to the ball and we did not help ourselves with bad mistakes. Not sure we can last in the playoffs where we will play this kind o matches. There won't be any easy games. I want to see the player's reaction on Wednesday. Let's see if they have any pride left in themselves.

And to think we will play them twice in the next 10 days. Donis clearly outcoached Ferreira today. As yianko points there are issues within the team. Players yelling at each other after mistakes instead of playing with passion. Lucescu last season was able to bring the players together, something Ferreira can't do. Considering our record in derbies this season we are looking at elimination in the cup as well.

Ingason at fault for both goals.

Vieirinha needs to be subbed right away. Also all of PAO attacks are result of our poor passing and errors. We should be happy we are not losing. Also we should be happy Giannoulis did not get a red card in first half.

No goal. Hand ball.

You don't make mistakes like that with sends left in the game Giannouli.

That should have been a goal.

Don't like the lineup either. Hoping for a miracle.

Great display by the one and only true representative of Greek football. Completely destroyed Mbaougk and set the course straight to normality After all you can't have a team from Bulgaria or Turkey to keep winning titles. And if everything fails we will employ the government to pass laws in one night that will award the title to one and only team that deserves it: Olympiakos.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Panathinaikos Athens COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Semifinal – Leg 1 DATE: 05-Februaty-2020 TIME: 21:30 EET (19:30 UTC, 13:20 CST, 06:30 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: Sandro Scharer - Josipic Sladan, Zohaj Bekim (Switzerland) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport 1 (Greece), Cytavision Sports 6 (Cyprus), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) PAOK – Panathinaikos Greek Cup history: 2016-2017: SF – Leg 2: PAOK – Panathinaikos 4:0 (Pelkas, Matos, Shakhov, Prijovic) - Attendance: ? 2016-2017: SF – Leg 1: Panathinaikos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 10,000 2013-2014: FINAL: PAOK – Panathinaikos 1:4 (Vukic-p) - Attendance: 44,356 (OAKA Stadium) 2006-2007: QF – Leg 2: Panathinaikos - PAOK 3:1 et (Georgiadis) - Attendance: 23,747 2006-2007: QF – Leg 1: PAOK – Panathinaikos 2:1 (Konstantinidis, Mieciel) - Attendance: 13,924 1993-1994: R3 – Leg 2: PAOK – Panathinaikos 0:0 4:5 pen. - Attendance: 14,690 1993-1994: R3 – Leg 1: Panathinaikos - PAOK 0:0 - Attendance: 3,532 1990-1991: SF – Leg 2: PAOK – Panathinaikos 1:0 (Skartados) - Attendance: 25,918 1990-1991: SF – Leg 1: Panathinaikos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 18,607 1984-1985: SF – Leg 2: PAOK – Panathinaikos 4:0 (Siggas, Kostikos, Alexandridis, Karasavidis) - Attendance: 40,561 1984-1985: SF – Leg 1: Panathinaikos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 48,104 1981-1982: SF – Leg 2: PAOK – Panathinaikos 1:0 (Koudas) - Attendance: 38,774 1981-1982: SF – Leg 1: Panathinaikos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 24,000 1976-1977: FINAL: PAOK – Panathinaikos 1:2 (Terzanidis) - Attendance: 28,490 (Karaiskaki Stadium) 1972-1973: QF: PAOK – Panathinaikos 2:0 (Paridis 2) - Attendance: 38,869 1971-1972: FINAL: PAOK – Panathinaikos 2:1 (Koudas 2) - Attendance: 34,831 (Karaiskaki Stadium) 1970-1971: QF: PAOK – Panathinaikos 3:2 (Sarafis, Paridis, own goal) - Attendance: 28,830 1967-1968: QF: PAOK – Panathinaikos 1:2 et (?) - Attendance: 12,263 1954-1955: FINAL: PAOK – Panathinaikos 0:2 - Attendance: 6,729 (Leoforos Alexandras) 1950-1951: SF: PAOK – Panathinaikos 1:0 (Papadakis) - Attendance: ? 1948-1949: QF: PAOK – Panathinaikos 0:1 - Attendance: ? GAMES: 21 WINS: 9 TIES: 3 LOSSES: 9

Missing Crespo will be a big blow. Specially in the playoffs. It is also evident that the absence of El Kaddouri has impacted our game. I like pash's lineup above. The only change I would make is not start Vierinha. I would put him in the 2nd half to lift the team. My surprise start would be Lambrou instead of Vieirinha. The only other change I could see is Augusto for Esiti.

One time special on Phantis PAOK forums. My prediction 4:0 for Olympiakos with two penalties in favor of the best team ever in Greece.

Non-biased media does not exist in Greece, but out of the many sites available out there it is the one that is more believable than others. They even have Aris reporters, and until recently we could even read the great Xrysanthos articles there.

Name the place and time.

AEK disposed of Tripoli and is the 8th team to make the quarterfinals. The four quarterfinal games next week are: PAOK - Panathinaikos PAS Lamia - Olympiakos Atromitos - Aris Panaitolikos - AEK

Crespo still not ready and will not play.

I'll go for a beer with you anywhere you want. That will give you a chance to explain to me O'Aris's transfer strategy all these years.

sport24.gr is one of the is sites controlled by Marinakis interests. He owes over 80% of the media in Greece. Makes things easier to brainwash people that way. Nobody invested Savidis's money in PAE Xanthi. Distant relative of Savidis's wife purchased a resort that is in the vicinity of PAE Xanthi's training facilities. According to EPO's dual ownership laws in the books currently that person could have directly purchased Xanthi without any consequences. The Mitsotakis government fearing backlash from PAOK fans and the electorate base in Northern Greece hurried to pass a new law replacing relegation with point deductions. Never mind that this law can't be enforced until the next season and unless UEFA/FIFA approves it. Anyway day by day events slowly shows how EEA came to their recommendations. PAE PAOK needs to directly push the case through EPO courts, and eventually to CAS if it goes that far. If there really is PAOK's involvement with Xanthi than the relegation punishment should stand. One thing I remember right before the start of the season was Marinakis talking to the Olympiakos players and telling them that Olympiakos will win this year's title at any cost. Now we know what he meant.

Reports are now out that Olympiakos lawyers as well as the press spokesman for Lefteris Avgenakis (Secretary of Sports) met with one of the EEA committee members late at night just few days before they made their ruling. I wonder what were they discussing. Maybe they were they just having tea. There is no doubt in my mind that Olympiakos along with the government and with the help of their puppet teams conspired to manipulate the EEA to falsely accuse PAOK and Xanthi.

Refereeing trio from Azerbaijan to call this game.

With all the relegation saga we still have to field a team and play a very important game on Sunday. There is no doubt that the players are affected by the events. That was quite evident in Monday's game. There is a reason why the committee of puppets (EEA) released their ruling just minutes after the game against Volos has started. Their goal was first to influence the players, and then also hoping that 20,000 fans in the stands would cause trouble and PAOK would be punished. The players will need to concentrate on their game and do their best to get the best result. Also the coach needs to start playing players in their natural position and also use the players that are in form. This will be a very tough game.

The sad thing is that even if PAOK is innocent, we will still get punished. Except for the fans the team has no other support. Even the local politicians who depend on votes from the locals sided with their master who is controlled by the owner of Olympiakos. Let's not forget this whole issue is not directly about PAOK. It's a campaign to chase Savvidis out of Greece.

The trial is scheduled to start tomorrow, but I would not be surprised if it is postponed. Something that has been going on for the last 4 years. From what I understand if this drags until next year, the case will be dismissed.

Apparently we will play an away game against Holland on May 28. Still no news on the second friendly in the US which will be played on March 26. There is news that Olympiakos is complaining to EPO about the trip to the US and wants it cancelled.