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The new Chicago based owner turned this team around since he took over. Great to see the team doing well. I always had a soft spot for OFI.

Players picked for the game: Πασχαλάκης, Παπαδόπουλος, Μάτος, Ροντρίγκο, Ίνγκασον, Μιχάι, Γιαννούλης, Μιχαηλίδης, Βιεϊρίνια, Εσίτι, Ντόουγκλας, Μαουρίσιο, Μίσιτς, Ελ Καντουρί, Πέλκας, Μπίσεσβαρ, Λάμπρου, Λημνιός, Άκπομ, Σφιντέρσκι Varela out for 3 weeks due to injury.

Spanish ref for this game. He recently called the Real - Atletico derby in his homeland.

The draw results: Greece Slovenia Moldova Kosovo

George Savvidis is the reason why Lucescu quit!

I wonder what will Ferreira do to wake up the players and take this game seriously? I am afraid we are looking at a serious embarrassment on Wednesday.

How stupid can the technical staff be? We had two players on the verge of getting game bans if they got yellow cards (Augusto, Ingason). Well guess what? They both got yellows and in the play-offs Ingason will miss one game and Augusto 2 games. The worst thing is that the cards accumulated in the regular season get erased going into the playoffs. We will have serious issues on defense in the first playoff game. No Ingason or Crespo and possibly even Varela. And our two other CBs (Mihaj, Michailidis) have not played a single game yet.

This coach is clueless about the game as it is played on Greece. We are in danger of losing the second place as well. My prediction is that we will.

We are not winning this game.

Pathetic

Matos in for Varela

And now Varela seems to be injured

Xanthi is just better after we scored showing that they want it more.

Poor defense

Nice goal

Stream for the game: https://webtv.ert.gr/ert-sports-live/

2020 Indoor Championship Winners: MEN 1. Olympiakos 64 2. GS Kifisia 32 3. Panionios 22 WOMEN 1. GS Kifisia 67.5 2. GS Glyfada 46 3. Alexandros Makedonias 27

Is he playng Lambrou as "dekari"? As for RB, I am afraid as long as Matos does not sign a contract extension he will not see much action.

Let's just hope we don't change a coach just one day before training starts.

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.