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PAOK women's handball team today won the Greek championship to go with Greek Cup which they won few weeks ago thus accomplishing the double just like the football team.

He is not a reporter. He is somebody that runs sports radio stations. He was the brains behind Radio Metropolis before he got fired. After several other failed radio projects he now runs the Sfina.g web site that includes a web radio. Usually what he does is float several speculations and when one actually comes out true then he brags how he had the inside scoop.

Great season indeed. The best ever that I witnessed.

Final score. 1:0 PAOK with a double.

6 minutes extra time.

Pelkas injured. Looks serious. Oliveira in

Limnios in for Jaba

Nice goal. And the first use of VAR in Greece.

Gooooooool

I would think he could use Canas as man to man on Livaja. And yes Giannoulis is better offensively.

Kind of surprised that Oliveira is not starting. However with the possibility that the game might go into extra time it will be nice option to throw in a fresh player with Oliveira's stature in the second half to gain the upper hand.

PAOK will play a friendly game on July 12 against Universitate Kluz in Romania. It's a game that will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Romanian team.

I have my doubts about Charisis, but he probably is better than the other two. Still I don't he has a place on the team that plans on playing in CL.

If your are going to consider bringing Charisis back, might as well consider Moulin and Kace. I think none of those three have place on the team anymore.

I think Lucescu will go with the following lineup tomorrow: ------------------ Paschalakis ----------------- Matos - Varela - Crespo - Giannoulis -------- Oliveira ------------- Shakhov ------ Limnios ------- Pelkas ------- Biseswar -------------------- Akpokm --------------------- BENCH: Papadopoulos, Lyratzis, Ingason, Canas, Jaba, El Kaddouri, Swiderski but I would prefer this lineup -------------Paschalakis ----------------- Matos - Varela - Crespo - Tosca -------- Oliveira ---------- Canas ------ Jaba ------- Pelkas ------- Biseswar ------------------ Akpokm ------------------ BENCH: Papadopoulos, Lyratzis, Ingason, Shakhov, Limnios, Henrique, Swiderski

The farce (thanks to incompetent government and EPO) that the final of the Greek Cup has become will be televised as follows: GREEK CUP - FINAL PAOK THESSALONIKI - AEK ATHENS OAKA STadium (without fans) GREECE: 20:30 EEST: COSMOTE Sport 1 HD (Live), 22:30 EEST: ERT Sport HD, ERT Sport HD Web Stream (Tape Delay) CYPRUS: 20:30 EEST: Cytavision Sport HD, Cytavision Sport 2 (Live) USA/CANADA: 12:30 CDT: Antenna Satellite (Live) AUSTRALIA: 03:30 AEST: Antenna Pacific (Live) WORLDWIDE: 17:30 GMT/UTC: laola1.TV web stream (Live) https://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestream/2019-05-11-paok-thessaloniki-fc-aek-athens-fc-len REST OF THE WORLD: 17:30 GMT/UTC: Arena Sport 5 (Croatia), Arena Sport 2 (Serbia, North Macedonia), SportKlub6 (Slovenia)

Unfortunately lost 2:0 to the Czechs.

Well I am sure not all 3,000 policemen will inside the stadium, but still it's laughable. In the meantime the team is already in Athens. All the healthy players traveled with the team and final squad will be determined before game time.

BATE was the weaker team in Europa League as well and was able to eliminate us from the competition. The good thing is that we will be starting the official games in August, which means we will gave more time to prepare.

3,000 policemen will be deployed for the Greek Cup final. They will watch over 900 people that will be present at the stadium in empty OAKA. That comes out to 3.33 policemen per person. Things are getting more bizarre each day ...

Ok. We are 99.9% sure to start in QR3 (August 6,7 / August 13). The 0.01% chance to start in QR2 is for Tottenham to lose in CL final and not finish 4th in Premier League. For that to happen they need to lose to Everton and Arsenal needs to beat Bournmouth and cover the 8 goal deficit, something quite impossible. In QR3 we will be unseeded are looking to face the following teams: Ajax or PSV Eindhoven (HOL) Celtic Glasgow (SCO) or a team that eliminates them in QR2 FC Copenhagen (DEN) or a team that eliminates them in QR2 Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) or a team that eliminates them in QR2 BATE Borisov (BLR) or a team that eliminates them in QR2 Astana (KAZ) or a team that eliminates them in QR2

Stupid Ajax blows it, conceding a goal in 95th minute. Unfortunately we will now find them in our path. Let's hope Liverpool beats Tottenham as there is still a chance we might have to start in qualifying round 2 in CL.

Matos and Giannoulis practiced with the team and will be available Saturday. Giannoulis has been a liability defensively so I am not sure if he will start. Myself I would prefer Tosca instead of Giannoulis. Matos is a must on the right side of defense. Also want to see if Canas gets a start over Shakhov.

Destroyed by Belgium (0:3). Final game tomorrow against Czech Republic. With a win we have a chance of qualifying.

Should be a nice final if it ends up being Liverpool - Ajax.