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The AEK goal should not have counted. The foul should have been called and a card delivered. AEK is getting away with murder. Vranjes should have been red-carded in the first half. Having said all that Larisa is a very bad team. They stand no chance of qualifying.

1:3 final. We are through to the final of the cup. Only by miracle or a roll of toilet paper can prevent that now.

WTF everybody just stands and watches Panionios corner and goal.

Shakhov in for Mauricio. Watch him score a goal.

Biseswar 3:0

Biseswar getting ready to come in.

Panionios close. We need a third one to cool them down.

Well I am sure Olympiakos will send the evidence to the league.

Halftime 2:0. One more in the 2nd half and then start resting key players.

Prijo 2:0 Nice cross from Azevedo.

Mauricio claims the goal, but it should belong to Limnios.

1:0 PAOK

82:18 possession for PAOK.

Pelkas playing without the mask for the first time.

I still believe only Stefanidi will medal, and I am not sure it will be gold. Her 4.83 m is only 4th best this year and we now have the Russian in the competition making things even more complicated. I give Filippidis sligh chance of cracking the top 3 but it will be very difficult. He will need to jump really well (over 5.90 m). Papachristou will also need to beat her best jump theis year (14.23 m) in order to finish in the top 5. As for the others I give Tentoglou and Karalis a slight chance to make the finals.

Incidentally today Garcia posted something on twitter that what happened at Toumba is no good for Greek soccer and that it punishes both teams, etc. Minutes later that post was deleted and his Twitter account was closed. Mark my words, he is counting days at Olympiakos.

There are a lot of issues that will need to be sorted out by the courts, and that will take time. I am sure there is other material that both teams have that are net being made public. There has to be video from stadium cameras that exists and that will clearly show he was not even hit by the paper. If PAOK can clearly show with evidence that he was not hit in the face by the paper, they should also sue him and Karapapas/Theodoridis in the courts for fabricating a fake accident. If we can do that I can see Garcia coming out spilling the beans that he was forced into it by Olympiakos officials.

AEK came out and asked the Undersecretary of Sports to suspend the Superleague season until all legal cases dealing with team punishments are closed and final. Sounds like to me they want to rest their players for their remaining games.

The Chinese offer apparently came on Sunday afternoon just hours before the game with Olympiakos. They offered 7 million Euro to PAOK and a 4-year deal to Prijovic worth 4 million per season. PAOK turned it down and immediately renegotiated the current contract with the player offering him more money (1.5 mil per season) and extending his contract until 2022.

More and more videos are surfacing on the net with the incident. After seeing this one I doubt the paper even hit his head. Looks like it hit his shoulder.

VS MATCHUP: Asteras Tripolis - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague - Round 24 DATE: 04-March-2018 TIME: 15:00 GR (13:00 GMT, 07:00 CST, 00:00 AEDT next day) CITY / STADIUM: Tripoli – Th. Kolokotronis Stadium (Capacity: 7,616) REFEREES: TELEVISION: novasports2 (Greece, Cyprus, Albania), Sport Plus (USA, Canada, Australia) Asteras Tripolis vs P.A.O.K. History 2016-2017: 1:2 (Koulouris 2) - Attendance: 1,960 2015-2016: 2:1 (Pelkas) - Attendance: 2,101 2014-2015: 1:0 - Attendance: 2,462 PLAYOFFS 2014-2015: 3:0 - Attendance: 2,449 2013-2014: 1:0 - Attendance: 1,845 (PLAYOFFS) 2013-2014: 2:1 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 2,351 2012-2013: 1:2 (Athanasiadis, Katsouranis) - Attendance: 2,634 (play-offs) 2012-2013: 1:0 - Attendance: 2,218 2011-2012: 1:0 - Attendance: 1,892 2010-2011: 0:0 - Attendance: 2,367 2009-2010: 1:1 (Fotakis) - Attendance: 2,500 2008-2009: 0:2 (Anastasakos, Conceisao) - Attendance: 2,092 2007-2008: 2:0 - Attendance: 3,685 GAMES: 13 WINS: 3 TIES: 2 LOSSES: 8

Hopefully PAOK players are focused on their game and not on what is happening outside the pitch. Now that they are rested they should go to Athens and secure the qualification to the cup final.

That's right. As long as we win all of our remaining 7 games we will be champions. There is also the possibility that AEK will drop points along the way as well. Nothing is over yet. Warda's tying goal might prove to be a golden goal for us.

There are a lot of issues that will have to be sorted out by the courts. Hope PAOK retains some good lawyers because this case will take a while to be sorted out.

Apparently the match doctor said there was nothing wrong with Garcia. The problem is that the ref did not start the game. And who would expect a member of Gate7 to do so.