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Biseswar getting ready. He'll get the equalizer.

Good save by Paschalakis.

Prijo in for Shakhov

For Pelkas.

Warda to come in finally.

What Lucescu waiting for? Make some changes.

Well that, but also managed to slip in few sarcastic comments in there. My moto is if you can't say something nice, keep you mouth shut. I am pretty sure the Greek commentary on COSMOTE is much worse.

I hope you are joking.

Pelkas experiment was a failure. Also add Vieirinha as being tragic. Let's hope Lucescu makes some badly needed changes right away. Let's keep the score respectful. It could have easily be 0:5. Finally, these such a big difference in quality between the two teams.

Paschalakis is a liability in this game.

We can't even keep the ball when we get control. Our players are scared shitless out there.

Almost 0:2

Vierinha's mistake

Just like that 0:1

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – Aris Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Group Stage – Round 1 DATE: 26-September-2018 TIME: 19:00 EEST (16:00 GMT, 11:00 CDT, 02:00 AEST next day) CITY / STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Dodekanesa) - Polychronis Kostaras (Aitolokarnania), Iordanis Aptosoglou (Athens) TELEVISION: Cosmote Sport TV (Greece, Cyprus), Antenna Satellite (USA/Canada), Antenna Pacific (Australia), Laola1.TV (worldwide) PAOK – Aris Greek Cup history: 2008-2009: Aris - PAOK 0:0 (8:9 pen.) - Attendance: 12,444 (Round of 16 – Leg 2) 2008-2009: PAOK - Aris 0:0 - Attendance: 14,870 (Round of 16 – Leg 1) 2002-2003: Aris - PAOK 0:1 (Georgiadis) - Attendance: 18,703 (Final) – (Toumba Stadium) 2000-2001: PAOK - Aris 2:0 (Koulakiotis, Ekgomitis) - Attendance: 18,564 (Round of 16 – Leg 2) 2000-2001: Aris - PAOK 1:1 (Ekgomitis) - Attendance: 9,325 (Round of 16 – Leg 1) 1984-1985: Aris - PAOK 3:1 () - Attendance: 14,639 (Round of 32 – Leg 2) 1984-1985: PAOK - Aris 2:0 () - Attendance: 23,827 (Round of 32 – Leg 1) 1979-1980: PAOK - Aris 2:0 aet (Sarafis, Vasilakis) - Attendance: 34,641 (Quartefinal – Leg 2) – (Kaftanzoglio Stadium) 1979-1980: Aris - PAOK 1:0 - Attendance: 24,763 (Quartefinal – Leg 1) 1977-1978: Aris - PAOK 0:1 aet (Orfanos) - Attendance: 22,900 (Semifinal) 1971-1972: Aris - PAOK 1:2 (0:2 forfeit) (Apostolidis 2) - Attendance: 13,919 (Quartefinal) – (Game was abandoned in 85th minute due to Aris fans attacking the referee and PAOK was awarded a 2:0 win) 1969-1970: Aris - PAOK 1:0 - Attendance: 46,695 (Final) – (Kaftanzoglio Stadium) 1961-1962: Aris - PAOK 1:1 (Vasiliaids) - Attendance: 2,062 (Round of 16 - Replay) (Aris won the coin toss to qualify) 1961-1962: PAOK - Aris 1:1 aet () - Attendance: ? (Round of 16) 1957-1958: Aris - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: ? (Round of 16) 1951-1952: Aris - PAOK 1:0 - Attendance: ? (Round of 16) 1950-1951: PAOK - Aris 4:2 aet (Mouratidis 4) - Attendance: ? (Quarterfinal) 1949-1950: Aris - PAOK 3:1 (Vasiliadis) - Attendance: ? (Quartefinal - Replay) - (Sindrivani Stadium) 1949-1950: PAOK - Aris 3:3 aet (Tzinopoulos, Emmanoulidis, Mouratidis) - Attendance: ? (Quarterfinal) 1947-1948: PAOK - Aris 2:5 () - Attendance: ? (Round 2) 1939-1940: Aris - PAOK 1:0 - Attendance: ? (Quartefinal - Replay) - (Iraklis Stadium) 1939-1940: PAOK - Aris 1:1 aet () - Attendance: ? (Quartefinal) GAMES: 22 WINS: 7 TIES: 7 LOSSES: 8 All games played either at Toumba/Syndrivani Stadium or Harilaou Stadium unless otherwise noted.

Same ref that called Dortmund - PAOK 0:1 and AEX-Rijeka 2:2.

Which would also point to the fact that the Prijo injury was fake and that Lucescu is going to use Karelis/Akpom in the rotation against Aris. My lineup for tomorrow: -------------- Paschalakis ------------------- Vieirinha - Varela - Crespo - Tosca Mauricio ---------------- Wernbloom Jaba -------- Pelkas ----- El Kaddouri ------------------- Prijovic ---------------------

My biggest worry is injuries and provocations for our players to be carded. After all on Sunday after that game we play against the team that is financing them.

It's the new team that was created by one of the biggest crooks in Greek football Achilleas Beos who convinced some village team near Volos to change their name and claim Volos as their home city.

Nice little video from PAE PAOK with behind the scenes footage from our European games so far this season.

B/R Live as pash mentions is probably the best option. If you have a decent cable TV provider than you might have access to Uni MAS, which will also be showing the game. Uni MAS TV is also available over the air in major cities in the US: In Miami it is on channel 69 WAMI In Boston it is on channel 66 WUTF In Chicago it is on channel 60 WXFT I can provide additional cities. Just ask.

The bad thing is that the game with Aris is next week (probably Sep. 26) and falls in between the SL games against AEX and Olympiakos. Since this game is pretty much meaningless I would do a big rotation in that game preventing injuries and certain red cards to key players.

The draw for the group stage of the 2018-2019 Greek Cup takes tomorrow. PAOK is seeded as one of the top 8 teams. Each of the 8 groups will include 2 SL teams. The remaining teams will be the teams that qualified from the qualifying rounds. In the group stage the SL teams will play one home game and 2 away games. SEEDED TEAMS: PAOK, AEX, Olympiakos, Atromitros, Asteras Tripoli, AO Xanthi, Panionios, Panaitolikos REST OF SL TEAMS: PAS Giannina, Levadeiakos, Panathinaikos, Larisa, Lamia, Apollon Smyrnis, Aris, OFI THE REMAINING 16: Football League teams: Irodotos, NPS Volos, Ergotelis, Iraklis, Aititos Spata, Kerkyra, Apollon larisa, Apollon Pontou, Panahaiki Patra, Kissamikos, Trikala 3rd Division teams: Niki Volos, Aris Avatou, Ierapetra, Apollon Paralimni, Thyella Kamariou

I would hope he sits this one out and be ready for AEX.

You might be right. This upcoming weekend games, PAS Giannina against Aris is on Antenna. Also for Round 5, OFI against AEK is on Antenna, even though OFI's past home games were on Sport Plus.