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0:1 Major defensive lapse by Rey, Crespo and Leovac.

Penalty for Swedes

It's quite obvious the Swedes came in to play a double zone defense and hope for counters. Somehow we need to break their defense down and get that first goal.

The interesting fact is that the only Greek player on the pitch is not playing for PAOK!!!

Toumba looks pretty full 20 minutes before the game. I'd say around 18,000 people in the stands.

PAOK lineup: -------------------- Rey ------------------------- Matos - Varela - Crespo - Leovac ------- Cimirot --------- Shakhov------- Campos --- Biseswar -------- Mak ------------------ Prijovic -------------------- BENCH: Paschalakis, Malezas, Kosntantinidis, Pelkas, Kace, Henrique, Athanasiadis

Watching the pre-game on PAOK TV, they are showing this hot Swedish female trainer showing what exercises to do Ostersunds players.

Players selected for tomorrow's game: Πασχαλάκης , Ρέι , Λέοβατς , Κωνσταντινίδης , Μάτος , Βαρέλα , Κρέσπο , Μαλεζάς , Σάκχοφ , Τσίμιροτ , Κάτσε , Πέλκας , Μπίσεσβαρ , Κάμπος , Ενρίκε , Μακ , Πρίγιοβιτς , Αθανασιάδης Missing are the injured Canas, Deligiannidis, Leveque. Also Limnios and Koulouris

That should do the trick. You can always connect a laptop to the TV through an HDMI cable and watch it that way. That's what I used to do when PAOK games were on Laola1.TV.

The AEK and Panathinaikos games will be available on Laola1.TV. The PAOK game will be streamed on PAOK TV for 3.99 Euro. ESPN3 (USA) has the Olympiakos game today.

VS MATCHUP: Levadeiakos - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague – Round 1 DATE: 20-August-2017 TIME: 19:15 EEST (16:15 GMT, 11:15 CST, 04:15 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Levadeia – Dimotiko Stadio (Capacity: 6,500) REFEREES: Stavros Mandalos (Kavala) – Ioannis Toubakaris (Athens), Vasilios Karavasilis (Kavala) TELEVISION: novasports3 (Greece/Cyprus/Albania) Levadeiakos vs. PAOK History: Superleague 2016-2017: 0:1 (Pelkas) - Attendance: 1,074 2015-2016: 0:0 - Attendance: 676 2014-2015: 1:2 (Tzevallas, Pereyra) - Attendance: 1,377 2013-2014: 3:2 (Oliseh, Vukic) - Attendance: 1,554 2012-2013: 0:1 (Robert) - Attendance: 1,021 2011-2012: 4:3 (Athanasiadis 2, Ivic) - Attendance: 696 2009-2010: 0:2 (Ivic, Lino) - Attendance: 3,209 2008-2009: 0:3 (Conceicao, Sorlin, Ivic-p) - Attendance: 2,504 2007-2008: 2:0 - Attendance: ? Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2005-2006: 2:2 (Salpiggidis, Maladenis) - Attendance: 2,000 1994-1995: 0:1 (Gioukoudis) - Attendance: ? 1990-1991: 2:2 (I. Hassan, Lagonidis) - Attendance: ? 1989-1990: 1:1 (Skartados-p) - Attendance: ? 1988-1989: 2:1 (Small) - Attendance: ? 1987-1988: 4:2 (?) - Attendance: ? GAMES: 15 WINS: 6 TIES: 4 LOSSES: 5

The first one was for qualifying round. This one is playoffs, so I am not surprised they raised the price. Probably it had to do how many people ordered the first one. Supply and demand. If they end up showing their SL games on PAOK TV, I would hope they would stick closer to the 2 Euro per game price. I might pay 5 Euro for a PAOK - Gavros, but will definitively not pay the same amount for PAOK - Platanias.

No word yet if the EL game on Thursday will be available on PAOK TV. As for Superleague games. As it stands PAOK does not have a TV contract in place. On Friday there is an emergency Supeleague meeting to discuss the TV situation, so things might change then. If not, I expect the PAOK home games to be available on PAOK TV on subscription basis. The away games will depend if there is a deal reached with NOVA. In any case this weekend's Superleague games will be televised on NOVA channels in Greece, but next round apparently depends on Friday's negotiations.

Despite the lack of signed contract, all Superleague games this weekend will be televised by novasport in Greece. It's anybody's guess if the games will be available outside of Greece. However there is an emergency Superleague meeting on Friday where all the problems could be resolved.

We play Great Britain in two friendlies in London and them friendlies against Italy, Serbia and Georgia in Athens before travelling to Helsinki for the EURO.

It's obvious we are waiting to see if we make the group stage of EL first and also the results of the EPO elections on the 18th before we make any moves.

And apparently he had similar issues while at Agrinio, with rumors running rampant about his night life. Who ever brought him to PAOK did not do any back ground checks.

Warda needs to be set free without compensation and reported to FIFA. Instead we are again trying to find a team loan him. Some Egyptians we had on the team in the past were good (Magdi, Hassan Brothers), but we had couple that had a screw loose (Shikabala, Warda).

Not really. I don't believe in the farce called playoffs.

Should be like last season. Win the first two games and then play the "kids" in the last game.

That's also the last time a PAOK coach lasted more than one season.

PAOK's schedule: September 19-21, 2017: PAOK - Levadeiakos (no fans) October 24-26, 2017: Apollon pontou - PAOK November 28-30, 2017: winner Aiginiakos/Veroia - PAOK

After the Ivic fiasco, it was clear that Michel wanted Lucescu. The fact that Michel and Lucescu's father have very good relations point to that fact. Unfortunately Savvidis hearing that a lot of PAOK fans didn't like Lucescu stepped in and listened to Vukic. This probably did not make Michel very happy. This most likely did not sit well with some of the players as well. Specially the ones that were brought in by Michel. Lucescu is not a bad coach. He also knows the reality of playing in Superleague. Just like Ivic did. Only time will tell if he has to take us that one step further. I expect players to come out and show the aggressiveness they lacked under Stanojevic. I also expect 2 to 3 transfers to be announced by Michel very soon. P.S. Still waiting for the time, when PAOK will have the same coach for more than one season.

Good luck to Kyriazis, but unless he beats his PB of 88.01m he stands no chance of getting a medal. After that the only Greek athletes competing will be our walk racers in 20 km (men and women) on Sunday.

The time for the Brugge - AEK game should be 21:00..