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PAOK Women's team plays Racing Union tomorrow (6.9.23 19:00 EEST) in the semifinal game of Group 9 in UEFA Women's Champions League. The game will be streamed live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESnz5r2-ryQ

Yeah but it would have been great going into the break with 9 points and then welcome our town rivals at Toumba after the break.

We never had a chance to win this match as we did not create any scoring chances. As usual in one of the counter attacks they score. Game over. Needless to say we should have had a penalty kick in 1st half, and OFI should have played with 10 players from the middle of the first half. The way we played though we did not deserve to win this one.

0:0 half time We hardly created any chances to score. OFI had three decent chances. At least 1 red card should have been given to OFI players.

OFI coming close twice to score. We need to improve passing game.

Let's see how lucky we are with our new white jerseys.

1:1 final score. Agrinio snatched a point in injury time.

Despotov is apparently done deal. He's coming to Thessaloniki tomorrow. 3.5 mil to Ludogorets, 1 mil contract for 4 years.

Looks like the Greek national team officials and coaches are back at their old tricks, where call ups are based on who controls EPO and who the player agents want to be called up. For that reason Poyet has not called up the player that is at his top form lately and is one of the biggest Greek talents. I am talking of course about Konstantelias who was not called up for the two upcoming games against Holland and Gibraltar. Koulierakis was the only PAOK player called up, but I am certain that he will sit on the bench, so 35-year old Tzavellas can get a start.

Final number for season tickets for this season: 11,120 Last season we sold 10,058 so a slight increase in numbers.

NAME: Marcos Silva Santos ANTONIO POSITION: Midfielder JERSEY NUMBER: 88 BIRTHDAY: 13-June-2000 BIRTH PLACE: Pocoes, Brazil HEIGHT 1.66 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: SS Lazio Roma, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, GD Estoril Praia, Athletico Paranaense CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2024 (on loan from Lazio Roma) SALARY: €

Marcos Antonio 1-year loan from Lazio Roma officially announced by PAOK.

So no Ozdoev again in the away game against Aberdeen. This will be the 2nd time we will face Eintrach Frankfurt. They eliminated us 4:5 on penalty kicks back in 1981 in Cup Winners Cup. 0:2 away, 2:0 at Toumba.

Eintracht Frankfurt PAOK Thessaloniki HJK Helsinki FC Aberdeen

The top seeded club. That's why we needed to be among the top 8 in the seedings.

And the draw results are: Eintracht Frankfurt PAOK Thessaloniki HJK Helsinki FC Aberdeen

I want Ferencvaros in our group as I will be in Budapest in October. Would be nice if PAOK played in Budapest around that time.

Here are the group seedings: GROUP 1 Eintracht Frankfurt GER 77,000 Dinamo Zagreb CRO 55,000 Club Brugge BEL 54,000 AZ Alkmaar HOL 47,500 AA Gent BEL 37,500 Fenerbahce Istanbul TUR 30,000 Lille OSC FRA 30,000 Ferencvaros Budapest HUN 27,000 GROUP 2 PAOK Thessaloniki GRE 25,000 Slovan Bratislava SVK 24,500 Maccabi Tel Aviv ISR 24,000 Viktoria Plzen CZE 22,000 Aston Villa ENG 21,914 Ludogorets Razgad BUL 21,000 Bodo Glimpt NOR 20,000 Fiorentina ITA 20,000 GROUP 3 KRC Genk BEL 18,000 Zorya Luhansk UKR 16,000 Besiktas Istanbul TUR 14,000 FK Astana KAZ 14,000 Legia Warsaw POL 11,000 HJK Helsinki FIN 11,000 Spartak Trnava SVK 10,500 Olimpija Ljubljana SLO 9,000 GROUP 4 Zrinjski Mostar BIH 8,500 FC Aberdeen SCO 8,000 KI Klaksvik ICE 8,000 FK Cukaricki SER 6,475 FC Lugano SWI 6,335 Breidablik ICE 6,000 FC Nordsjaelland DEN 5,565 FC Ballkani KOS 3,000

Even if Legia wins we will be in 9th place in the rankings.

None of the deciding games went our way today, so just barely we end up in group two in the seedings for tomorrow's draw. Some of he games came very close (Alkmaar advancing on penalties, Lille in extra time).

He is just following in Maria's footsteps. He'll be be out of the top 10 ranking sometimes by next year.

3:0 Konstantelias

Easy afternoon at Toumba for PAOK so far. I expect couple more in 2nd half.

2:0 Brandon

1:0 Taison