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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

That would have been a beauty by Vieirinha.

Starting lineups:

Squad for tomorrow's game:

Marcos Antonio is apparently coming to Thessaloniki tomorrow. The deal is 1-year loan and we pay his 1 mil Euro salary. The buyout option is set at 6 mil Euro for 85%.

And the slide continues. Sakkari is on her way out of the top 10, and I don't see her returning back.

VS MATCHUP: O.F.I. - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Round 4 DATE: 03-September-2023 TIME: 20:00 EEST (17:00 UTC, 12:00 CDT, 03:00 AEST next day) CITY / STADIUM: Iraklio – Th. Vardinogiannis Stadium (Capacity: 8,150) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Prime Tel (Cyprus), Sport Plus (USA, Canada, Australia) O.F.I. vs. P.A.O.K. history: Superleague 2022-2023: 1:1 (Narey) - Attendance: 3,788 2021-2022: 1:3 (Swiderski, Kurtic, Augusto) - Attendance: 3,014 2020-2021: 0:3 (Tzolis, Varela, Krmencik) - Attendance: nf 2019-2020: 2:2 (Biseswar, Michailidis) - Attendance: nf (PLAYOFFS) 2019-2020: 0:1 (Misic) - Attendance: 5,807 2018-2019: 1:3 (Biseswar, Matos, Jaba) - Attendance: 5,186 2017-2018: Did not play in Superleague 2016-2017: Did not play in Superleague 2015-2016: Did not play in Superleague 2014-2015: 3:1 (Papadopoulos) - Attendance: 3,026 2013-2014: 1:1 (Necid) - Attendance: 5,193 2012-2013: 1:1 (Fotakis) - Attendance: 2,487 2011-2012: 0:2 (Giannou 2) - Attendance: 3,646 2010-2011: Did not play in Superleague 2009-2010: Did not play in Superleague 2008-2009: 0:2 (Antonio, Conceicao) - Attendance: 3,857 (2,500 PAOK fans) 2007-2008: 2:0 - Attendance: 2,540 2006-2007: 1:0 - Attendance: 3,032 2005-2006: 2:1 (Giasemis) - Attendance: 4,137 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2004-2005: 2:2 (Salpiggidis-p, Maladenis) - Attendance: ? 2003-2004: 0:3 (Salpiggidis, Giannitsanakis, Hagan) - Attendance: 2,725 2002-2003: 2:3 (Kafes, Okkas, Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 2,999 2001-2002: 4:1 (Georgiadis-p) - Attendance: 2,508 2000-2001: 0:0 - Attendance: 2,134 1999-2000: 2:0 - Attendance: ? (200 PAOK fans) 1998-1999: 3:2 (Vryzas, Konstantinidis) - Attendance: 2,507 1997-1998: 2:1 (Toursounidis-p) - Attendance: ? 1996-1997: 3:1 (Dimkovski) - Attendance: ? (NOTE: PAOK forgot their jerseys in Thessaloniki and played the game with jerseys borrowed from OFI) 1995-1996: 2:1 (Giakoudis-p) - Attendance: 2,477 1994-1995: 2:1 (Karasavidis) - Attendance: ? 1993-1994: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1992-1993: 4:0 - Attendance: 3,982 1991-1992: 1:1 (Anastasiadis) - Attendance: ? 1990-1991: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1989-1990: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1988-1989: 3:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: ? 1987-1988: 2:2 (Mavromatis-p, Mavreas) - Attendance: 5,902 1986-1987: 1:1 (Psarras) - Attendance: 10,918 1985-1986: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1984-1985: 3:1 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ? 1983-1984: 4:0 - Attendance: 5,024 1982-1983: 2:1 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: 4,914 1981-1982: 0:1 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ? 1980-1981: 0:2 (Vasilakos 2) - Attendance: 4,448 1979-1980: 2:1 (Sarafis-p) - Attendance: 4,839 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 1:1 (own goal) - Attendance: ? 1977-1978: 2:1 (Kermanidis) - Attendance: ? 1976-1977: 2:1 (Sarafis) - Attendance: 5,850 (played in Rethymnos) 1970-1971: 2:2 (Matzourakis-p, Sarafis) - Attendance: ? 1969-1970: 3:1 (Giakoumis) - Attendance: ? 1968-1969: 1:1 (Mitrakas) - Attendance: 7,302 GAMES: 46 WINS: 11 TIES: 14 LOSSES: 21 PAOK playing with borrowed jerseys from OFI in 1996-1997: https://youtu.be/KrcTqj8m0JI

NAME: Soualiho MEITE POSITION: Midfielder JERSEY NUMBER: 8 BIRTHDAY: 17-March-1994 BIRTH PLACE: Paris, France HEIGHT 1.87 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: Cremonese (loan), Benfica Lisbon, AC Milan (loan), AC Torino, Girodins Bordeaux (loan), AS Monaco, Zulte Waregem (loan), OSC Lille, AJ Auxerre, Vincennes, Gobelins CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2024 (on loan from Benfica Lisbon) SALARY: € 1,200,000 per season (buy out option € 4,000,000 for 70% of rights)

I believe we also owe 10% resale to Fortuna for Narey.

As always we make things hard for ourselves. It should have never come to an own goal by an outsider to win a game. We should have ended the game in first half and focus on Thursday's game.

Own goal but completely created by Konstantelias and Baba.

2:1