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The Cypriot police has not given the OK yet for the Greek Cup final to take place in Nicosia. The initial indications are that the police will demand that only 1,000 tickets per team will be allocated for the game. They scheduled a meeting on April 20th to discuss details for the game and also confirm that the game willbe played in Cyprus.

Sadly it looks like this might have been El Kaddouri's last game for PAOK.

Time for 2nd stringers and 'B' team players to get some playing time before everyone digs into that delicious lamb on Sunday.

Koutsias is playing his first game in the MLS for Chicago Fire against Minnesota. He entered the game in the 74th minute as a sub.

2022 - 2023 Season: Round 19 (10.04.2023, 14:45 EEST - Dimotiko Stadio, Karditsa ) Anagennisi Karditsa - PAOK 'B' Thessaloniki TV: no coverage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2022 - 2023 Season: Round 16 (13.04.2023, 13:45 EEST - Makedonikos Stadium, Efkarpia) PAOK 'B' Thessaloniki - NFC Veroia TV: no coverage

And on Saturday, May 20 just one day before general elections in Greece. Each finalist is expected to get somewhere between 5,000 -7,000 tickets.

The list omits Ivan Savvidis, who is a Greek citizen and with his 1.7 billion fortune would be in 5th place among Greeks.

VS MATCHUP: PAOK Thessaloniki - PAS Lamia 1964 COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Semifinal – Leg 2 DATE: 13-April-2023 TIME: 17:00 EEST (17:00 UTC, 09:00 CDT, 00:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) PAOK – PAS Lamia Greek Cup History: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2022-2023: PAS Lamia – PAOK 1:5 (1. Narey, 25. Konstantelias, 62. Augusto, 67. Thomas, 69. Sastre) – Attendance: ? (Semifinal – Leg 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2020-2021: PAS Lamia – PAOK 1:1 (14. Ninua) – Attendance: nf (Quartefinal – Leg 2) 2020-2021: PAOK – PAS Lamia 5:2 (6. Tziolis, 16. Schwab, 67. Tzolis, 82. Rodrigo, 88. Krmencik) - Attendance: nf (Quartefinal – Leg 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1984-1985: PAS Lamia – PAOK 1:9 (7. Vasilakos, 15. Iordanidis, 36. Mavromatis, 50. Vasilakos, 52. Mavromatis, 54. Iordanidis, 70. Paprica, 75. Vasilakos, 86. Iosifidis) - Attendance: 3,424 (Round 3 – Leg 2) 1984-1985: PAOK – PAS Lamia 6:0 (12. Damanakis, 19. Paprica (p), 41. Dimopoulos, 65. Paprica, 74. Iordanidis, 87. Dimopoulos) - Attendance: 5,218 (Round 3 – Leg 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1971-1972: PAOK – PAS Lamia 2:0 (47. Koudas, 56. Apostolidis) - Attendance: 23,589 (Semifinal) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We didn't really deserve to get anything out of this game the way we played. We got lucky and scored first, but with such a poor effort and childish mistakes in second half it was quite easy for Olympiakos to turn the game around.

It's easily given in Greek Superleague. The matter is who it is against. I would bet 100 dollars if that was the other way around the ref would have awarded a penalty to Volos.

1. AEK 66 2. PAO 66 3. Olympiakos 63 4. PAOK 57 5. Aris 41 6. Volos 40 Third place is still a possibility, but I doubt it. Let's focus on the cup.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – NFC Volos COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Playoffs - Round 4 DATE: 09-April-2023 TIME: 20:30 EEST (17:30 UTC, 12:30 CDT, 03:30 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports Prime (Greece, Cyprus), Net TV Plus (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), Sport Plus (USA, Canada, Australia) PAOK - NFC Volos history: 2022-2023: 3:0 (Oliveira (p) Zivkovic, Augusto) - Attendance: 9,880 2021-2022: 4:4 (Zivkovic 2, Akpom, own goal, ) - Attendance: 7,607 2020-2021: 3:1 (Schwab, Ingason, Krmencik) - Attendance: no fans 2019-2020: 1:0 (Vieirinha-p) - Attendance: 11,995 GAMES: 4 WINS: 3 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 0

If Augusto made it 2:0 on the big chance we had we would be talking about a different result. At this point it's time to do major rotations in the playoff games and focus on the cup.

Complete self destruction in 2nd half

And now penalty 3:1

What a gift by Koulierakis

2:1 game over

1:1

0:1 halftime. Kotarski made some key saves in 1st half.

PAOK 1:0 Thomas

We are very lucky we are not down 2:0 bu now.

Way too many mistakes by PAOK players in the first minutes of the game.

Earlier today in playoff games: Volos - AEK 0:1 Clear handball by AEK player in 86th minute which should have been a penalty. What do you expect when the result of the game was predetermined during an earlier dinner:

Starting lineup:

I am afraid not. Only our Canadian friends are lucky as they have access to MEGA Cosmos which will show the game live.