Dutch Eagle

The draw of the US Open was made and Maria Sakkari, #94 on the world ranking, will face Kiki Bertens of The Netherlands (seeded 24th and #25 on the world ranking) in the first round. The US Open starts this Monday.

August 23rd: Greece - Georgia 71-72 August 24th: Greece - Italy 73-70 AET (64-64 after 4 Quarters) Today: Greece - Serbia

KS Vllaznia - PAOK 0-1 with the winning goal in '90+3, a penalty scored bij Gatsou. Other results sofar: SFK 2000 Sarajevo - KS Vllaznia 0-1 SFK 2000 Sarajevo - Bettembourg 3-0 Table after MD 2: PAOK 2-6 Vllaznia 2-3 SFK 2000 2-3 Bettembourg 2-0

Apollon survived in Denmark. 1-1 and now to GS of EL. Bravo sas!

Congratz to AEK.

What to do now on Thursday-evenings?

You are right, Blackhawk. Biseswar is the only one playing with brains.

Xeftila. We don't even try or want to play today. It is like the players are on strike.

And 2-0

We are very lousy today. We need just one good moment. Shaky last 20 minutes....

And there is the 1-0. 2-3 aggregate.

Good shot Prijovic.

Slavia - APOEL 0-0 and APOEL in GS CL. The draw today was tough: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham.

The return ended in 0-0. And this ends AEK's European season. My 70%-30% was right. Unfortunatelly.

Hahahaha. Prijovic is wearing gloves. In August. Matos too.

Rey is weak on those kind of balls. He needs to improve on that.

Thanx. Stream works fine for me.

Things got more complicated as Copenhagen was kicked out of CL by Qarabag, and were "relegated" to EL. We need 5 upsets now to go to pot 1, assuming we qualify (no doubts for me, though). I think we should stop "dreaming" of pot 1 from now as 4 was already very unlikely, as @kozi mentioned before.

The Gavros reached GS of CL after a win away in Croatia. Good for us for three reasons: a) Greece gets points for the coefficient; b) Croatia does not get points (now); c) we don't have to split the TV-Revenues of EL with them.

Varela is indeed, Pash. He is called up for Cape Verde for the two qualifiers against South Africa in group D in the African zone.

First win in the pocket: PAOK - Bettembourg 8-0. Τα κορίτσια του Αλέξη Τασούλη ήταν καταιγιστικά και έδειξαν ότι μπορούν να πάρουν την πρωτιά στον όμιλο και να προκριθούν στους 32 του θεσμού. Εντυπωσιακή ήταν η Δήμητρα Παντελιάδου που έκανε χατ τρικ πετυχαίνοντας τρία γκολ (51’, 75’ και 88’). Από δύο τέρματα είχαν οι Ντιμιτρίγεβιτς (7’, 61’) και η Βαρδαλή (11’, 72’) και ένα είχε η Μπράμε (49’).

Östersund - AIK 0-3. Red card (2 yellows) Curtis Edwards. They stayed at 29 points, now after 20 games. Position #8 in the league now.

Thanx, Boxou. Could not find anything on the net. Not even on the 'official' sites.

Yiannis Antetokounbo is OUT of the Eurobasket. He has an knee-injury. Greece beated Great Britain today with 84-88. The scheduled match for yesterday was not played. Do not know why, but could be because they will face each other again in World Cup qualifiers in November 2017 and February 2018.

Klaus wanted to wear our jersey for the very last time, but just read on inpaok.com that he is out of the squad as he flies to Israel tomorrow. No replacement for him in the squad announced yet.