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Apollon - Saburtalo 5-1. Bagali Dabo scored 3 goals. Diguiny and Giannotas one each. Draw is on Monday. Apollon is seeded but could face a club like Aris, OFI, IFK Göteborg (Sweden) or Servette (Switzerland) if it is unlucky.

Yesterday APOEL played away against Gjilani. 0-1 Efrem 0-2 Ndongala Monday August 31st the draw will reveil the next opponent for Q2.

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Johnny van 't Schip invited Tzolis for the Ethniki's games in the Nations League. Giannoulis, Michailidis, Paschalakis and Limnios are invited too. Pelkas was not invited dispite his good game yesterday.

Bravo Omonoia. Congratz Omonoia9! This is a result that counts in Europe.

Yep

Game could or rather should have ended 5-2 of 6-3. Akpom missed a penalty. And we (just like Besiktas) did not score some very good chances.

I think the software update failed and everything was restored as it was just before that update.

Draw for CL Q3 is Monday August 31st. Only 1 leg. First drawn club plays at home. We are unseeded. The seeded teams are: Benfica, Dinamo Kyiv and AA Gent. I would rather not have Benfica again. So for for me one of the other two. The draw for CL Q4 (or officially PO) is made on september 1st. Benfica and Dinamo (or their conquerors) are seeded, Gent (or the conqueror) and Krasnodar are unseeded. There is a restriction: The Ruski's can not be drawn with the Ukrainian side due to the tensions between the two countries. So the paring is Benfica-Krasnodar and Dinamo-Gent or their conquerors. There will be two legs in PO. Draw determines who plays home first.

All posts of the last few hours are deleted/gone. For those who do not know the result yet: we won 3-1. Up to CL Q3!

18 players for our game and three subs. A fourth if there is extra time. Yesterday the teams were allowed five subs but they did just use only four. Also good to mention that there will be NO - I repeat NO - VAR tomorrow.

Why a squad of only 18 players and three subs during the game? Makes no sense in these crazy times with players that had just a few days off after the last game of last season and the first training in the new.

Can you believe this??!!! Pontus Wernbloom was in the squad of IFK Göteborg and was subbed in in '58 as the score was 1-1 against reigning champion Djurgården. FT 2--2, btw.

Youngster Koutsias and PAOK extended their contract till (the summer of ?) 2023. https://www.paokfc.gr/nea/20200821-koutsias-2023/

UEFA has appointed Daniele Doveri from Italy to lead this game. He was the ref at Vikelidis when we won there 1-2 in the year of the double.

Vrakas is back from his spell at Napoli. The 18 year old - tomorrow 19- signed a three year contract: https://www.paokfc.gr/nea/20200816-epistrofi-ston-paok-gia-vraka/

Unfortunatelly not recognized: https://www.xalkidikipolitiki.gr/2020/08/14/skandalo-anagnorizetai-to-neo-pagkosmio-rekor-tis-tzengko/

We can watch the game on PAOK TV. Price TBA. I expect it to be € 7,99.

After a few years being busy in the Champions League qualifiers APOEL now has to start from Round 1 in the Europa League qualifiers. APOEL has drawn an away game against the winner of the preliminary round-match between Tre Penne (of San Marino) and Gjilani (of Kosova). The match will be played on Thursday August 27th. Kick-off and venue TBA.

In the first qualifying round of the Europa League Apollon faces Georgian side Saburtalo. The match - Due to COVID-19 there will be just one game instead of the usual home and away games - will be played on August 27th in the GSP Stadium of Nicosia/Lefkosia.

The game will be played in the FFA Academy Stadium of Yerevan at 18:00 EEST. The winner will play away on August 25th or26th against the winner of the tie Legia Warszawa (POL)/ winner CL PR (Drita (KOS)/Linfield (NIR)).

Misic will play another year as a loanee at us. Again with an option to buy him.

During the last minutes of the game the reporter said PAOK want to play two more friendlies. And also that it is difficult to find opponents as 1. travelling abroad is difficult for us but also for foreign teams, and 2. most Greek teams are yet to start their pre season training.

Indeed. Whar I also like is the fact that ever since the goals of OFI in the first half we have played 6.5 games without conceeding a goal.