Dutch Eagle

Markovic with a penalty: 0-1!

Considering the opponent a good result but not enough to get in the play-off of EL. Too bad BAS (the Belgian CAS) decided that KV Mechelen (or Malin as it is better known in Greece and probably Cyprus too) could stay in the first tier but was not allowed to play European football, as a punishment for matchfixing. Gent, the highest ranked club that did not qualify for Europe, and with a coefficient of 29.500 a big shot in EL, got the berth instead.

FT 0-2. Goals Mantalos and Livaja. Good for the Greek coefficient.

At the end hammered with 5-0. Did not expected this. Thought that the Norwegian ladies were the ones to battle with for the progress to the next round.

Indeed. APOEL must score at least twice in Azerbaijan. Very difficult job.

For me Varela was. Did not pass a ball to another PAOKtzi. And tragic with the second goal. Should have bent backwards and shoot skyhigh instead of low at the ground. That is lesson one as a defender. I'm disappointed. Two cheap goals was the only way to score for them.

Pumped Alania! Going to watch it at the Sindesmo here in Ko.

UEFA decided that Craiova must play three games without fans and gave them a fine of 60K. Craiova asked UEFA to serve this ban after the AEK-game as they already sold tickets for this game.

Tsitsipas made it to the semi in Washington (and lost to Nick Kyrgios) and was rewarded with #5 at the ATP ranking that was released today.

20/21 and 27/28 Aug. for the CL. 22 and 29 Aug. for the EL.

Our squad for tomorrow: Πασχαλάκης, Ζίβκοβιτς, Μάτος, Ροντρίγκο, Γιαννούλης, Κρέσπο, Βαρέλα, Ίνγκασον, Εσίτι, Αουγκούστο, Μίσιτς, Ελ Καντουρί, Πέλκας, Λημνιός, Μπίσεσβαρ, Ζαμπά, Γαϊτανίδης, Στοχ, Άκπομ, Σφιντέρσκι Skise tous, PAOKARA MOU! Varethika na me kanoun plaka oi filoi kai sinadelfi mou.

Slovan Bratislava or Dundalk in EL if we lose. First away; second leg in Toumba.

SOLD OUT !!

If we win against that Dutch side we will face the winner of APOEL vs Qarabag. First match away. Second in Toumba.

Taxiarchis Fountas (former AEK, RB Salzburg, Asteras Tripolis and Panionios player) moved this summer from St. Pölten to Rapid Vienna. He scored today the first goal of the season for Rapid (first (home)game lost to RB Salzburg 0-2) against the club he just left: 0-1. BTW FT was 2-2.

We will have a ref from Slovenia: Slavko Vinčić.

And Pavlidis with his second of the night. After a owngoal for PEC he scored the 1-3 at 72'.

Dimitris Diamantakos pulling one back for St. Pauli against Greuter Fürth in the 2. Bundesliga: 1-2 trailing at home at HT.

Today is the start of a new season in the Dutch Eredivisie. First match is PEC Zwolle vs Willem II. HT there and Vangelis Pavlidis scored the equalizer just before the break. Vrousai was also in the starting eleven.

If we lose we wil continue in EL. Uefa has divided the teams in two subgroups. We are in group 2 and will avoid Ivic’s Maccabi for instance. GROUP 2 Seeded (teams eliminated from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round champions path) Match 1: APOEL (CYP) / Qarabağ (AZE) Match 2: PAOK (GRE) / Ajax (NED) Match 3: Maribor (SVN) / Rosenborg (NOR) Unseeded (UEFA Europa League third qualifying round champions path winners) Winner match 1: Sutjeska (MNE) / Linfield (NIR) Winner match 2: Ludogorets (BUL) / The New Saints (WAL) Winner match 3: Sarajevo (BIH) / BATE Borisov (BLR) Winner match 4: Astana (KAZ) / Valletta (MLT) Winner match 5: Slovan Bratislava (SVK) / Dundalk (IRL) You might notice that there are more unseeded than seeded teams. This means that from each group two unseeded teams are “lucky” and will draw each other.

On Monday the draw will take place for the play-off for CL at 13:00 EEST. Champions path Seeded teams: PAOK (GRE) / Ajax (NED) CFR Cluj (ROU) / Celtic (SCO) Crvena zvezda (SRB) / København (DEN) GNK Dinamo (CRO) / Ferencváros (HUN) Unseeded teams: Young Boys (SUI) APOEL (CYP) / Qarabağ (AZE) Slavia Praha (CZE) Maribor (SVN) / Rosenborg (NOR) This is in case we win against the “Evreoi”.

Might as well be Hungarian side Honved. Romanian supporters threw flares and one of this hit the ref after 120 of playing. After a long debate with officials and observers the fourth official replaced the ref and restarted the game with the necessary penalties. Or they have to play without fans. Some punishment one way or the other will be given by UEFA for sure.

Austria, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Denmark, Cyprus and Scotland already lost a participant. Croatia and Serbia two participants. There will be more blood shedded in Q3 as some clubs from the countries close to us have to face each other, like: Austria Wien - Apollon Limassol; Rijeka - Aberdeen; Partizan - Yeni Malatyaspor; Mityulland - Rangers; Sparta Prague - Trabzonspor. And some clubs have opponents like Braga, Spartak Moscow or Espanyol.

After Q2 of 2019/2020 we have: 10 Turkey 6.600 9.700 6.800 5.500 1.100 29.700 5/ 5 11 Austria 3.800 7.375 9.750 6.200 1.000 28.125 4/ 5 12 Netherlands 5.750 9.100 2.900 8.600 0.600 26.950 4/ 5 13 Czech Republic 7.300 5.500 5.500 6.500 0.500 25.300 4/ 5 14 Denmark 5.500 8.500 5.250 4.875 1.125 25.250 3/ 4 15 Cyprus 3.000 5.500 7.000 6.125 2.375 24.000 3/ 4 16 Greece 5.400 5.800 5.100 5.100 1.000 22.400 5/ 5 17 Croatia 4.500 5.125 5.125 5.750 1.000 21.500 2/ 4 18 Serbia 4.250 2.875 6.375 6.000 1.875 21.375 2/ 4 19 Scotland 3.000 4.375 4.000 6.750 3.000 21.125 3/ 4 20 Switzerland 5.300 4.300 6.500 3.900 0.600 20.600 5/ 5

These players are allowed to be fielded this game: Οι 25 παίκτες της λίστας Α είναι οι: Πασχαλάκης, Ζίβκοβιτς, Μελίσσας, Βαρέλα, Κρέσπο, Μιχάι, Ίνγκασον, Γιαννούλης, Μάτος, Ροντρίγκο, Εσίτι, Μίσιτς, Αουγκούστο, Ελ Καντουρί, Κάτσε, Μπίσεσβαρ, Πέλκας, Ζαμπά, Λημνιός, Στοχ, Γαϊτανίδης, Λάμπρου, Ενρίκε, Σφιντέρσκι, Άκπομ. Στη λίστα Β συμπεριλαμβάνονται ο: Αβεντισιάν, Μπαλωμένος, Δούμτσης, Καραμπέρης, Κωνσταντέλιας, Μανιώτης, Μιχαηλίδης, Μουτζούρης, Πουρναράς, Σαλαμούρας, Ταλιχμανίδης, Τσιγγάρας, Βουτσάς. This means that Meliopoulos and Warda were cut off the squad. Vieirinha, Wernbloom and Mauricio are injured and won’t be able to play. We can make two substitutions 24 hours prior of the first match.