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Kitsiou will not be playing due to injury. Tudor selected following players:

YES WE CAN!

The tsunami of names linked to PAOK continues: Stelios Malezas (no further explanation needed); Balasz Dzudzak (Dinamo Moscow/midfielder); Gojko Cimirot (FK Sarajevo/defensive midfielder. Artjoms Rudnevs is already in Thessaloniki and has passed the physical tests well. The transfer could be settled these moments.

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Todays league-game of Spartak Trnava away at Ruzumberok is indeed postponed. Spartak asked this because some players were not fit to play. The game probably will be played Wednesday the 19th of August. Yes, 1 day before the first leg in EL play-off of the 20th!!! Their mindset is okay to me if this means they have no confidence in beating us.

Sometimes a club is lucky and is promoted to the seeded side of the list. But Atromitos won't as they are way back in line. West Ham might be lucky when for example Trabzonspor were to be eliminated. You can also be unlucky when a higher seeded team in CL gets eliminated in round 3 by a team with a coefficient lower than your team and moves to the EL. Southampton will be unlucky if Partizan eliminates Steaua Bucharest. If Lech Poznan were to beat Basel there won't be a change in seeding as both team have already a higher coefficient than Southampton.

The criteria are the UEFA-coefficients. A Dutch guy keeps them updated before UEFA itself does. Next round in EL 44 teams participate. 22 with the highest coefficient are seeded, the other 22 unseeded. Just before the draw itself there will be groups formed of equal seeded and unseeded teams to avoid clashes of the same FA or rival countries (Russia-Ukraine / Serbia-Croatia / Armenia-Turkey). Look at this for the seeding: http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedel2015.html http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedcl2015.html http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/trank2016.html

06/08/2015, 20:05 CET FC Spartak Trnava (SVK) - PAOK FC (GRE) Referee: Tobias Welz (GER) Assistant Referee 1: Rafael Foltyn (GER) Assistant Referee 2: Christian Bandurski (GER) Fourth Official: Benjamin Brand (GER) UEFA Referee Observer: Jon Skjervold (NOR) UEFA Delegate: Jacob Erel (ISR)

Back in good old Holland I saw yesterday a very unusual scene for those who watch Greek football. When I was watching on the Dutch Nova the Feyenoord-Gavros-game the team NOT coming from Pireaus was awarded a...... . . . Penalty!!!! But I have to admit also that gavro played very well. And Feyenoord very poor by the way.

Rumours say we have an agreement with midfielder Erik Sabo of our current opponent Spartak Trnava. He is the captain and has scored 5 goals in 7 matches this new season. Other rumours say that we are interested in midfielder Ludovic Obraniak of Werder Bremen (last year on loan at Rizespor) and winger Nicola Dumitrou of Napoli (last year on loan at Veroia). Leovac plays at Rijeka in Croatia. It is said that we offered 1 mio euro's.

Though I'm not Reaper I can tell you that the stadium is used properly. Last month for the UEFA U-19 Championship. And your AEL uses it again as they will be tenants again after a short spell. BTW good to have you on this forum!!!

With a little luck Atromitos could reach the GS. Drawing Swiss Young Boys or Maccabi Tel Aviv. When it is a Borussia Dortmund or so it will be over and done.

We are seeded for sure if we beat Trnava. We are the 6th seeded team of the 22 seeded teams.Just need to avoid clubs like Krasnodar (now unseeded but there are some surprises possible that could shuffle unseeded teams to the seeded side).

The secret why PAOK seemed to play so well is revealed: The players of Trnava were dehydrated. Five players went to the hospital. Trnava even asked their FA to postpone their leaguematch of this weekend.

Deserved win overall. I just did not understand why Lucas and Mysta went to the cornerspot instead of making it 2-0. The Slovaks were ready to be demolished. Well, next week there is another opportunity to do that, hehehe.

Yes Yes Yes

Lucas!!!!

Nice play. Like Barcelona.Tika-Taka. But we lack that bit of luck today.

Yellow Lucas. Hope he is not suspended next match after his stupid yellow against Lokomotiva.

We lose too many balls because of bad communication. Why don't they speak the same football language??!!

HT. Atromitos 0-2 up. Bravo tous!

With 11+our crowd it would have been east. With 10 we still can. If we do not conceed a goal, we will finish it overthere.

Ooohh lucas!!!!!

Two yellow cards for spartak so dat. 18 fouls spartak. Paok only 4.

We make too much personal mistakes. Could kill us. As a team we are better. More possession.