Dutch Eagle

Here you can see his goal: http://inpaok.com/340821/νέα-γκολάρα-ο-σταφυλίδης-video/

Tommy Gemmell died yesterday at the age of 73. The Scotsman was one of the socalled "Lisbon Lions" the group of Celtic-players that won the European Cup in 1967 beating Inter Milan with 2-1. Gemmell was a left back. As far as I know he is the only Scotsman to score in two finals. He scored the equalizer in that match in 1967. In the 1970-final he scored again in the final. This time the opener against Feyenoord, but at the end they lost the game with 2-1 after extra time.

Raymond Kopa died today at the age of 85. The son of Polish immigrants (full surname: Kopaszewski) played in the first European Cupfinal with Reims in 1956. Real Madrid won that cup. Kopa joined Real and won the European cup three times with them (1957, 1958 and 1959). After that win he returned to France. He won the bronze medal with France in the WC 1958.

When I woke up today I saw that - again - two great players passend away. Time to open a new topic for those players that gave us great moments. Up to you to decide if a player is entitled to be mentioned in this topic!

Draw will be 11:30 Greek time March 17th. Games will probably be played in April as the Gavs have to play EL (March 9 and 16) and - as Blackhawk mentioned - the NT will play at the end of March.

Not really about the coefficient but still interesting. This is from a guy on another forum. He updates every week the standings and transfers them than to the seedinglist of CL and EL (just one file right of the menu that is shown at the bottom) where you can your position of that week. It is in cyrillic but if you can read Greek it is easy to understand. There is also a format in English. I will try to find it and post it. Don't know why the last line has not turned blue and with a line but you have to copy past that too. https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=4FE4712A1E3EA4FA!269&ithint=file%2cxl sx&app=Excel&authkey=!AGXXYM8a20o0fZg

Omonioa, Saw the standings on Wikipedia. AEZ Zakakiou and Anagennisi are relegated already. Are there not other matches for them beside MD 26? How will those clubs survive not playing from early March till the beginning of the next season?

We sucked but survived. Must improve for the next games. But it is always difficult to play at your normal level if you know that a 0-1 is enough too.

Crossbar Pelkas

Looks like Michel is sent away.

Mε την παρουσία πέντε παικτών του ΠΑΟΚ, θα ταξιδέψει η αποστολή της Εθνικής Ελλάδος παίδων, στην Πορτογαλία για την elite round του Euro U-17. Ο Ελευθέριος Λύρατζης, ο Ιωάννης Μιχαηλίδης, ο Γεώργιος Βρακάς, ο Αντώνης Γαϊτανίδης και ο Αλέξανδρος Γκαργκαλατζίδης, θα είναι οι εκπρόσωποι του Δικεφάλου στο αντιπροσωπευτικό συγκρότημα της U17 της Ελλάδας. Αναλυτικά η σχετική ενημέρωση αναφέρει: O κ. Βασίλης Γεωργόπουλος ανακοίνωσε τα ονόματα των ποδοσφαιριστών που θα συμπεριληφθούν στην αποστολή της Εθνικής Ομάδας Παίδων ενόψει της συμμετοχής της το χρονικό διάστημα 9-16/3/2017 στην elite round του UEFA U-17 European Championship 2017. Οι Παίδες συμμετέχουν στον 3ο όμιλο με αντιπάλους τις Ισπανία, Πολωνία και Πορτογαλία (διοργανώτρια του τουρνουά).

Pedro Henrique should be available on Thursday. He did a normal trainingprogram today without problems.

Another clean sheet for Kostas Lamprou. The Dutch Nova made a documentary about him (with a free translation): whatever it costs/Kostas: https://www.foxsports.nl/video/fox-sports-doc-kostas-wat-het-kost/

Panionios won 0-1 in Karaiskaki. The gavs missed two penalties.

FT. Once again no win away against Iraklis.

No. 1-1

I do also rate Athletic Bilbao higher than Anderlecht. But I rated Zenit also higher than Anderlecht and look who progressed. Pity that Sotiriou will be suspended after his two yellows. Don't know if there are other players suspended due to too many cards.

Olympiakos - Besiktas it is.

Your wish is granted, my son! First match in Karaiskaki.

Result of the draw: APOEL - Anderlecht

Sparta Praha out so The Czech Republic is without participants. That is good for us. Shaktar out so Ukraine is without participants. That is also good for us. They are ahead but lose a lot of points due to economical and political reasons. Also Dnepr is not allowed to participate thus a weaker team take their spot. Switzerland was already all out Astra Giurgiu out so Romania is without participants. That is also good for us. Osmanli and Fener out for Turkey. That leaves them with only one club. Good for us. Pity that Belgium has three contenders left. But they are a lightyear away from us. Now its up to Oly to grab some more points and minimize the damage. Maybe not for now but for the long term.

A clean sheet will do the trick. Even if Xanthi scores just one goal we will progres. Must be careful the first 20 minutes not allowing Xanthi to score to take away confidence from them.

Time to beat the Gries. This season is decided. We know the champion. Just finish top 5. All clubs lose a lot of points. And at the end 5 points difference is just one point on the PO. If Ivic will rest some one I'm OK with that. All for the glory of the cup.