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Line ups are in - same as last time except for Tzolis for Pelkas (which most of us wanted) and Siopis for Mantalos (which most of us would agree). Chatzigiovanis is starting again and so is Bouchalakis. Only change I would make is put in delias and Zafeiris in.

They are playing on Finland on Saturday, Ireland on Tuesday

Thanks - I couldn't remember who it was.

Isn't there another young kid that the Ethniki is trying to cap as well? Remember reading it was Zafeiris and one more.

Yesterday's results were not great. AEK is on the verge of getting knocked out and has a 3-1 score to overcome. PAOK has a shot but looked like second best most of the game. Let's see what PAO does in probably the trickiest tie of this round.

They had a chance, just fell apart at the end...

They won that match and finish first in the group...Serbia it is..

Serbia needs to win by 3+. Doable but we shall see.

So far so good, next round though will be harder...

We have a realistic shot at 11 but can also go down to 17.

Last year was our best year in a very long time - hopefully we keep the momentum going.... The only good thing about having 4 teams this year instead of 5, is each win is worth more. Let's see how many points we can rack up before the Groups. The Bonus points are included - would have thought OLY would have gotten some bonus pts for making the automatic group of Europa but I guess that's just for CL.

The thing is you don't have that many rich investors knocking on your door to buy the club and pour money in. PAO has been trying for years!!

He knows Greek football - pretty good coach. We are not exactly throwing tons of money around in the coaching search...

If the friendlies showed us one thing - Tzolis must start!!

10 Czech Republic 2.500 6.600 6.700 6.750 13.500 36.050 4 11 Scotland 9.750 8.500 7.900 3.500 6.400 36.050 5 12 Switzerland 6.400 5.125 7.750 8.500 5.200 32.975 5 13 Austria 5.800 6.700 10.400 4.900 4.800 32.600 5 14 Norway 3.750 6.500 7.625 5.750 8.000 31.625 4 15 Greece 4.900 5.100 8.000 2.125 11.400 31.525 5 16 Denmark 5.125 4.125 7.800 5.900 8.500 31.450 4 Wow - Who would have thought that we would move to 15th!!

Game over - OLY going back to Athens with a 4-2 advantage

OLY playing very well...doing a great job snuffing out Aston's chances and making some quality plays...

Congrats to them - they beat some good teams along the way. They were the only undefeated team in the tournament.

Btw - that penalty that the Croatian keeper "saved", didn't it cross the line?

Either way - that's the best we have performed in Europe in a very long time. If OLY would win, do they get automatic entry to Europa next year? If that's the case, that means we would have 5.

He almost saved another - he looked calm during the entire time...

14 Norway 3.750 6.500 7.625 5.750 8.000 31.625 4 15 Denmark 5.125 4.125 7.800 5.900 8.500 31.450 4 16 Israel 2.375 7.000 6.750 6.250 8.750 31.125 4 17 Greece 4.900 5.100 8.000 2.125 10.000 30.125 1/ 5 18 Ukraine 7.200 6.800 4.200 5.700 4.100 28.000 5 19 Serbia 6.000 5.500 9.500 5.375 1.400 27.775 5 I guess in order to leap frog to 15th, OLY needs to win the Conference league, no bonus points?

I thought that UEFA said it was an accident, there was no positive test....

The penalty was soft, it wasn't that bad of a challenge. Didn't think it merited a yellow card.

Poland almost lost as well, game came down to penalties. Georgia was playing more defensive, trying to hit us on the counter. We got gassed and then penalties happened. We had an off game, nothing else to say. We just couldn't connect. Feels terrible. I think every single one on this thread would have picked the same line-up from the last match. Kostantellias played almost 60 minutes. Tzolis could have helped but for who? He had to replace most of the back line bc of their cards/couldn't go on. Half our subs were the backline. You have three more subs, you replace Pelkas (made sense), you replace Ionnidis (he couldn't go on) and then the last one is the one that is questionable, but who would it have been that would have made a difference? I guess Pavlidis instead of Giakoumakis but that is a 50/50 choice.... They didn't have it today - plain and simple.