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A little bit of rotation in defense and midfield, the front three remains unchanged. A little surprised that A.Zivkovic wasn't given a rest and allowed to come off the bench. ---------------------Paschalakis Rodrigo------Ingason----------Crespo------Perriera -------------Esiti---------------Schwab------ Zivkovic-------------Warda---------------Tzolis -------------------Swiderski-------

After another injury lay-off, Retsos returned to the starting line-up for Saint Etienne in their 1-1 draw with PSG. He played the full 90, hopefully this is the beginning of a long and injury free run for him. Would be great to have him fit and in-form come the WC qualifiers in March.

Warda and Kremncik included in the squad for the first time, they aren't guaranteed to play as they are still awaiting some paperwork hopefully that comes in time and they can play. On the other hand Lamprou is available. Varela a noticeable absentee. Πασχαλάκης , Ζίβκοβιτς , Βιεϊρίνια , Ροντρίγκο , Ίνγκασον , Κρέσπο , Μιχαηλίδης , Γιαννούλης , Περέιρα , Εσίτι , Ντόουγκλας , Νινούα , ΕλΚαντουρί , Σβαμπ , Μουργκ , Λάμπρου , Ουάρντα , Α.Ζίβκοβιτς , Τζόλης , Σφιντέρσκι , Τσόλακ , Κρμέντσικ .

That is a disgusting result, Larissa had won one game for the season. Shaky keeper Nagy finally gives us a gift and we avoid complete embarrassment. Any tiny flicker of a flame we had at competing for the title has gone out, it's Cup or bust for us this season just not good enough.

Ingason and Varela have been asked to do 2 things all night and they haven't been able to do it

How the F*** don't you score

Take Murg off and give Colak one last hurrah before he gets loaned out. Garcia needs to try something, we've created enough but no ones been able to finish

Tragic defending Time to go with 2 strikers

Could've easily been a goal or two up, we are in for a 2nd half slog. Murg really has disappointed so far, probably was our worst player in the 1st half.

Their keeper looks extremely shaky, surely we eventually punish him

Our corner taking has finally improved, we've looked dangerous enough from our first 3 corners

Balanced views as always

I wouldn't worry too much about highlights videos and what fans are saying. The majority wouldn't have seen him play and highlights can be deceiving, Colak looked real good in his highlights. If he can put the ball in the net we are happy, that's what we need a scorer. Prijo came from a similar level league (probably worse) at a similar age and physically is similar, I wasn't thrilled when he signed back in 2017 but we know how that turned out. The pleasing thing is that the club appears to be moving fast to cover one of our trouble positions. Traditionally we've been slow in moving in the market.

@Athens4 100% correct, he's all about maximising views, clicks and listenership. When he is analysing football he is actually not bad but that is so rare as he's usually trying to stir Aris or PAOK fans. Not much pure football analysis that comes out of Greece, the most popular journalists seem to be ones who sprout bull.

He likes to stir things up for most teams, if you hear the things he says about Karapapas you wouldn't think he's on the payroll. Given he's based in Thessaloniki, PAOK takes up a lot of air-time so he probably speaks about PAOK more than any other team.

It seems the Warda links were anything but fake, he is on his way back..... Tragic, even if he comes good it's just poor management to keep bringing someone back who has burnt us so many times in the past. By the same token he has never been given a full season at PAOK, again poor management. We are also apparently very close to signing his Volos teammate Douvikas and loaning him straight back to them for the rest of the season. While the search for a starting striker goes on.

I really hope it's fake news, if we bring Warda back I'll ??

Pash been sleeping on this topic we've been linked with plenty of players! I've heard rumours coming out of Tripoli that we've agreed a fee for Kotsiras, the Asteras right back. Yet to see it reported by a reputable source though. Also apparently we are interested in Douvikas from Volos, who has been a stand-out so far this season. He's 21 and has 5 goals and 2 assists so far this season. Douvikas link

Didn't work for me either, really frustrating. Avoided the result so I could watch a replay, had to settle for highlights. Important win, keeps us in touch with the top of the table. Must win our first 3 games of the New Year (Larissa, Atromitos and Volos) before we play our game in hand against Olympiacos.

Lykogiannis scored a nice goal from a free kick overnight. He played the full 90 in Cagliari's 1-1 draw against Udinese You can see the goal at 38 seconds in

He's in the squad?

We will never know the truth, Olympiacos and Aris will maintain PAOK is the cause of all evil in the world (I heard Savvidis is behind COVID) and we will of course deny any wrong doing and point the finger back at them. No one in Greece much less Greek football is clean, I agree with Blackhawk I think in the end Siampanis maybe chewed up and spat out. In terms of what happens between the clubs is anyone's guess, there will be punishments teams will appeal and on goes the circus that is Greek football.

Well said and I agree with almost everything @Bananas Good to see you posting file, don't take such a long holiday between posts again!

Shame, very unlikely we see him play for PAOK again. In what may well be his last act for the club will be one that will go down in Toumba folklore, it's just unfortunate that his brave effort ended up being on a losing team. Speedy recovery Moussa.