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Not convinced with this performance. A lot of work and dynamics to be consolidated.
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After ~ 1.5 months with García, I would expect more. 4-3-3 with poor pass precision, definition and unclarity. El Khaddouri and Murg seem too "dispersed", they need to support and find criterion to progress in the center-mid.
With Boloni, Pana should keep showing reasonable adherence and resistance to the plan trying to balance and maintain equilibrium.
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Some rotation post-Europe League but poor performance today. A lot of intra and inter-spaces conceeded. No real connections when advancing to the area. A lot of non-sense and innocuous crosses.
García needs to consolidate its simple, its practical 4-3-3, improving team's compaction.
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We are loosing...García is taking too long for the subs, changes.
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Just the first match with García but immediately the obvious and simple change to to 4-2-3-1. Hope to be the beginning of a wonderfull adventure!
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12 hours ago, Bananas said:
Well this came out of left field. Never could I have imagined any team being interested in wanting to acquire Abel as their manager, let alone a big club like Palmeiras. It’s quite bizarre really. Maybe Savvidis has gangster contacts in Brazil and there is black money being sloshed around offshore accounts. A case of conspiracy theory making more sense than anything else.
Regardless, much to my surprise, I’m not that keen on Abel leaving. Yes, he can be inflexible but overall he has the team in a decent state. The squad is quite fit, and we are playing a decent brand of football. It’s not like we are playing terrible and are being outplayed each week. Our problem is obvious to all i.e. lack of firepower up front. We are lacking a killer striker and players that can run at defences. Zifkovic, Tzolis and other attackers are all solid players but don’t have that ability to charge at and rip through defences like say a Mak or Rodrigues could. In the striking department again we are a little lacking. Give us El Arabi and we are winning the title. Let’s see if Colak comes good. The other obvious criticism of Abel is playing three at the back in the GSL. Totally unnecessary for 90% of games in Greece and probably detrimental. I’m sure he has his reasons, I just can’t work out what they are.
And now onto Garcia. Again, much to my surprise I’m not that keen on his appointment. Not because I don’t love him, but precisely because I do. Being a manager, especially in the modern era, is a thankless task. It hardly ever ends well and the last thing I want to see is the “legend” of Garcia diminished, or worse, he leaves the club with bad blood. If it can happen with Ivic or Lucescu (thanks for winning us a title after 35 years) it can happen with anyone. I hope I’m very wrong. He’s done an awesome job with the youth team and brought up a couple of hopeful kids (Tzolis, Michailidis) and that’s all I want from a youth coach. I just hope however and whenever his tenure comes to an end it isn’t in typical kafeneio fashion. I guess we’ll soon find out if Garcia is made for first team football. Newsflash, ha ha, I can see it now “where are all the wingers”, “we sold them all because Abel didn’t need them”, “PAOK looking for wingers in next transfer period”.
I remember saying a few years ago that all I f**king wanted was for the circus of hiring and firing managers to end and to just have one manager stay for more than a year. Behold, my wish was granted, and Lucescu stayed for two. An eternity by PAOK standards. We have reverted to our mean for the time being.
I've posted here several times about Abel and his tactical farse. First with a naif and bluffing ambitious 4-4-2 but exacerbating erros but no effective connections, attacking solutions. Then this season, a conservative 3-4-2-1 and then Repeated history. Even understanding the focus on equilibrium, balance, I always expected more willingless to invade, more desire, more risk.
Abel is too "pseudo". Too much time to see any improvement in the team. And it didn’t happen.
I don't know García, but excited to see changes in tactics and style for the near future. And all individuals rising individual level with the support of a solid team.
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Abel, what a sad tenure at Thessaloniki. Glad to see him leaves but suprised how can he attract Palmeiras' interest (or this is just one more case of agents-business-partners?).
Don't know García, but hopefully he can confirm the very good performance with the kids.
It's urgent to find some ambition and performance stability. I'm not finding any realistic alternatives which could ensure some "confidence".
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Pablo García, is his managerial record with PAOK U20, above 80% in 3-4 seasons?! Really?
Don't know his tactics, his preferred style of play.
PAOK need someone to impact immediately. Lucescu is impossible but it seems crucial to be someone who knows PAOK internally and also the SuperLeague itself as a whole, all the "tricks" and traps, the difficult stadiums and grounds.
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So so obvious. From the early beginning. Worse than a bluff.
Impossible Lucescu...
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Suffer too much against teams that close spaces. Embarassing unability to find practical solutions to overcome these systems.
For how long Abel? It's clear that he will not work here.
Too early in the season for a discredit horizon (again). Now, we all know the story. No faith at all.
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The “warm” sky of Athens… but OAKA is empty. Until when?
Carrera's AEK, from the usual 4-3-3 (which he has used since Spartak days) for a reformulated 3-4-3 / 5-2-3. Mirrored in Abel's PAOK.
Good pace but no ideas. PAOK with more ball but insisting on long ones. Waste of time. No depth. AEK more on hold and exploring the spaces.
Giannoulis non-stop runs and criterion with Tzolis. They will be the next ones to leave (Pelkas scored in his debut for Fenerbahce).
Abel taking a long time to change. Finishing in a 4-1-3-2 / 4-2-4, more chaotic, more "anomalous" in attack, but the approach helped and 1-1. Has he captured the signal?
Last season, Abel pulled out “smart guy” in an unsupported make-up ambition. He exacerbated mistakes and paid deardly, conceding too many goals.
He adjusted to a 3-4-3 / 5-2-3 where he avoids playing from behind, hits the front, flying balls over the midfield, to protect losses and counters and go to the 2nd ball. But now team suffers more when trying to invade small spaces and low block defenses.
Transfers...some arrive, some left, (low) individual quality but at Greek dimension.
This season, beyond SuperLeague, there is also Europe.
At the crossroad...... he need to quickly consolidate without complicating the things. Flexibility without too much variability, with the shield of perceiving the best chemistries.
Many doubts on his evolution as a coach.
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Abel: "Good match to see. Congratulations to my players, they respected the game plan".
Final hunger, spirit is praiseworthy.
But we need to improve connection between lines, "junction" and minimize disorder. And obviously to speed up incorporation of new comers.
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"Draw is fair" - Carrera, satisfied. Change in the system may have impacted.
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What a pitty this last chance....
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Let's go 1-2 still possible.
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GOAAAAL Murg!!
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Giannoulis, infinite runs.
4-1-3-2/4-2-4 to try to at least a draw. But too much dispersion and poor precision. Can't we prepare something simpler, practical? Missing Lucescu.
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Just now, bluevertigo said:
With ball I believe he can do better. But it's his typical. No surprises.
We need to filter and create more at center midfield (anyone on the bench?). Insisting in direct balls when they have three center backs, it will be hard to find depth.
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8 minutes ago, PaokCT said:
Esiti playing poor? We watching the same game?
With ball I believe he can do better. But it's his typical. No surprises.
We need to filter and create more at center midfield (anyone on the bench?). Insisting in direct balls when thae have three center backs, it will be hard to find depth.
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Esiti with ball....poor. No ideas in center midfield. Senseless direct balls.
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Too passive .....in 1-0 by Ansarifard.
Sharp finish by Tzolis...
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Giannoulis e Tzolis, how they are still "here" in Greece?!
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Giannoulis - what a speedy train! Up and down.
SL1 - R24: Asteras Tripolis - PAOK (27-02-21, 19:30 EET)
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Lack of motivation. Lack of ambition. Lack of organization. Lack of focus.
Lucescu...the (im)possible return?!