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Confirmed. AEK (3-4-3/5-2-3): Tsintotas - Hnid, Chygrynskiy (c), Nedelcearu - Paulinho, Shakhov, Krsticic, Mitaj - Tankovic, Ansarifard, Livaja PAOK (3-4-3/5-2-3): Zivkovic - Ingason, Varela, Michailidis - Matos (c), Esiti, Schwab, Giannoulis - Zivkovic, Colak, Tzolis

Carrera with 3 center backs?! He typically goes with 4-3-3 since it was in Spartak but let's see.

Empty OAKA?! Surreal....This is "nothing".

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@Blackhawk, terrible...Won't kapaki's moderators/administrators create an alternative one?! I'm finding some SuperLeague full matches of this season available on youtube but fatally they show the final result right away. What a loss...

I'm not able to find a reliable source/site where I can download full matches of Superleague. I'm desperately trying to find one. Kapaki was my treasure. Now closed. What a mess.... Please help!!!

Thanks Lazarus. I'l try today later. Really a pitty the temple of full matches (Super League) is currently dead/closed.

Is Kapaki Greek Tracker closed?! My gold source for full matches (Super League)....Anyone knows if there is any alternative?! Thanks in advance.

Kapaki, Torrent Tracker is closed?!?! My source for downloading the full matches....Any reliable alternative?!

Agree. Crespo on the flank.....what a mess...for himself (his own "protection") and the squad. I also prefer a 4-2-3-1 and maybe, yes, more compatible with what we have. Comparing to the previous season Abel understood and now avoid to start playing too low in the pitch. Avoid suicidal passes and minimizing fatal mistakes at the back. Now we play in a more direct style. In that sense, I thought it was even promising. But this guy complicates the simple and I don't see fluid processes independently on the way he wants the team to play. Abel is a "lost case/cause", I think. No horizon.

Totally agree on Pelkas and Varela. Varela would be important at that time (0-1). In attacking set pieces (winning aerial balls) and even on a better positioning at defensive recovery. Maybe Abel did not want to "double-kill" Michailidis's confidence after the own-goal. Abel...what an inability...one more season with him!??! Come back Lucescu....yesterday!

The problem is the system with these players he choose. No centre forward? Crespo at the right wing in a 3-4-3 (5-2-3)?! Loss of time and game. There was the need in getting, at least, 1-0.... All systems are valid but need the right players, options, dynamics.

With a yellow card, all nervous and pressure on the air, he could be powder keg. But I would always prefer to have him playing more minutes. Even worn out. In any case, in this case I can understand Abel. On the other options, not at all.

I like Pelkas, I don't like Abel. But Pelkas only lasts or 60 min. Always.

It seemed so reachable. Even understanding the focus on equilibrium, balance, I always expected more willingless to invade, more desire, more risk. Too much rational, and no effetive attacking connections, solutions. Globally poor and again: not only an individual quality issue. For this proposed tactical approach, no real fluid processes.

PAOK, Abel…within real reach, but a tragedy. Repeated history. Fail to access CL group stage again. Endless frustration. 3-4-3, more fear to concede than to invade. Focus on defensive recovery, compactability, all together. Control and avoid a high defensive line. Pressure flashes and intermittent combinations. Crespo, central back at right wing, 3 in front but without a striker. Loss of time, loss of game. Some good moments but generally tasteless, without urgency, when we needed to make a result (at least 1-0). Too much time to "wake up". And the cumulus of the own goal against. Suddenly panic, finally dare and then 1-1. It seemed easy. Why not sooner?! But then also 1-2, 1 minute later. Surreal fragility. The fatal side of taking more risks, but quickly uncover at the back (already without Varela). There is questionable individual quality, but the tactical blanket is short. Again killed by suicide. All this in a disturbing Toumba… .a volcano turned into an empty cemetery.

Emotional writing style...on Fridays...if in the mood for it....coming straight from the heart! Eheheh

Die at 3’, buried at 9', breathe again at 10', come back to life at 12’. Insane start. Emotion at limit with Pelkas...3-2! What a desarming delight! Surviving at the end. Globally, poor again, but we felt the hunger, the passion, the nerve! Toumba, a volcano erupting…unceasing support. So special. Like no other. No real confidence and a lot of work to do. But still alive for the second leg!

Lost in translation...

Understand not to risk with Matos, out of position, at the center. Go with two center backs. But Ingason had a very poor performance with Pana away (Super League, 0-2) and quite intermittent in other matches. Understand also to go with almost all in their "natural" role. Just do not like Pelkas start from right even if he will cut in to the center. Would prefer to have him from the left. And Zivkovic out of the squad? Rotation in the Cup? Let's see if we can at least activate fluid transitions and to improve pass accuracy. Tight lines when defending. Toumba, vibrant soul! To be our vulcanic fortress. And become unsurpassed again.

Agreed. Matos as centre back will give speed but it will be risky in terms of positioning and equilibrium . Also easily attracted....and end up out of place. Don't know Mihaj. No other real options. Midfield needs to help and be solid and "compacted". (Nervous) countdown...

And Abel needs to wake himself up. We should done much better with these players. Persist in trying to bring tactical hybridity is potentiating errors, accidents and a lot of spaces conceded. Try to consolidate a simpler but consistent approach.

Totally agree with you Bananas. But please not for next season. I've already posted about the poor performance and tactics. With no tangible improvements. I really do not believe him. Obviously he should finish this season, but it will be painful if he remains.

Old poor past. We should look to the present/future. Abel is too "pseudo". Too much time to see any improvement in the team. And it doesn't happen.

Abel, Abel....is it possible to get worse?!