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Mandalos is expendable, plays well for AEK but with the NT he seems lost at times and misses sure goals. Donis being out would be a huge blow he would give the Croatian defenders problems with his pace and dribbling. We need that element in this tie.

Thats great if we have Donis

Olympiakos barely generated anything going forward. There only good chance came late when our goalie made a leg save against the post. All and all a very good performance from PAO.

Any news on Donis? Staf is injured? I can't wait for Skibbe to name the squad.

PAO win 1 -0

I too believe Fetfa should be at least a bench option for Skibbe. He is a gifted offensive player and it can't hurt to have him on the bench if we need a goal. He should be playing his football in Europe, if he was I'm sure he would get the call up.

Hopefully he can play at some point vs Croatia

I read Donis could be back for first leg? Hopefully.

Donis could be the wildcard here, if he plays like we saw vs Belgium he could give Croatias backline problems. I expect to see us sit back and wait for counter to open up. If we limit there chances they will get nervous as will there fans and they will try hard to force the issue and then mistakes will happen.

When will Skibbe announce the squad?

Hopefully Torosidis is ready to go in the first leg. As for Croatias forwards they will find it difficult to find space with Sokratis and Manolas on them. Mandzukic is good but he is no Lukaku. Defensively Croatia are no where near what Greece has to offer. Lovren, Vinda, strinic etc can be exposed, Lovren with Liverpool at Tottenham had a really rough match, he costed his team a goal when Loris through the ball over him and could not recover to get back into position. The key will be not allowing Modric to have time on the ball as he has such great patience and vision. Hopefully we keep them off the board in Zagreb and we hit them for a goal.

Olympiakos are up a man for a half trailing by a goal and they decide to pretty much sit back? Then they get scored on twice. It's a very tough group with Juve and Barcelona but it looks like they will finish last in the group and miss out on Europa league. This team has won the GSL 8 years straight and they collect 30million every time they qualify for CL but they can't even make it out of the group stage. That's got to change.

Read article at AGONA sports that Bosnia’s coach said he will help Dalic to do anything to beat us. This clown went on and on how we are all defence and how the Greeks wear down there opponents with there defensive play. These loser Bosnians are totally obsessed with us Greeks. Hopefully we eliminate the Croats.

Bravo, AEK played a great disciplined game today. Anesti made so many grade A saves.

He did say that Croatia are ranked high and Greece are way down the rankings table. He was going on and on how he always beat us as a coach and that we lack quality and they are a super power of football. what has Croatia ever won?? Lol. Anyways the players should read his comments and they will come out even more fired up.

Apparently Ciro Blazevic former Croatian player and coach said that Croatia will crush us and said who are Greece and they are nowhere near Croatias pedigree. It reminds me of the Romanians before our playoff for 2014 World Cup spewing the same garbage. Time to destroy Croatia!

AEK looking good so far 0-0 37th minute.

I’ve been reading all the pundits picking Croatia and many Croatians saying that we are no match for them. Even the Bosnians keep chiming in talking trash about us, how Croatia will take us easily, lol. Time to KO the Croats.

That’s a tough break for him. Hopefully Manolas is 100%

Does Croatia have any problems on the injury front?

What happened to Donis? This stinks

Olympiakos give up 2 goals while up a man?

Croatia after the 1998 World Cup have had big name players but they always under achieve, we saw that in the last Euros. Just as they did in Euro 2012 qualifying when Greece went to Zagreb and stifled them 0-0 and then we dispatched them 2-0 in Athens. Will do it again.

Can't see Manolas missing out vs Croatia.

I would love too see OLY draw Barca and keep Messi of the score sheet. I Wil be watching it on TSN.