SL–R6: AE Larisa - PAOK (30 Sep 17, 20:30 EEST)

[Blackhawk]

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MATCHUP:           AE Larisa - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki
COMPETITION:   Superleague – Round 6
DATE:                    30-September-2017
TIME:                    20:30 GR  (17:30 GMT, 12:30 CDT, 04:30 AEDT next day)
CITY/STADIUM:  Larisa – AEL Arena (Capacity: 16,118)
REFEREES:           Alexandros Katsikogiannis (Epirus) - Iordanis Dimitriadis (Kastoria), Konstantinos Pontikis (Preveza)
TELEVISION:       Novasports 1 (Greece, Cyprus, Albania), Sport Plus (USA, Canada, Australia)

Larisa – PAOK history:

Superleague

2016-2017:  0:2 (Mystakidis, Matos) - Attendance: 2,559
2011-2016:  Larisa played in lower divisions
2010-2011:  1:2 (Contreras, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 12,829
2009-2010:  2:1 (Contreras) - Attendance: 6,848
2008-2009:  0:2 (Bakayoko, Conceicao) - Attendance: 4,669    (Playoffs)
2008-2009:  0:0 - Attendance: 4,611
2007-2008:  4:3 (Athanasiadis 2, Balafas) - Attendance: ?
2006-2007:  1:2 (Mieciel 2) - Attendance: 7,358
2005-2006:  2:1 (Mieciel) - Attendance: 8,906

Alpha Ethniki (Professional)

1996-2005:  Larisa played in lower divisions
1995-1996:  2:1 (Gioukoudis-p) - Attendance: 1,618
1994-1995:  0:2 (Anastasiadis, Kapetanopoulos) - Attendance: ?
1993-1994:  1:1 (Karasavvidis) - Attendance: ?
1992-1993:  2:1 (Djurdjevic) - Attendance: ?
1991-1992:  0:0 - Attendance: ?
1990-1991:  1:1 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: ?
1989-1990:  0:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: ?
1988-1989:  2:1 (Giagkos) - Attendance: ?
1987-1988:  1:1 (Borbokis) - Attendance: ?
1986-1987:  2:1 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: ?
1985-1986:  2:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: ?
1984-1985:  1:2 (Dimopoulos 2) - Attendance: ?
1983-1984:  1:1 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ?
1982-1983:  1:0 - Attendance: ?
1981-1982:  1:0 - Attendance: ?
1980-1981:  0:0 - Attendance: ?
1979-1980:  0:3 (Koudas, Orfanos) - Attendance: ?

Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional)

1978-1979:  1:1 (Guerino) - Attendance: ?
1975-1978:  Larisa played in lower divisions
1974-1975:  0:2 (Kermanidis, Guerino) - Attendance: ?
1973-1974:  1:1 (Aslanidis) - Attendance: ?
1964-1973:  Larisa played in lower divisions

GAMES:   28   WINS:   9   TIES:   9   LOSSES:  10

[Dutch Eagle]

I hope the schock-effect won't be there this match as Larisa appointed Mantzios as their third coach this year. André Paus from the Netherlands was sacked, Belgian Jacky Mathijssen left (mutual consent).

Matzios left Apollon. He knows how to park the bus.

[Blackhawk]

Mantzios will take over Larisa after the PAOK game.

From what I have seen so far this season Larisa is the weakest team together with Apollon in Superleague. Dropping points in this game will be a failure.

[pash]

Sounds like Campos won't travel for this game. Most of the other injured guys seem to be doing better, though I doubt Leveque will be there either.

[Blackhawk]

Leveque is out until mid-October.

[Yiankos]

Everything is for good. Leveque's injuries will make Lucescu use the youngster again.

I cross my fingers Crespo will stay on the bench after he recovers, too.

[pash]

Sadly, I have a feeling Leovac will get a solid run from here on out. But against Larissa, there's really no reason Deligiannidis shouldn't get another chance.

[pash]

Seems their next coach has backed out of heading this team, due to his kid not wanting to move or something. Not going to affect us either way, but that's rough. I say sell the kid.

[italosPAOK4]

prepei na arxisoume ta dipla gia na paroume to prwta8lhma leme !

[Blackhawk]

Has nothing to do with his kid. It's just an excuse. He finally realized that he was dealing with the nutcase Alexis Kougias, the owner of AEL. Incidently Kougias just came out saying that he is selling AEL for 3 mil.

[Yiankos]

The only good left for AEL is their stadium...

[pash]

Here's our list of players that will travel. Limnios injured during training, won't be joining. Also missing are Canas, Campos, Kace

Ρέι, Πασχαλάκης, Λέοβατς, Δεληγιαννίδης, Μάτος, Κρέσπο, Σαμπράνο, Βαρέλα, Σάκχοφ, Μαουρίτσιο, Τσίμιροτ, Πέλκας, Μπίσεσβαρ, Βιεϊρίνια, Ελ Καντουρί, Μακ, Πρίγιοβιτς και Κουλούρης

Methinks we'll have the same lineup as last week.

[Blackhawk]

On 9/27/2017 at 8:23 PM, Yiankos said:

The only good left for AEL is their stadium...

Nice stadium, but the pitch is in very bad shape as I saw watching Larisa on TV two weeks ago.

[pash]

Same lineup.

Matos Varela Zambrano Leovac

Mauricio Cimirot

Vieirinha El Kaddouri Pelkas

Prijovic

[Yiankos]

Everyone knows I don't consider Pelkas a good enough player for a starter at current PAOK.

What I don't understand is why Lucescu keeps changing positions of the guy. One time he played as a central midfielder, then a left winger, and finally as the attacking midfielder. To me this is another proof that there is no position for him as a starter. But, I think keep messing with the player's position won't help him progress.

[Yiankos]

23 hours ago, Blackhawk said:

Nice stadium, but the pitch is in very bad shape as I saw watching Larisa on TV two weeks ago.

That's very true. I am sure after the official opening of the stadium many years ago, nothing has happened to maintain a good pitch. Greek reality of a mediocre team owned by a joke celebrity president.

[Yiankos]

http://www.soccerjumbotv.me/ch-15.html

[Blackhawk]

Poor so far. Problems solving parked bus as usual. 

[pash]

Right now, my subs:

Shakhov for Mauricio (due to the card + needing to muscle through these guys more)

Biseswar for El Kaddouri (who seems to be getting too easily frustrated)

[pash]

Vieirinha with our first real attempt at goal, 39th minute. Header that went just over.

[pash]

Vieirinha with another good attempt. Another Larissa player is down.

Mak, Biseswar, Shakhov all warming up. All three would be good moves IMO.

[italosPAOK4]

PAOKARA bale ena goal !

[pash]

GOAL MATOS! YAAAYYY

[pash]

Just now, italosPAOK4 said:

PAOKARA bale ena goal !

You are magic!

[Blackhawk]

Nice goal.

Perfect timing. Hopefully we'll see a better second half.