SL1-R26: NFC Volos - PAOK (12.03.23, 19:00 EET)

[Blackhawk]

      VS 

MATCHUP:           NFC Volos - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki
COMPETITION:    Superleague 1 – Round 26
DATE:                    12-March-2023
TIME:                    19:00 EET  (17:00 UTC, 12:00 CDT, 04:00 AEDT next day)
CITY/STADIUM:  Volos – Panthessaliko Stadio (Capacity: 22,700)
REFEREES:  
TELEVISION:       COSMOTE Sport 3HD (Greece), Antenna Staellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia

NFC Volos – PAOK history:

2022-2022:  0:4 (Kurtic, Ingason, Sastre, Akpom) - Attendance: 377
2020-2021:  0:0 - Attendance: no fans
2019-2020:  0:2 (Limnios, Pelkas-p) - Attendance: 4,566

GAMES:  3    WINS:  2    TIES:  1    LOSSES:  0

[Dutch Eagle]

We received 5,000 tickets from Volos. Sale started today and in the first hours more than 1,000 were already sold.

[Blackhawk]

The government and police announced that they will not allow organized travel of PAOK fans to Volos. Something they did not do for the other teams (PAO, AEK, Olympiakos). Any fans travelling to Volos will have to do it on their own and at their own risk.

Oliveira, Zivkovic, Schwab, Ingason and Koulierakis are at yellow card limit. If they receive one in this game they will miss the playoff opener. Can we afford not to start those 5 players and still beat Volos?

[paokarag4]

Absolutely not, given we have recently dropped points against Asteras and PAS we are in position to be that confident we will win and not have 4.5 starters, start the match. I don't think Lucescu will do it either, we may see one or 2 on the bench but I dare say Ingason, Koulierakis and one of Zivkovic/Oliveira will start (if not both).

AEK plays Olympiakos this weekend too, so a win will see us either close the gap on AEK or jump Olympiakos on the table. Let's take care of business against Volos, something we weren't able to do in our recent travels. 

[Dutch Eagle]

Näsberg is injured. Michailidis returns in the squad after his injury. Tzimas is back to the K19. Full squad:

Κοτάρσκι , Ζίβκοβιτς , Μπαλωμένος , Σάστρε , Κεντζιόρα , Ίνγκασον , Κάργας , Μιχαηλίδης , Κουλιεράκης , Ράφα Σοάρες , Σβαμπ , Ντάντας , Ντόουγκλας , Ελ Καντουρί , Κωνσταντέλιας , Μπίσεσβαρ , Α.Ζίβκοβιτς , Τάισον , Ρικάρντο , Νάρεϊ , Ολιβέιρα , Μπράντον .

[italosPAOK4]

nikh kai 3 bathmous !

[Dutch Eagle]

Ingason is not in the squad:

Κοτάρσκι, Ράφα, Κουλιεράκης, Κάργας, Σάστρε, Σβαμπ, Ντούγκλας. Κωνσταντέλιας, Νάρεϊ, Αντρίγια και Μπράντον.

Bench:

Ζ. Ζίβκοβιτς, Κεντζιόρα, Ντάντας, Μιχαηλίδης, Ελ Καντουρί, Ρικάρντο, Μπίσεσβαρ, Τάισον, Ολιβειρα.

 

[Dutch Eagle]

Goallllll. Brandon 0-1

[Blackhawk]

1:0 Brandon

[pash]

God damn daylight savings...realized what time it really was about 35 minutes too late. Still, nice to see we're up a goal. Is there any home fan presence at all??

[Dutch Eagle]

29 minutes ago, pash said:

God damn daylight savings...realized what time it really was about 35 minutes too late. Still, nice to see we're up a goal. Is there any home fan presence at all??

Lier! You were just doing a nap and forgot about it. 

Daylight savings is in two weeks, dude!

[pash]

NOT HERE IN THE LAND OF FREEDOM!

[pash]

Taison and Oliveira in for Konstantelias and Thomas

[pash]

Wow that was close. Good job by Kotarski not drawing a stupid penalty. But holy s%$#! that was dumb

[pash]

Dantas and El Kaddouri coming on for Schwab and Narey.

Olympiakos winning by 3 goals, but now down to 10 men. PAO up by one goal.

[Dutch Eagle]

FT 0-1. Three points. And no yellows for "the endangerd". Only Sastre and Rafa Soares got yellows. 

[Blackhawk]

Playoffs time now. Seven points behind the leaders and 5 points behind 2nd place.

[PaokCT]

2nd place is possible. But lets just focus on winning the cup and getting a later start date in Europe. Champions League will be nice but with our team right now and horrible coefficient in Europe, I doubt we would advance past the first qualifying stage.