SL1-PO-R9: NFC Volos - PAOK (08.05.23, 21:00 EEST)

[Blackhawk]

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MATCHUP:          NFC Volos - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki
COMPETITION:   Superleague 1 – Playoffs - Round 9
DATE:                   07-May-2023
TIME:                    20:00 EET  (17:00 UTC, 12:00 CDT, 03:00 AEST next day)
CITY/STADIUM:  Volos – Panthessaliko Stadio (Capacity: 22,700)
REFEREES:  
TELEVISION:       COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia)

NFC Volos – PAOK history:

2022-2022:  0:1 (Thomas) - Attendance: 4,288
2021-2022:  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:  4    WINS:  3    TIES:  1    LOSSES:  0

[Blackhawk]

Obvious must win game in order to have a chance to defeat Olympiakos in the last round of the playoffs and claim the 3rd place in the standings.

[pash]

All games from MD9 postponed due to a covid outbreak at Panathinaikos. Not sure when this will be played.

[Blackhawk]

Monday at 21:00 EEST. Decided by the big, and I mean big, President of Superleague.

[Blackhawk]

Starting lineup:

[Blackhawk]

A. Zivkovic and Schwab are at 3 yellow cards. If they receive one today they will miss the big game on Sunday against Olympiakos.

Bise with a start. I have a feeling that he will score today and give us the win.

In the other game Panathinaikos is playing with a full squad of players infected with COVID-19 according with Panathinaikos officials, but I don't really believe them. Rumors are that Olympiakos also has COVID cases and I would not be surprised if they use that fact to postpone our game against them on Sunday. 

[Blackhawk]

0:1 Zivkovic

[Blackhawk]

Volos red card in 45th minute.

Halftime: Volos - PAOK  0:1

In the other games:

Aris - AEK 1:2
Olympiakos - Panathinaikos  0:0 

[Dutch Eagle]

0-2 Brandon 

[Blackhawk]

0:2 Thomas

Very nice goal after an assist by Schwab

[Dutch Eagle]

Andrija and Schwab subbed out without a card. El Kaddouri and Felipe Soares in.

[Dutch Eagle]

Biseswar subbed out. Stefanos Tzimas subbed in 

[Dutch Eagle]

Last sub. André Ricardo in for Brandon. 

[Dutch Eagle]

FT 0-2.

Next week is the deciding one.

[italosPAOK4]

aneth nikh bravo sthn omada mas !

[Blackhawk]

Easy win. Now if we can beat Olympiakos on Sunday for the 3rd place.

In the other games.

Aris - AEK  1:2
Olympiakos - Panathinaikos  1:0

With these results AEK is pretty much guaranteed to win the Superleague title next Sunday.

[pash]

6 hours ago, Blackhawk said:

In the other game Panathinaikos is playing with a full squad of players infected with COVID-19 according with Panathinaikos officials

I don't understand this. Did the rules change, and players can just play while sick now? What was the point of delaying MD9 by only one day??

[Blackhawk]

There are no longer COVID rules. The one day delay was decided by the fat owner (and president of Superleague) of Olympiakos. This has nothing to do with COVID or the health of the players. It has to do with power struggle for the control of Greek football. That's why we still don't know where and when the Greek Cup final will be played.