EL-LP-MD2: PAOK - FCSB (03.10.24, 22:00 EEST)

[Blackhawk]

 VS

MATCHUP:               PAOK Thessaloniki – FCSB
COMPETITION:      Europa League – League Phase – MD2
DATE:                     03-October-2024
TIME:                      22:00 EEST (19:00 GMT, 14:00 CDT, 05:00 AEST next day)
CITY/STADIUM:   Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium Stadium (28,708)
REFEREES:              Sascha Stegemann - Marco Achmuller, Christof Gunsch (Germany)
TELEVISION:         COSMOTE Sport, ANT1 TV (Greece), ANT1 TV (worldwide with VPN), Optus Sport (Australia), DAZN (Canada), Paramount+ (USA)

PAOK’s History against teams from Romania in European Competitions

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2005-2006:  Rapid Bukurest – PAOK   1:0 - Att: 12,100 – UEFA Cup (Group Stage – Round 3)
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1970-1971:  PAOK – Dinamo Bukurest  1:0 – (81. Koudas) - Att: 12,171 – Fairs Cup (Round 1 – Leg 2)
1970-1971:  Dinamo Bukurest – PAOK  5:0 – Att: ? – Fairs Cup (Round 1 – Leg 1)
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GAMES:  3    WINS:  1    TIES:  0    LOSSES:  2

[paokarag4]

The 4 home games will make or break our European Campaign this season. Must win especially coming off the loss yesterday.

FCSB beat Riga 4-1 this morning, but Riga is probably (on paper at least) the weakest team in the Europa League. 

Game is pretty close to a 50-50 IMO, without knowing too much about FCSB. They haven't had a great start to their domestic season, winning only 2 out of 9 so far (4 draws and 3 losses). 

[pash]

Come on now, let's not play them up too much. FCSB is all right, but they're roughly as good as the mighty Aris. As long as our guys are dialed in, we should smack them around.

[Blackhawk]

German refs for this game.

If we want to have chances of progressing to next stage this is a game that we must win.

[Athens4]

ΠΑΡΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΝΙΚΗ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΜΗ ΣΑΣ ΠΑΡΕΙ Ο ΔΙΑΒΟΛΟΣ!!!

[Blackhawk]

Colley, Brandon sitting this one out due to injuries.

[Blackhawk]

Starting line up:

[Blackhawk]

For those in Greece, the game is televised live on ANT1 TV. Also for those outside Greece you can watch the game on ANT1 TV live stream with a VPN at https://www.antenna.gr/Live

[italosPAOK4]

nikh kai 3 bathmous

[Blackhawk]

Good header by Baba. 

[Blackhawk]

Taison so close.

[Blackhawk]

f***ing unbelievable. Dominating the whole first half, but not able to score. FCSB given a gift by Michailidis in the last seconds of the half goes ahead 1:0.

I can't see us turning this around. We have no clue how to score a goal.

[Dutch Eagle]

Taison should have scored. 

I can see us scoring twice playing towards G4 and take the three points. Have faith. 

[Blackhawk]

Olaru yellow. His second. FCSB with 10 players.

[Blackhawk]

Point blank chance to score by Ozdoev. Great save by goalie. Still 0:1.

[pash]

Have we even managed 50% of possession since they went down to 10 men? Pathetic performance.

[Blackhawk]

This game is more likely to finish 0:2 than us scoring.

[PaokCT]

You already know what ima say

[Soprano76]

Chalov is a f***ing bust huh 

[PaokCT]

2 straight home losses to inferior teams. Embarrassing. Lucescu must answer to these performances

[Soprano76]

lol what a clown performance. 

[Blackhawk]

Just like with Aris game we played fairly well and dominated the games. However we don't have anybody to score goals.

Another problem is Lucescu constantly playing old and tired players nonstop. There was really no reason for Taison to play today, and Baba should have been out after the first half. 

We also got unlucky with the injury to Colley and being forced to play with Michailidis, who cost us both games with his mistakes.

[paokarag4]

Awful performance, crazy how we looked more dangerous playing against 11 than we did playing against 10. Just no creativity, no drive from any of the players, moved the ball super slow which is the exact opposite of how you need to play against 10. 

I can't move past the Michailidis error to hand them their goal, a schoolboy mistake at this level and it costs us the game. The dynamic is very different at 0-0 compared to 0-1 when they get the red card. Inexcusable to dive in there and allow your opponent to skip past you. He really isn't fit to tie Koulierakis laces and he will end up being our 4th-5th choice CB by seasons end IMO. 

Tough slog to qualify now, probably safe to say top 8 and direct qualification to the round of 16 is gone. We'd almost have to win 5 out of our remaining 6 to achieve that. 

Hopefully we can bank a few wins and squeeze into the 9-24 bracket and head into the playoffs. 

[Nea Bafra]

s%$#! me rigani

[PAOKSYD]

Chalov is junk!!! 

The team looks really old, slow and also disjointed. 

Ivan is to blame for this s%$#! squad