On January 22, Toumba will host the 7th round match of the Europa League main round, where PAOK will face Betis. The match will start at 19.45 Kyiv time.

PAOK

The team managed to regain the championship in 2024. However, they could not defend themselves again and fell to third place in the Super League last spring. Now the entire top three can be seen quite clearly and the Thessaloniki representative’s chances of success are about the same as their old rivals Olympiacos and AEK.

At the same time, Razvan Lucescu’s team is also competing in the Europa League. We started the summer there with qualifiers where we eliminated Wolfsberg and Rijeka back to back and we couldn’t score in the first legs with both of them but won the return matches. We already started the main tour poorly; We lost 0:0 against Maccabi Tel Aviv and against Celta. But then we won twice and ended in a draw, so we still have a chance to get into the play-offs, but we need to win and the opponents in January are as difficult as possible.

Betis

The club is stable under current coach Pellegrini. He and his players were constantly participating in European competitions. Last season the Spaniards played in the most modest of them all, the Conference League, but they reached the final there. And they also finished sixth in the Sample. Now they maintain the level there, at least they do not hesitate to repeat the result in 2024/2025.

In the Europa League, the Spaniards calmly and confidently pass the main round. Only Nottingham Forest and Genk shared points with them, resulting in a draw. The remaining matches, including against Lyon, were won. So the Sevilla team will definitely continue to fight for the cup in the spring. However, to skip the preliminary round, you need to guarantee a top 8 finish.

Statistics of personal meetings

Although the clubs frequently qualify for European competitions, they had never faced each other before this Thursday.

To guess

bookmakers GGBET They predict the teams’ chances with very good odds: 2.36 for PAOK and 3.30 for Betis. It’s up to you to decide which prediction to choose. Play with the best odds, get instant payouts and support your favorite team with us.

Bookmakers believe that both sides have almost the same chances of success here. However, the guest team does not want to lose for the first time in this league in Greece; We bet on their victory with 0 handicap (odds – 1.93).

Prediction Sport.ua

PAOK

January 22, 2026 –

19:45

Betis

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Journalist for the respected French publication Le Parisien Laurent Perrin I appreciated the performance of the Ukrainian national team defender Ilya Zabarny After moving to PSG:

“Did the attempt to sign Zabarny fail? It’s too early to say. He’s only been here for five months and he’s 23, which is pretty young for a centre-back where experience is so important.

He played only ten minutes against Sporting in Lisbon (1:2), but Alisson Santos easily overtook him in one of the segments. What can be said for sure today?

Zabarny was too slow to play as a right-back and Luis Enrique did him no favors by playing him on the wing.

As for the rest, let’s give it a little more time. One thing is clear: those who believed that Zabarny would oust Marquinhos from the starting eleven are now silent.

Even if the Ukrainian player improves his position and his game by playing with other attacking players, he will no longer be able to gain speed. This is the real problem.

We still remember the terrible one-on-one match he had with Mbappe during the French team’s second goal against the Ukrainian team in early September. That day we saw exactly what distinguishes a Ukrainian from a high level (lack of speed),” Perren concluded.

Zabarny played 23 matches at club level this season and scored one goal in these matches. The 23-year-old defender’s contract expires in June 2030 and his transfer fee is 50 million euros.

This is not the first season that the Ukrainian national team has had a striker problem. One of them is there, the second one plays very little at the club, and the third one is injured. And this happened more than once. Famous football expert Oleg Fedorchuk expressed his opinion on this issue in an exclusive interview with the website Meta.ua.

“I have long said that one or two football players from the Ukrainian championship should be promoted to show that the path to the national team is open to everyone,” Fedorchuk said. he said. – But Sergei Rebrov is a conservative mentor, he has little variability, especially in the attack group. It may be possible to try one of the artists such as Igor Krasnopir, Egor Tverdokhlib, and not to mention Philip Budkovsky, who could be useful given his parameters and the power play of the Swedes. These are football players who consistently perform for their clubs. Moreover, they all work well on the second floor.

Let us also remind you that Sergei Rebrov’s team will play the 2026 World Cup qualifying tournament semi-final play-off match against Sweden on March 26. The winner of this match in the final will face the winner of the match between Poland and Albania on March 31 for the right to advance to the final part of the tournament.