On Thursday evening (April 14, 10:00 p.m., COSMOTE SPORT 2HD and LIVE on Sportish) PAOK will be playing one of the most important games in its history in Toumba. For the first time he comes so close to reaching the semi-finals of a European tournament.

It is very important that the road is open to reach the end. In the next round, in the semifinals of the tournament, the draw dashboard pits PAOK against the team that will qualify, the Slavia Prague-Feyenoord pair. So it goes without saying that Lutsescu’s players will have no more difficult task than overtaking Marseille. If they are successful, they can even win a European Cup.

Super League accepted PAOK’s request to postpone their match against Olympiakos. Lucescu and his players also had time to freshen up and prepare their plans for the grand final.

Don’t fall into the trap

The standard football analysis will be carried out for the game in my next text. The most important thing is that PAOK fans don’t fall into the trap. After what happened on the streets of Marseille, all eyes will be on Toumba. Sampaoli’s children are not the best, they are educated and they know well how to seize every opportunity to light an away game and become the victims.

They have done it many times in the past. The management of PAOK must be in direct communication with the fans of the team all these days and make sure that this game can only open and not close doors for Dikefalos’ European recognition.

Paget also plays with the podium

The fact that Marseille fans don’t travel poses a serious risk. The desperate PAOK fans, who experienced violence in Marseille a few days earlier, see the Marseille mission as the only target for retribution. There is also the following reality, which I know well because I have seen the French championship. Paget has become a target in most stadiums in France when taking corners.

Often, especially when the game isn’t going well, he reacts badly. He gestures in the stands, sending back objects, exploits and exploits for the benefit of his team so that no one will blame the footballer who attacked first in his own space for how he reacts when his physical integrity is at risk. The French player has a way of pushing a podium to the limit and no one has the right to tell him the slightest thing as he simply knows how to make better use of anyone he’s the victim.

UEFA’s eyes are on Toumba

I mention it with caution because with what PAOK’s friends have endured making Toumba fire is dangerous for any reaction they receive and eventually an opportunity for the team to spread their wings to avoid conditions for a severe create punishment. It takes restraint and knowledge that UEFA is lurking for PAOK to win from this game. Why, even if he doesn’t manage to make it to the quarterfinals of the European tournament in the end, going first to Midtjylland, then Ghent and fighting Marseille are great achievements in themselves.

We mustn’t forget that all of this is happening in a year that didn’t start well, that mistakes were made in the summer and that there’s a lot of room for quality improvement in the squad. So you understand that with the work of Lutsescu, PAOK managed to start the next season from a very good starting position and not to jeopardize everything.

Her love for PAOK is a priority

I’m writing all this because I know that PAOK’s friends had a difficult time in Marseille and I know very well that Marseille players have the rare ability to turn a spark into fire. More importantly than the competition part, those who go to Toumba on Thursday put their love for PAOK first.

Those who traveled to Marseille to be able to put what happened behind them and to be careful not to punish the team and with the atmosphere that is created, the Lutsescu players in the great effort they have to make, to push get the qualification. Football analysis will be in tomorrow’s text. However, it is more important that what happened in Marseille is not the reason for punishing PAOK to become UEFA in episodes that take place in the stadium is not a joke.