The most important European game in recent history will be broadcast tonight at 22:00 by PAOK, who, with the full support of their fans, will face Marseille who will flood Toumba. Lutsescu’s eleven plan.
PAOK has an appointment with the story tonight (10:00 p.m., COSMOTE SPORT 2, LIVE from Sportish) and wants to look into it consistently. Dikefalos meet Marseille in the second quarter-finals of the Conference League and need to reverse the 2-1 defeat in France to continue his already amazing European tour this year.
Omar El Kaddouri’s goal and especially PAOK’s image in the second half at the Velontrome kept hopes alive for qualifying for the biceps. And they will fight to run away in crowded Toumba tonight. Lutsescu’s team needs a two-goal win to advance to the semi-finals of the tournament. A narrow win by a goal difference will see either side go to extra time or even penalties, while Marseille can play on two results as they qualify with a draw.
Lutsescu’s plan
Razvan Lucescu knew from the very first game what his side should avoid and where Marseille’s weaknesses lay, and he focused his side’s preparation on that. For example, his biggest complaint in the first half at the Velodrome was that his players didn’t have the clear mind to move the ball properly, which improved in the second half when Kantouri came into play.
The Moroccan will be in the starting XI of today’s game, as it seemed in the last test. The player that Lutsescu loves – as the PAOK coach said publicly in yesterday’s press conference – will start in the position behind Akpom and will be the only change regarding the first game.
Ten of them are Kantouri
The defense from Alexandros Paschalakis will be the same, with Vierinias on the left, Lyratzis on the right and Ingason and Crespo on the stoppers. Lucescu believes they reacted to the difficult conditions of the game at the velodrome and nothing will change about the four of his defense.
In midfield, the presence of Omar El Kaddouri in the starting XI will bring change. Jasmine Kurtic will be one of the two central midfielders and Douglas Augusto will play alongside. The Brazilian made one of his best performances with the PAOK shirt from the moment he returned to his natural position in the second half of the first quarterfinals. Logically, he will be the one who will start as a key player and the one who will remain on the bench will be Haris Tsigaras.
The presence of Tsuba Akpom at the head of the attack is undisputed, as is that of Andrija Zivkovic at one of its two ends. The Serb also showed that he doesn’t need much to be important in the velodrome when he backed goalscorer El Kantouri with a heel. In fact, as it always remains constant regularly, it could not miss such an important European game as tonight.
Logically, Diego Biseswar will start in the starting XI. The Surinamezos give Lutsescu confidence that he has a player who can hold the ball and move between opponents’ lines, despite the fact that tests have been carried out on Alexandrou Mitritsas.
The recipe for historical qualification
Anyone who starts as a key player, who is substituted on, knows for sure that tonight’s game against Marseille is a “final” that must be mastered with absolute concentration, competitive discipline, wits and of course intensity and passion in order to win. . These are the elements that Razvan Lutsescu asks of his players for PAOK to celebrate qualifying for the semi-finals of a European tournament for the first time in its history.
