Lucescu’s plans for the match with Atromitos are an unsolved mystery

In his comments on the subscription channel for the PAOK game against Atromitos (February 13, 5:15 p.m., Novasports 2HD, live from Sportish), Razvan Lucescu also explained the reasoning with which he had to get through phases like his team with many critical games in Consequence.

“When you have to play in the league, European cup and cup, you usually need all the players and the whole group“, said the biceps trainer.

What is the situation at PAOK ahead of the Atromitos game? Oliveira stays in the pits, El Kaddouri is caught off guard. There are two active coronavirus cases in the group without it being known who they are.

The “columns” of PAOK, Ingason and Kurtic are out of mission and there is only one striker in it, Akpom, since Tsolak and Koutsias are unavailable. And finally, Varela and Esiti stay out of the plans.

With this data, one can only speculate about the line-up that Razvan Lucescu will field, other than, of course, the certainty that Tsuba Akpom will play at the forefront of attack.

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Beyond that everything is open. Paschalakis will stand under the bars of Dikefalos, Sastre and Lyratzis claim the position on the right side of defence, Siddklay and Vierinia on the left, while Mihai, Michailidis and Crespo argue for the duo in the stoppers.

With Kurtic absent, Tsigaras and Swab will logically be the central midfielders while there are also questions about the trio behind the England striker. It seems a given that Zivkovic will get a base shirt and the other two will be wanted.

It is very likely that Murg will start on the axis and Mitritsa on the left, however there is a possibility that other combinations will be made with either Biseswar or August. Or even Filipe Soares.

What is certain is that the decisions Lucescu will make will shape his thoughts for the first game against Midtjylland (17/2) in Denmark.