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With a wide spin from Lucescu to victory
With many changes, PAOK will play in-game with Ionikos, however, his goal is to add three more points to his harvest.
PAOK continues to play every three days in all competitions and it is logical that Razvan Lucescu tries in every possible way to give relief to the strained players. Dikefalos meets Ionikos this afternoon in Toumba (5:15 p.m. Novasports 2HD, LIVE from Sportish), has to give the postponed derby with AEK in OAKA in the middle of the week and his commitments for the first game with Gent in the 16th of the Conference League that end normal duration of the championship away against Lamia.
First of all, the Romanian coach can’t count on injured Oliveira, Akpom and Murg and penalized Kurtic, while he left out Andrija Zivkovic, Douglas Augusto and Angel Crespo who have to face a case. It goes without saying that if most of them were in action, they would probably start in the starting XI. However, the coach of PAOK has to present a competitive team even with so many absentees.
Who will be the first 11 of the Romanian
Logically, in defense against Paschalakis, Sastre, Ingason, Michailidis and Siddklay will fight. In midfield, where Kurtic is missing again, Tsigaras starts, Swab replaces the Slovenian and Soares replaces Augusto.
There are also most question marks in midfield. Zampa, Mitritsa and Kantouri claim the two positions at the ends while Tsolak, who scored for 120 minutes in the game against Midtjylland, will logically be back at the front of the attack. Unless Lutsescu decides to trust young Giorgos Koutsias.
Despite the rotation his coach will make, PAOK will look to add three more points to his crop. Also, as Razvan Lucescu pointed out, the team has achieved its goals in all three competitions, but so far has not achieved any of them.
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