Razvan Lucescu was sent off in the derby with Aris and will serve out the automatically imposed one-game penalty in Sunday’s game against AEK (April 2, 7:30 p.m., NOVASPORTS PRIME, LIVE Sportish).

We should keep in mind that Lutsescu’s dismissal against Aris isn’t his first while sitting on the dikefalo bench. The Romanian coach was also sent off in his league debut for PAOK in an away game against Levadeiakos alongside then-home team coach Jose Anigo.

However, Lucescu was usually on the bench for his side in the next match against Corfu, in which he claimed his first – of many – victory in the league as coach of PAOK. And that’s because he was summoned to an apology along with Anigo, but both were acquitted.

As is the case in such cases, Razvan Lucescu will use the technology and be online with the team bench to give instructions Cristiano Bacci who coaches the players.

Lucescu’s “alter ego”.

The 47-year-old technician, born in Tuscany, Italy, is the “alter ego” anyway by Lucescu. The Italian, a graduate in accounting and librarianship, is highly organized, as is the Romanian technician, and their relationship stretches beyond the narrow confines of the first coach and his assistant.

Bacci didn’t have much of a stopping career during his years as a footballer in Italy’s lower leagues. But he quickly got involved as a coach – he has a UEFA professional diploma – and worked with Loucheskou in his first season at PAOK.

He is considered the “meter of static phases” and it was above all his skill that earned him the absolute confidence of the Romanian technician, whom he followed to Al Hilal and then to his return to Thessaloniki.

Also explosive as a character, like Lucescu, he lives the games of PAOK very intensely. After all, he was also sent off in Dikefalos games and not a few times he received yellow cards for protesting to the referees.

Bacci is a second Lucescu

He thinks of Lucescu “A great person on the pitch, able to build a team that plays top-flight football and doesn’t care too much about how the opponents are playing, only about their own team.”

Bacchi is actually a… second Lucescu on many levels. Consider how, in an interview with Italian journalist Gianluca Di Marzio, he characterized the celebrations after winning the undefeated championship and the first double in PAOK history “a popular revenge by Thessaloniki in his football match against Athens that pushes sporting boundaries“.

Also, the fact that the PAOK players won’t be able to see Razvan Lucescu when they look at their team’s bench during the game against AEK could also play a role.

What is certain, however, is that the Romanian coach, working with Bacsi and his technical team, will have prepared them for this somewhat strange state of affairs.

Panathinaikos completed their preparation for Sunday’s game (April 2, 18:00, COSMOTE SPORT 1HD and LIVE on Sportish) with Volos in a packed Leoforos for the 2nd matchday of the playoffs, then Ivan Jovanovic announced his commitment.

The Shamrock trainer saw Kourbelis, Ioannidis and Sporar training normally and reporting their presence, resulting in their? he usually has his options for playing with the Magnesia team.

Csokai is ineligible due to his red card in the derby against AEK, while Puhats is out due to a virus.

We remind you that the main shareholder of PAE, Yannis Alafouzos, was at “G. Kalafatis” today (1/4) and looked at the entire training program, while also having a short conversation with Ivan Yovanovitch.

The PAE press release in detail:

“With Saturday morning training at “G. Kalafatis” Panathinaikos’ preparations for tomorrow’s home game against Volos were complete. The Greens started with a warm-up and rondo, continued with a half-field game and concluded with training in the static phases. Puhats was absent due to illness.

After the end of training, Ivan Jovanovic announced the list of players included in the squad for the game. Brignoli, Lodingin, Xenopoulos, Vaiannidis, Huancar, Ruben, Senkefeld, Ioannidis, Kleinheisler, Sporar, Bernard, Sanchez, Tserin, Mancini, Kourbelis, Magnuson, Kotsiras, Sarlia, Palasios, Poungouras, Verbits, Kampetsis are there.

Tsokai does not have the right to participate due to the red card he received in the match against AEK.

Panathinaikos welcomes Volos on Sunday (April 2nd, 6:00 p.m., COSMOTE SPORT 1HD and LIVE on Sportish) in the sold-out Leoforos for the 2nd matchday of the playoffs of the Stoiximan Super League and nothing else is important to the people of the Cloverleaf except victory, the will keep the team at the top of the league.

The main shareholder of PAE, Yiannis Alafouzos, was today (1/4) at the training center “G. Kalafatis” and watched the entire program and also had a short conversation with the Greens coach, Ivan Jovanovits.

The content hasn’t been announced, but it shows the spirit of the rally at this crucial point in the season. Panathinaikos has a series of derbies next and the team’s strongman wanted to show the football department in his own way that he’s on their side.