Total Football, the pioneer PAOK, upset in Kifissia, with leader Delia – Despodov and six different goalscorers

A delightful PAOK team that delivered a football lesson beat Kifissia 6-0 in Kaisariani, with Lucescu’s players delivering total football in several moments of the game and having six different goal scorers in the biggest win of the year in the Stoiximan Super League.

Razvan Lucescu’s team were once again at the top of the table, ahead of Panathinaikos, and will end 2023 as pioneers and with an outstanding image on the pitch.

The visitors were better from the first to the last minute of the game, they left no room to react to the opponent who lined up to play… open, PAOK, he made phases, but that was perhaps the biggest mistake of Kifissia as Dikefalos found space and built a big lead with three goals in each half.

With Konstanelia, Despodov, Brandon Thomas, Murg and Ozdoev, PAOK once again found the back of the net with their usual goalscorers this season and saw Tsigara score his first goal to end the goal dance while also scoring two goals to their credit He was offside and had further finals to score more goals.

The visitors took the lead quite early in the game, in the 13th minute when Murg passed to Constantelias, who entered the penalty area, tried to place the ball, the ball found Vafeas, changed direction and ended up in Anagnostopoulos’ net.

Kifissia had two great moments with Ozegovic and Landre to equalize but failed to do so. On the other hand, in the 28th minute, Despontov made a vertical pass to Brandon Thomas, who got out four on four, calmly scored and scored two goals for PAOK.

Six minutes later, Lucescu’s team found the net again. “Delias” was the one who found Despodov in the penalty area with a beautiful ball and “poked” the ball over Anagnostopoulos.

PAOK did not change its pace in the second 45 minutes. In the 52nd minute, when Lucescu’s players switched the ball from defense to attack quickly enough, he reached a goal position with Murg, made a feint and scored to give Dikefalo a 4-0 victory over Kifissia.

The visitors scored for the fifth time after a corner from Despodov, who saw Ozdoev’s movement, sent the ball to him and the experienced midfielder beat Anagnostopoulos with a header.

The 6-0, which was the final score of the game, was scored by Tsingaras in the 80th minute in a phase in which Sastre was in position to shoot, attempted the shot, Anagnostopoulos cut off the ball’s path, Gobelic caught it before it crossed the finish line , but Tsingaras had followed the phase and scored PAOK’s sixth goal.

Lucescu makes six changes to the starting lineup

PAOK made six changes to the starting lineup compared to the game in Tripoli. Sastre, Trost-Ekong, Michailidis, Rafa Soares, Meite and Brandon Thomas returned to the lineup in place of Vieirinia, Kenziora, Koulierakis, Baba, Schwab and Samata.

Kotarski was under the goalposts, Sastre played on the right wing and Rafa Soares on the left wing, while the central defense duo consisted of Trost-Ekong and Michaelidis. Meite and Ozdoev played as a duo in midfield, with Murg playing at “10”, Despodov on the right and Constantelia on the left, while Brandon Thomas was up front.

He exploited every gap in Kifissia’s defense

Despite the changes he made in his original formation, Dikefalos went into the game fresh and decided not to give Kifissia any rights, knowing that AEK’s Northern Suburbs team had drawn and lost badly to Panathinaikos.

The home team, with Nielsen on the bench, operated in a 3-4-3 system to close the spaces to Anagnostopoulos’ goal, but PAOK took advantage of every gap they found to ‘hit’.

What is significant is that he had 15 finals, eleven of them at home, and in fact most of them came from the area of ​​Anagnostopoulos, who could do nothing about it.

In 90 minutes of the game, PAOK only had a gap of three minutes, from 17 to 20, in which it gave Kifisia the opportunity to threaten with Ozegovic and Landr, but they failed to do so.

Only PAOK on the field

From then on only Lucescu’s team was on the field until Kifisia threatened again in the 85th minute. Dikefalos scored five more goals and forced the hosts to switch their system to a 4-2-3-1, but again they failed to stop PAOK’s momentum.

The Pioneers had Despontov and Konstantelia leading the game, providing assists in addition to the goals scored. The Bulgarian gave three finished goals to his teammates Tomas, Murg and Ozdoev, while “Delias” was the one who set up Despodov’s goal.

Brandon Thomas and Murg were also close in terms of performance, although we should note that none of the players Razvan Lucescu used in the game did not lag behind.

KIFISIA: Anagnostopoulos, Masouras, Botia, Lander, Loumor (61′ Gobelic), Konstantakopoulos (61′ Pritsas, 85′ l. tr Peios), Vafeas, Papasavvas, Mateus Santos (82′ Iliev), Ozegovic, Tetei (61′ Bifuma) . .

PAOK: Kotarski, Sastre, Trost-Ekong, Michaelidis, Rafa Soares (74′ Bamba), Ozdoev (74′ Marcos Antonio), Meite (74′ Tsigaras), Despodov, Constantelias, Murg (76′ Jimas), Brandon Thomas (74′ Samata ).

Pantelis Vlachopoulos, together with Pantelis Diamantopoulos and Themis Kaisaris, commentates on the big games of the Big-4 in the Stoiximan Super League.