Volos – PAOK 0-4: Impressive Dikefalos at Panthessaliko, four against Volos and stayed second

PAOK were impressive in Magnesia, clinching a big win over Volos 4-0, with the usual suspects, Kurtic, Akpom, acting and scoring again. The Slovenian scored another goal from the penalty spot, finishing 14th of the season and remaining top of the league, while the Englishman made his debut in 2022 and is the second-best goalscorer of the season.

Lucescu also saw Sastre score on his debut, while his first goal of the year was scored by Ingason, who appears to be catching up on his pre-injury performance standards. With this victory, the team from Thessaloniki have established themselves on the second place in the table, continue victorious and now look at the game with AEK for the Greek Cup.

On the other hand, Volos, which was not closed to get the result and based on its performance, Bratso’s team could have scored after a series of positive results, suffered a defeat that leaves them in 10th place.

Lucescu four changes, Sastre button

Lucescu led his team with four changes in terms of defeating OFI in Toumba. The Romanian used Sastre in the starting line-up in the Spaniard’s debut at right-back, while he fielded Michaelides alongside Ingasson and Siddklay in place of Vierina at left end. The fourth change had to do with the selection of Biseswar instead of Augusto in the starting XI.

PAOK was better throughout the game, they had the advantage, they had quite a bit of consistency in their game and were close to their lines, escaping the pressure that Volos’ team was trying to pull out. The Thessaloniki team finished the game with 17 finals, ten home games and 2.58 goals. At this point, the hosts had 9 finals, four at home and 1.06xgoal.

Two goals on each pitch

The guests went into the game strongly from the start and tried to take the lead from the start in order to have an easier task afterwards. He failed in the two finals he had with Zivkovic and Kurtic in 2′ and 7′ and needed a pretty easy penalty to open the score.

In the 21st minute Mitritsa made the energy from the left into the penalty area, Fernandes put his foot down, found the Romanian who fell relatively easily, Papapetrou showed the white ball.

Kurtic took the final penalty and defeated Kleiman as he sent the ball down the left flank as the Volos goalkeeper fell from the right. This was the PAOK midfielder’s 14th goal this year, who has lost just one penalty this season.

After PAOK’s 1-0 and as Volos opened up their lines, Lutsescu’s team did what they wanted on the field and constantly threatened. First, in the 24th minute, Akpom sent the ball wide with a header from the small penalty area. Then again, the Englishman made the move and shot in the 26th minute but saw Kleiman block the ball.

The 2:0 for PAOK came in the 29th minute after a nice interaction with a corner kick. Zivkovic from the left took the corner kick to the first crossbar, where it was thrown in.

The first part ended with Volos having an excellent phase to reduce the goal when in 45′ Bartolo was able to shoot at the height of the small area, he made the game but Paschalakis blocked with his foot and kept the zero.

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He didn’t drop any rhythms in the second either

PAOK continued at the same pace for the second 45 minutes, with Akpom stealing the ball from Biseswar in the 52nd minute, taking possession of it, firing the shot and impressively driving Kleiman away in a corner. Eight minutes later the Englishman put the lead high over Kleiman’s goal after a parallel ball from the left. In the 61st minute, Zivkovic made the cross shot and saw the Volos goalkeeper say no.

The 0:3 for PAOK came with Sastre in the 64th minute after a corner kick by Zivkovic from the left. The ball took a strange trajectory, reaching the Spaniard, who made the shot and sent the ball to the gamma of Kleiman’s stove.

Volos’ reaction came in the 67th minute when Ferrari was in PAOK’s area from the left, chasing the shot with Paschalakis with one hand and finding the ball at the visitors’ goalkeeper’s right post.

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PAOK also scored a fourth goal with their most dangerous player in the game. Mitritsa took the ball on the left and made the parallel ball and Akpom got it right this time from close range to make it 4-0.

With the score down 0-4, Lutsescu found the opportunity to make changes, give his players some breathing space and reflect on Wednesday’s rematch of the cup with AEK.

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