For the first time in five seasons, o PAOK will play Europe after the holidays.
The Thessalonians were defeated 2-0 by Lincoln and in conjunction with defeat of Slovan Bratislava with the same score from Copenhagen, advanced to the play-offs of the Europa Conference League.
Razvan Lucescu’s players scored one goal in each half, with Zivkovic and Swab to be anointed scorers.
The Romanian, however, had three players with injury problems with them El Kaddouri, Taylor and Swab to leave.
In the mind of the coach
THE Razvan Lucescu chose formation 4-3-3, with Paschalakis under the beams and Taylor, Mihai, Crespo and Siddklay in defense. On the axis, Kurtic-Swab, with Augusto playing in front of them, replacing him at the last minute El Kantouri allegedly pulled just before the crossbar. Sfinderski is the only forward, with Murg and Zivkovic at the ends.
With 4-3-3 walked and Mick McElwy, with Colling at the end, Sergant, Chipolina, Lopez, Tuscano in defense, Ronan, Yahaya, Anion in center and Brito, Gometh and Walker in front.
The match
The first opportunity may have belonged to the guests, with Walker’s shot that went out (7 ‘), but then PAOK took the reins of the match and threatened with Siddklay (9’) and Zivkovic (15 ‘).
Two minutes later it came 1-0, with the Serb scoring with a nice header after a nice ball by the Brazilian.
A foul by Walker in the 20th minute forced Paschalakis to jump to chase in a corner, with the continuation belonging to the “Bicep of the North”.
Murg had Colling block his shot in the 28th minute, with Kurtic heading out a minute later.
Augusto threatened in the 30th minute with the Lincoln goalkeeper intervening again, while the last phase came from Murg, who lost his balance in the 43rd minute before he managed to shoot well.
In the second half, PAOK maintained its dominance, with Zivkovic and Sfinderski threatening before came 2-0 in 55 ‘from an excellent header by Swab.
Then, Lucescu first Taylor and then Swab to leave injured, with the last reference point being the double missed opportunity of Biseswar in 89 ‘.
The Suriname first missed an incredible four-pointer and then saw Colling block his shot from a side position.
MVP: THE Andrija Zivkovic it was … all the money for PAOK and it was not accidental in both goals. First he scored with an excellent header, then he served with a great ball the 2-0 to Swab.
The eleven of the two teams
PAOK (R. Lutsescu): Paschalakis, Taylor (61 ‘Lyratzis), Mihai, Crespo, Siddklay, Kurtic, Swab (74’ Tsigaras), Murg, Augusto (68 ‘Biseswar), A. Zivkovic, Sfinderski (68’ Akpom).
On the bench: Z. Zivkovic, Talichmanidis, Varela, Esiti, Konstandelias.
Lincoln (M. McElwy): Koleing, Sergeant, R. Chipolina, Lopez, Toscano, Ronan (72 ‘Caralero), Yahaya, Anion, Brito (78’ Araitha), Gomez, Walker (65 ‘Ocran).
On the bench: Goldwyn, Paulino, Wiseman, Rosa.
Referee: Shanghai (Norway)
Assistants: Isaacsen, Jensen (Norway)
4th: Hagen (Norway)
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