For a new breakthrough with Hearts, PAOK

The new challenge for PAOKin the European course that started in Jerusalem with Beitar, followed by the double encounters with Hajduk, goes by the name “Hearts”.

Thessalonians they face the Scottish team in Edinburgh tonightaiming to get a result with which they will hope to qualify for the Europa Conference League groups (21:45, Novasports Prime, News Bulletin 247 and sport-fm.gr).

Another high hurdle for the ‘Bicep of the North’who got past Israelis, Croatians and now face struggling Hearts, whose fans sold out for today’s clash at Tynecastle Park.

For another match there are no shortage of problems for PAOK and Razvan Lucescu, who does not count the suspended Baba Rahman, Ali Samata who stayed in Thessaloniki and Filipe Soares. As far as Magomed Ozdoev is concerned, though a lot of effort was made and from the Scottish team to get the Russian’s visa out so he can travel to Great Britain, this has not been possible and he will not play in the first match in Edinburgh.

The Romanian technician spoke about the elements needed against Hearts but also in the state of his team. “In any case we should run more than the opponent. We will have to give 150%, if we need to run more than Hearts we will“, he said characteristically.

The possible lineups

Hearts (Frankie McAvoy): Clarke, Atkinson, Kent, Rawls, Kingsley, Devlin, Denholm, Oda, Cochrane, Boyce, Shankland.

PAOK (Razvan Lucescu): Kotarski, Kenziora, Ekong, Koulierakis, Rafa Soares, Tsingaras, Schwab, Tasion, Constantelias, Andrija Zivkovic, Thomas.

Referee: Guillermo Cuadra (Spain)

First Assistant: Guadalupe Porras-Agiosso (Spain)

Second Assistant: Alejandro Iglesias (Spain)

4th referee: Miguel Angel Ortiz-Arias (Spain)

VAR: Clay Ruperti (Netherlands)

AVAR: Edwin van de Graaf (Netherlands)