PAOK-Eintracht: In the packed Toumba for the qualification stage, the “two-headed man of the North”

A big European game awaits a packed Toumba on Thursday night, with PAOK to welcome Eintracht Frankfurt in the context of the 2nd matchday of its groups European Conference League (05/10, 22:00), in which he wants victory to remain alone at the top of the 7th group.

The match will be broadcast on television by Cosmote Sport 5 HD, on the radio by News Bulletin 247, while there will be live updates from sport-fm.gr.

First off, the ‘Northern double-header’ is coming off a strong week, following a 2-2 draw against Panathinaikos where he lost the victory out of his hands after conceding a goal in the last second of stoppage time, as well as with the complaints he had about the refereeing Razvan Lucescu. The “black and white” in the competition part had many problems in their blocking function as they could not block the creation of opportunities of the “green”, however they got an excellent grade in the counterattacks they attempted with Tyson’s protagonists, Constantia and Zivkovic.

In the European obligations, the whole of the Romanian technician entered with the right, winning in Finland with 3-2 on Helsinkiin a match with many changes of emotions, as in the first half PAOK did not have clear thinking and were prone to easy mistakes, but in the replay with the leading Kirill Despodovwho had a goal and an assist, came within three points of victory.

As for tonight’s game, according to the “black and white” reporterDimitris Tsorbatzoglou, Lucescu will choose a duo in their midfield Meite-Ozdoev and he expects to see a good picture, since among other things, the stakes of the game are quite high. At the same time, he emphasized that the Vierinia and Samata will get a starting jersey, while the rest who competed in the Leoforos derby will keep their places on the pitch.

Felipe Soares is out, Mark Antony who are dealing with injury issues like the Shastres, Nasberg which is outside the European list. PAOK’s mission in detail: Zivkovic, Koarsky, Vieirinia, Lyratzis, Kentziora, Ekong, Michaelides, Koulierakis, Baba, Rafa Soares, Tsingaras, Svab, Ozdoev, Melet, Murg, Konstantalia, Konstantilia

On the other hand, Eintracht Frankfurt is not in a good moon, makes a bad start in Bundesliga and wants to take advantage of the fight in Tuba in order to take a qualification step, but also to improve her psychology in view of the continuation.

Last Saturday (30/09) the “eagles” were defeated 2-0 by Wolfsburgwhere they did not manage to claim anything more at any point of the match, while at the beginning of the second half they were left with one player less with his dismissal Mario Gotze. In the scoreboard, Eintracht is in 9th place with seven points. On the other hand, in the Europa Conference League he made a good start and won 2-1 against the Aberdeenthus equaling PAOK at the top of the group.

In the data of the match with the Thessaloniki team, he was left out of the mission Mario Gotze who requested a special permit to remain in Germany, due to the birth of his child, but also Lucas Alario, plagued by constant injuries. The left back is also out, Philip Max who is also injured, while on the contrary, the mission included Makoto Hasebe whose participation in the match will be decided at the last moment.

The mission of Eintracht: Trapp, Graal, Gower, Patso, Koch, Smolcic, Hasebe, Chandler, Buta, Enkunku, Tuta, Baum, Jakic, Saibi, Skiri, Larsson, Edibe, Aaronsson, Knauf, Marmus, Engankam, Hauge, Ferry.

Possible compositions:

PAOK (Razvan Lucescu): Kotarski – Vieirinia, Koulierakis, Ekong, Baba – Ozdoev, Meite – Zivkovic, Constantelias, Tyson – Samata

Eintracht Frankfurt (Dino Topmeller): Trapp – Tuta, Koch, Patso – Buta, Larson, Skiri, Entibe – Saibi, Engankam – Marmus.

Referee: Simone Sozza (Italy)

Assistants: Alberto Tegoni, Giovanni Bacchini (Italy)

4th: Andrea Colombo (Italy)

VAR: Maurizio Mariani (assistant Valerio Marini) (Italy)