Eintracht-PAOK: Championship final for the “Double Header of the North” in Frankfurt

PAOK plays its most important European game this year tonight (22:00, Cosmote Sport 6, sportfm.gr, bwinSPOR FM 94.6) in Frankfurt, which is tested against the strong Eintracht for the 5th matchday of the 7th group in the Conference League!

Thessaloniki traveled to Germany in first place in the group, with one point more than tonight’s opponents, while they will be looking for a positive result to increase their chances of finishing at the top, since for the last match they will welcome Toumba in the tail Helsinki.

PAOK is coming off a very comfortable 5-0 home win over Panserraikos last Saturday for matchday 12 of the Stoiximan Super League, completing 13 games in all competitions with just one defeat. According to the latest information, more than 7,000 PAOK fans are expected to be at “Deutsche Bank Park” tonight, giving a huge boost to Lucheskos’ team.

In competitions, the Romanian coach cannot count on the services of the injured Baba Rahmanbut he included for the first time in his mission Mark Antony, who, however, will hardly get participation time. As for the starting line-up, Rafa Soares is expected to take the Ghanaian’s place at left-back, while Murg will start in place of Constantelia, flanking Zivkovic, Tyson and Samata in the forward line.

“Eintracht is a team with very high quality, they play in the strongest league in the world, we came here to fight and qualify from first place. In any case, we must be prepared for everything, even if we play the qualification in the last matchday. After the first match and their defeat in Toumba they take us more into account, we want the qualification and we are prepared for it. It is also important how we start the match, but also how we finish”the PAOK coach said before the match, among other things.

As for the Eintracht, in its last game it was defeated for the first time at home after 15 Bundesliga matches, 2-1 by Stuttgart. He conceded a goal in the very first minute of the match, he equalized in the 26th minute, but he also conceded a second goal in stoppage time of the first half. In 7th place in the German league, tonight they only need a win to take the lead from PAOK. THE Topmeller he does not have his main stopper at his disposal, Mrwhile also left out of the mission Rode and Hauge. It will be difficult for Chandler to catch up, the starter in the league games, Max, is off the list.

Possible lineups:



Eintracht (3-4-3): Trapp – Tuta, Patso, Smolcic – Buta, Skiri, Larson, Enkunku – Knauf, Saiby, Marmus

PAOK (4-2-3-1): Kotarski – Vieirinia, Keziora, Koulierakis, Rafa Soares – Ozdoev, Meite – A. Zivkovic, Murg, Tyson – Samata

Referee: Damian Silvastrzak (Poland)

Assistants: Bartos Heinig, Adam Karasevich

Fourth: Pavel Malek

VAR: Bartosz Frankowski

AVAR: Christoph Jakubik