PAOK: Historic streak in wins and goals

As if there was no interruption, o PAOK fast forward from… 2023 and defeated OFI 4-0 staying top of the Stoiximan Super League. At the same time he extended some impressive and at the same time historic streaks.

Now his team Razvan Lucescu has scored at least three goals in each of the last five league games (5-0 vs. Panserraikos, 3-0 vs. Lamia, 1-4 vs. Asteras, 0-6 vs. Kifisia and 4-0 vs. OFI), which only another once in its history.

It was in the spring of 1998, when the “Two-Headed of the North” had successively 3-2 with Panileiakos, 6-1 with Panionio, 4-4 with Apollon Smyrnis, 4-1 with Panachaiki and 1-3 with Veria, until it stopped the streak of the National winning in Toumba (0-1).

At the same time, PAOK scores 4+ goals in three consecutive league matches for the first time since 2000. At that time he had finished the championship with 3-4 against Apollon Smyrnis, 5-0 against Kavala and 3-5 in Trikala.

The Thessalonians have noted this year at least three goals in 13 of the 19 different teams they have faced and they have 18 different scorers. Only against AEK (2-0) and Ari (0-0) have they not found the net!

The eight consecutive victories of PAOK in the league is his best run in the league since the 2018/19 unbeaten league season, when he went on a nine-game winning streak from 11 October to 30 January, before his streak was snapped in a 1-1 draw with AEK at OAKA on 3 February. This is also the record in his history and he will break it if he wins the matches with Aris away and PAS Ioannina at home that follow.

On an individual level, Kirill Despodov reached 7 goals and 10 assists in his first 20 appearances with PAOK in all competitions. In fact, Voulgaros became the first footballer in the history of the league (and since this statistic exists) with three assists in two consecutive league games, since before yesterday, he had given as many in the 0-6 against Kifissia.