Even more passable is his path PAOK for the newly established League Phase of the Champions League after the winning the title from Real. Last night’s development brings Shakhtar directly into the League Phase, and from the “crabs” the Greek champions avoid another team with a higher coefficient than their potential opponents in the playoffs. In fact, if Dinamo Zagreb had not won the title in Croatia at the end of the season, PAOK would have gone directly to the third qualifying round and would have secured a place in at least the Europa League.
In detail, Andreas Dimatos states in his post:
– With the third best coefficient in the entire Champions Path for the 5 tickets in the new League Stage of the competition, PAOK will finally participate, something that I don’t remember has happened again in the past with a Greek team!
-With Real Madrid winning the Champions League, the Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk bid farewell to the qualifying process and taking advantage of their high coefficient (the highest of the country’s female champions from 11th to 55th place) took a direct place in the 29th groups with direct participation!
-If Dinamo Zagreb (promoted to the playoffs from the second qualifying round to fill Shakhtar’s gap) had not overtaken Rijeka at the turn, just before the final to win the title in Croatia, PAOK would have… jumped two qualifiers and would start from the playoffs with a guaranteed minimum in the Europa League!
-With the completion of the final in London, the group of candidates for PAOK’s opponents in the second qualifying round of the Champions League was finalized (draw on June 19) with the first match on July 23 or 24 and the second leg on the 30 or 31!
-These are: Jagiellonia (Polish champion) and the pairs from the first qualifier of Flora Tallinn (Estonia), Steaua (Romania), Klaxvik (Faroe), Shamrock Rovers (Ireland), Lincoln (Gibraltar), The New Saints (Wales) ), Punic Yerevan (Armenia), Riga (Latvia), Petrocube (Moldova), Balkani (Kosovo) and Borac Banja Luka (Bosnia)
-With the current data and without the differences of any exclusions in the first qualifying round, the candidate opponents of PAOK in the third qualifying round will be: Ludogorets, Midland, Sparta Prague, Malmo, APOEL and Helsinki together with their opponents from the second qualifying round
– In the playoffs, PAOK avoids – no matter what – Dinamo Zagreb, Red Star, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ferencvaros if the last two get there!
-With the current data, his five potential opponents will be Young Boys and Galatasaray (unless there are disqualifications in the second qualifier and they go up to the strong ones) and then based on a coefficient, Karabagh, Slovan Bratislava, Bodo Glimt, if they manage to get there.
-If not… the runners-up are the champions who follow in the coefficient such as Ludogorets, Midland, Sparta Prague, Malmo or even APOEL, if the Cypriot champion manages to reach the playoffs
– It is noted that if PAOK makes one qualification during the summer, it will be in the League Stage of the Conference, if it makes two it secures the Europa League Stage and of course with three out of three it will qualify for the first time in its history in the Champions League
-If he succeeds, in the Monaco draw at noon on August 29 he will know his eight different opponents (four in Toumba and four away) from the third capacity group!
Source: Sport Fm
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