The Egaleo welcomes PAOK to “Stavros Mavrothalassitis» (15:30, Cosmote TV, sport-fm.gr, News Bulletin 247), in the first match between them for the round of 16 phase of the Greek Cup.
His team Razvan Lucescu is the clear favorite in the pair and wants to clean up the qualification from the very first game, at the same time returning to victories, after the negative results in the league and Europe.
After the break, the North’s Doubleheaders played against AEK at the OPAP Arena (1-1), while in the end they avoided defeat by Victoria Plzen (2-2) for the Europa League. A week that ended in the worst possible way and with the shock defeat by OFI in Toumba, which even came with a twist in the last 20 minutes of the match.
The… changed PAOKas the Romanian coach will line up his team with several changes in the starting line-up, he is looking for more than victory and a good performance. Kotarski, Tsiftsis, Otto, Koli, Baba, Ozdoev, Tyson and Brandon Thomas stayed in Thessaloniki.
He is expected to make his debut Pavlenkataking the position of the Croatian goalkeeper under the goalposts, while Sastre, Michailidis, Gomez and Soretire will also be out of the starting line-up. The young man will also get time to participate Dimitris Kottasas well as Ali Samata.
The mission of the Two-Headed in detail: Pavlenka, Balomenos, Monastirlis, Vieirinia, Sastre, Kenziora, Lovren, Michaelidis, Kottas, Gomez, Thymianis, Bakayoko, Kamara, Schwab, Constantelias, Soretire, Zivkovic, Despodov, Murg, Tisundali, Chalov and Samata.
On the other hand, the Egaleo will fight for the best against last year’s champions of Greece, with Charalambidis not counting on the injured Daviotis, Konstantakopoulos and Macalister. To these was added that of Giulis, who left injured in the match against Panargeiakos.
The western suburbs side have made a good start in Super League 2 as they have 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses in 6 matches and are in 5th place in Group B with 8 points. The burden on the blue and whites obviously falls on the league, however they will try to be as competitive as possible against the PAOK.
Possible lineups:
Egaleo: Kyritsis, Karriki, Karvounis, Varkas, Evangelou, Tampas, Kostopoulos, Dritsas, Babis, Tsoukalos, Ungialidis
PAOK: Pavlenka, Sastre, Thymianis, Michaelidis, Gomez, Bakayoko, Soretire, Despontov, Murg, Tisundali, Chalov.
Source: Sport Fm
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