PAOK escaped from Agrinio with a savior Kamara!

He “unlocked” Panaitolikos with Kamara and Zivkovic o PAOK! The Agriniotes lit up… red in the “bicephalo of the North” for 87′, but the 27-year-old midfielder, with a nice assist from the Serb from a corner kick, scored a goal-three points.

Missed penalty with Maidevac the hosts had in the 23rd minute, who managed to significantly limit the guests, who did not pay for the many cheap mistakes they made. As well as their absences Despodoff, Tyson, and Thomas.

In the minds of the coaches

With 3-5-2 Panaitolikos. Chaves in the goal, Sielis, Pantelakis and Stagits in defense. The entire right side was occupied by Bakakis, the left side by Torrejon, with Peres, Bouzoukis and Liava being the trio in midfield. Lahoud and Mainevich were on the strike line.

With 4-2-3-1 PAOK. Kotarski was in goal, Kenziora and Michaelidis were the stoppers, with Sastre (right) and Otto (left) being the backs. Schwab and Kamara in the midfield, Zivkovic and Soretire in the “wings”, with Murg as a staff member behind Chalov.

The match:

THE PAOK entered the match strongly and only in the 2nd minute had a good chance. Soretire came face-to-face with Chaves after Bakakis’ inaction, with Chaves conceding a corner.

In the first minutes the “two-headed man of the North” he was in control of the situation and gradually the hosts started to warm up offensively and in the 10th minute they had their first good effort. Bakakis crossed, Torrejon got on the back of Živkovic, but he couldn’t get it right and the Serb cleared.

In the 14th minute, Lahoud made a nice shot, sending the ball just past Kotarski’s goal, with the match gaining a very nice pace at that point. With the same player the home side looked to threaten three minutes later, but his shot from inside the area and left ended up on bodies.

At that point, Panaitolikos put a lot of pressure on PAOK’s defense and they actually had it missed penalty. In the 21st minute Maidevats maneuvered, Michaelidis took his legs and Tsakalides who was nearby pointed directly to the white ball. The Serbian striker took it up, but his powerful strike was off target, sending the ball to Kotarski’s right-hand side, who picked it right. Sastre’s shot from outside the area was blocked by Chavez shortly after.

Panaitolikos he had a huge opportunity and in the 32nd minute to open the scoring. Liavas made a terrible transfer from the defense for Lahoud, the ball found the back of Michaelidis and was laid to the ace of the home team, who could not beat Kotarski from close range, who kicked for a corner.

On the other side PAOK had difficulty gaining ground and it is typical that after Soretire’s chance in the 2nd minute he had three carbon attempts with low shots outside the area. After Otto’s at 15′ and Sastre’s at 26′, Murg’s followed at 43′.

PAOK he sought to dictate his pace with the beginning of the second part. He had more possession, he had tension, but he struggled to break down the opposing defense, with Panaitolikos well fortified at the back. In the way that, as mentioned above, he tried to threaten in the first part, the first final of the “Northern doubleheader” came after the break. With Sastre making a very mistimed shot outside the area in the 54th minute.

Four minutes later, PAOK made it 1-0 with Otto to face Chavez after Constantelia’s ball (with Chalov and Soretite not being able to execute), he crossed and the goalkeeper of Panaitolikos chased away. In the development of the phase, Kamara went to take advantage, but the opposing goalkeeper collected.

Immediately after, after another mistake by PAOK (Kamara), o Lahoud went head-to-head with Kotarski, with the Croat emerging victorious. Somewhere there the collected changes started, which had the result that the rhythm was broken in the first phase, with this condition favoring Panaitolikos.

Seeing him PAOK that over time he was getting expectedly more risksPanaitolikos bet a lot on the counter attack. As in the several mistakes of the “bi-head of the North”. Somehow he went menacingly into the area in the 75th minute, but Luis Miguel’s shot was tragic.

THE PAOK reached 1-0 in the 80′, with Baba making a nice cross to Živkovic, who shot into the tight corner (and the ball was countered), with Chavez clearing with his feet. Lucescu’s team pressed, but struggled to get a phase beyond the one with the Serb.

OR redemption for PAOK it came in 87′. Živkovic made a great corner kick from the left, O Arch nice jump and head beat Chavez.

The film of the fight

MVP: It doesn’t need much thought… Kamara. He may not have been PAOK’s best player overall and made some mistakes in the center, but his goal in the 87th minute was “golden” for the “two-headed man of the North”.

Whistle: Apart from the penalty phase that was given in the 21st minute, there is no phase to stop, as the other cases were offsides which were also checked in the VAR. Tsakalides was close to the phase and saw that there is contact low in the marking of Michaelides to Maindevacs.

Panaitolikos (Yiannis Petrakis): Chaves – Sielis, Pantelakis, Stagitis – Bakakis (63′ Mavrias), Bouzoukis (63′ Lewis), Peres, Liavas, Torrejon, Lahoud (81′ Belevonis), Maindevacs (63′ Lomonaco)

Left on the bench were: Pardalos, Kontouris, Palma, Agapakis, Nikolaou

PAOK (Razvan Lucescu): Kotarski – Sastre (62′ Baba), Kenziora, Michaelidis, Otto – Schwab (62′ Ozdoev), Kamara – Zivkovic, Murg (46′ Constantelias), Soretire (69′ Tisundali) – Chalov (62′ Samata)

Left on the bench were: Balomenos, Vieirania, Lovren, Gomes

Referee: Alexandros Tsakalides

Assistants: Papadakis, Kolliakos

Fourth: Nikolaos Georgopoulos

VAR: Fotias, Antoniou