Return to trainings
Vladan Ivić and his players returned to the pitch on Saturday after enjoying a day off. Garry Rodrigues had been granted a leave of absence for personal reasons and will be back to trainings on Sunday.
After enjoying Friday off and having done recuperation work on Thursday, PAOK players returned to normal training on Saturday. They started with the usual warm-up and then played tactical games in reduced space.
Fernando Varela is training alongside his teammates, completing the centre-backs quota of the team. Therefore it was announced to Dimitris Chatziisaias that he will be working out with the second group (consisting of Giannis Skondras, Erik Sabo, Terry Antonis and Panagiotis Deligiannidis).
Sunday’s training is scheduled to start at 19:00. It was also confirmed that PAOK will play a friendly match behind closed doors against Veria on Tuesday (20:00) and against Atromitos in Peristeri on Wednesday (21:15).