The final training session before the trip to Nea Smyrni featured fitness drills, rondo and work on set-pieces, as well as a friendly match to wrap things up.

Abel Ferreira has all of his players at his disposal except for long-term injury victims Pontus Wernbloom, who continued his individual recovery program and Leo Jaba, who has been given special permission to go on a short break to Brazil. Jaba will continue his individual recovery program in his native homeland with PAOK’s medical team monitoring from distance and in contact with the rehabilitation center he will attend in Brazil. Jaba is scheduled to return to Thessaloniki on December 27.

Ferreira’s 19-man squad for the contest in Nea Smyrni is as follows:

Paschalakis, Zivkovic, Matos, Rodrigo,Varela, Crespo, Ingason, Giannoulis, Vierinha, Douglas Augusto, Mauricio, El Kaddouri, Misic, Esiti, Pelkas, Biseswar, Limnios, Akpom, Swiderski