The squad for the match against OFI
In the midst of so many consecutive matches, the word preparation for any team should be written within quotation marks. Well, at least in terms of the fitness and the athletic part of things. Why? Because it’s more about management, maintenance and staying energetic. Everything else comes down to psychology.
PAOK is a team that’s learned to live on the edge and has managed to build up its immune system to be able to react and continually prove its mettle. This is also true of Sunday’s match against OFI. Because in the same way as one game is not enough to ruin everything, one match is not enough to forget anything either.
Against a team that has learned and thrives on playing good football, PAOK are called upon once more to show the same intensity and will to win to get another three points. In this effort, Abel Ferreira will be deprived of the services of Dimitris Pelkas , who is sidelined after feeling a twinge in his quad muscles during the final training session.
In contrast, Messrs Vierinha and Ingason are included in the squad, while Omar El Kaddouri also returns to the fold for the first time since his injury sidelined him towards the end of 2019. The 19 players selected by the Portuguese coach are as follows:
Paschalakis, Zivkovic, Matos, Rodrigo, Varela, Ingason, Mihaj, Giannoulis, Vieirinha , Douglas, Mauricio, Misic, Esiti, El Kaddouri, Biseswar, Lamprou, Limnios, Swiderski, Akpom.
