In an action-packed international week, many PAOK players featured for their national teams:<\/p>\n
Finland-Greece 1-1<\/strong><\/p>\n Claudio Ranieri<\/strong> included Stefanos Athanasiadis<\/strong> in his starting line-up for the away encounter against Finland on Saturday. Klaus didn\u2019t score but was a constant pain for the rival defenders with his move in the box and also helped Greece defend. It wasn\u2019t a match of many scoring opportunities, however the Italian coach congratulated PAOK\u2019s striker for his 85-minute performance \u2013he was substituted by Kostas Mitroglou<\/strong> in the last stretch of the encounter. Glykos, Salpingidis, Skondras<\/strong> and Tziolis<\/strong> remained on the bench.<\/p>\n Romania-Hungary 1-1<\/strong><\/p>\n The absence of suspended Romania skipper Ciprian Marica<\/strong> presented R\u0103zvan Ra\u021b<\/strong> with the opportunity to put on the captain\u2019s armband. The influential left full-back was once again the best on the pitch. He teed up Raul Rusescu<\/strong> for the Romanian goal in the 45th minute. The Hungarians leveled in the 82nd minute with a direct free kick and didn\u2019t permit Ra\u021b to celebrate his 99th cap as he would have wanted.<\/p>\n Slovakia-Spain 2-1<\/strong><\/p>\n Miroslav Stoch<\/strong> sealed Slovakia\u2019s famous win over Spain with a\u2026 header, coming off the bench to substitute R\u00f3bert Mak<\/strong>. The latter was a constant threat for the Spaniards, missed a great opportunity to score and is going through the best spell of his career.<\/p>\n Albania-Denmark 1-1<\/strong><\/p>\n Ergys Kace<\/strong> is an important piece of the Albania team in their qualifying quest, but he remained on the bench during the encounter against Denmark.<\/p>\n Greece U19-Switzerland U19 2-2<\/strong> (friendly)<\/p>\n Koulouris, Deligiannidis<\/strong> and Tsolakidis<\/strong> were in the starting line-up of Greece U19s against their Switzerland counterparts. Deligiannidis scored the 2-2 equalizer in the 76th minute, while Koulouris was denied by the woodwork in the first half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an action-packed international week, many PAOK players featured for their national teams: Finland-Greece 1-1 Claudio Ranieri included Stefanos Athanasiadis in his starting line-up for the away encounter against Finland on Saturday. Klaus didn\u2019t score but was a constant pain for the rival defenders with his move in the box …","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":150227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,179,181,195],"tags":[3264],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n