{"id":591211,"date":"2020-09-15T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20200915-to-taxidi-pros-to-oneiro-sunixetai\/"},"modified":"2020-09-15T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:56:31","slug":"20200915-to-taxidi-pros-to-oneiro-sunixetai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20200915-to-taxidi-pros-to-oneiro-sunixetai\/","title":{"rendered":"The dream continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent <strong>PAOK<\/strong> side looked their <strong>Portuguese <\/strong>opponents between the eyes and produced a determined and clever display. The home side hit the visitors where it hurts when they were given the opportunities to earn a historic qualification, against a team who have eliminated PAOK on two previous ocassions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abel Ferreira<\/strong> put his faith in the same starting XI which overcame <strong>Larissa<\/strong>, with only one change &#8211; <strong>Jose Crespo<\/strong> replacing <strong>Diego Biseswar <\/strong>at right back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAOK<\/strong> began the match strongly, trying to surprise <strong>Jorge Jesus&#8217; <\/strong>team, but the hosts did not manage to get an early goal. From the 10th minute onwards, the <strong>Portguese<\/strong> gained control of the game and dominated possession for long spells, while also missing several good chances to open the scoring, and also hit the post through <strong>Pizzi&#8217;s<\/strong> direct free-kick as the Double-headed Eagle&#8217;s defence lead by <b>Zivko Zivkovic <\/b>held firm.<\/p>\n<p>After soaking up that first-half pressure, <b>Ferreira&#8217;s<\/b> team began to threaten more in the second half as they went in search of a goal. Zivkovic then made a great save from Everton when clean through on goal after 57 minutes in what proved to be one of the key moments of the match. Shortly afterwards, on 65 minutes, <strong>Dimitris Giannoulis <\/strong>surged forward impressively before releasing <strong>Akpom<\/strong>, and the <strong>Englishman<\/strong> in turn got to the byline before squaring the ball perfectly for onrushing PAOK defender to prod the ball home with a little help from <strong>Benfica <\/strong>defender <strong>Vertongen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the goal, the <strong>Double-headed Eagle<\/strong> stuck to their game place, and doubled the advantage on 75 minutes. <strong>Andrija Zivkovic<\/strong>, who came off the bench during the second half, hurt his former teammates with a composed finish from <b>Giannoulis&#8217; <\/b>to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Portguese<\/strong> peppered the <strong>PAOK<\/strong> penalty area with crosses and passes in the closing minutes, with <strong>Zivkovic<\/strong> making two more good saves before he was finally beaten four minutes into added time by <strong>Rafa Silva&#8217;s <\/strong>header. 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