{"id":710493,"date":"2022-10-17T23:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20221017-niki-valsamo\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T02:02:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T23:02:46","slug":"20221017-niki-valsamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20221017-niki-valsamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory balsam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against gods and demons, injuries and bad luck, and even the referee and VAR, <strong>Lucescu&#8217;s<\/strong> men held on to remain in the top five of the standings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAOK<\/strong> started the match ideally, and by building attacks with confidence from the back, the visitors managed to create defensive imbalances for <strong>Olympiacos<\/strong>. <strong>Omar El Kaddouri&#8217;s<\/strong> early effort was a warning shot, before a corner swung in by <strong>Marios Tsaousis<\/strong> in the ninth minute brought the opening goal for the Double-headed Eagle after home defender <strong>Papastathopoulos<\/strong> accidentally headed into his own goal.<\/p>\n<p>At that point and without <strong>Olympiacos<\/strong> pressing much, some nervousness and individual mistakes lead to the home side getting in a good position in <strong>Kotarski&#8217;s<\/strong> penalty area. The hosts tried to break <strong>PAOK&#8217;s<\/strong> defensive line from the wings, and on one such foray forward a cross was swung in by <strong>Reabciuk<\/strong>, and <strong>James Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> rose to meet the ball perfectly to equalize with a header in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The second half saw <strong>PAOK<\/strong> hungry for another goal. And this time they got what they deserved for their efforts. <strong>Khaled Narey<\/strong> received <strong>Lyratzis&#8217;<\/strong> smart pass inside the box and the <strong>German<\/strong> then sent an arching shot into the top corner of the young <strong>Tzolakis&#8217;<\/strong> net.<\/p>\n<p>And the modest resistance from the home side would have come to an end even earlier if match official <strong>Treimanis<\/strong> hadn&#8217;t made an incredible &laquo;backflip&raquo; for what looked to be the most obvious penalty after <strong>Oliveira<\/strong> was sandwiched by <strong>Ba<\/strong> and <strong>Tzolakis<\/strong>. <strong>VAR<\/strong> made the call to him and instead of apologizing for wasting his time, the <strong>Latvian<\/strong> vindicated the <strong>VAR<\/strong> official by taking back the penalty that would have been given even by\u2026 <strong>Valbuena<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This time the <strong>PAOK<\/strong> players kept their cool though, and the final score did not change, with <strong>PAOK<\/strong> getting what they deserved. 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