{"id":826886,"date":"2024-10-21T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20241020-alovitos-kai-protos\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T17:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:52:53","slug":"20241020-alovitos-kai-protos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20241020-alovitos-kai-protos\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiant and top of the pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PAOK<\/strong> started the game with <strong>Kotarski<\/strong> between the posts, <strong>Kedziora<\/strong> and <strong>Lovren<\/strong> the central defensive pairing, <strong>Otto<\/strong> and <strong>Baba<\/strong> as the full-backs, <strong>Schwab<\/strong> and <strong>Ozdoev<\/strong> in central midfield, <strong>Taison<\/strong> and <strong>Zivkovic<\/strong> on the flanks of the attacking line and <strong>Murg<\/strong> in the classic No.10 position behind <strong>Chalov<\/strong> as the main striker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAOK<\/strong> started the game excellently, with the right mentality and plan, and could have found themselves in front even earlier than the 16th minute, when they eventually did make the breakthrough. In the 14th minute, <strong>Ozdoev<\/strong> hit a shot on the move from <strong>Taison&#8217;s<\/strong> assist, but the ball came back off the post. Two minutes later, however, from <strong>Zivkovic&#8217;s<\/strong> corner and with a double effort &#8211; after <strong>Chalov&#8217;s<\/strong> first header &#8211; <strong>Baba<\/strong> sent the ball into the back of the net to make it 1-0 to the visitors. The <strong>Double-headed Eagle<\/strong> continued to threaten, going close in the 18th minute with <strong>Ozdoev<\/strong> and then immediately after through <strong>Zivkovic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Razvan Lucescu&#8217;s<\/strong> team clearly had the momentum of the match, they were the best team out on the pitch, but in the 25th minute, <strong>AEK<\/strong> managed to equalize with a goal out of nowhere from <strong>Piero<\/strong>. Despite the equalizer, <strong>PAOK<\/strong> did not lose their composure, and they absorbed the <strong>Union&#8217;s<\/strong> pressure, with <strong>Kotarski<\/strong> having the answer to <strong>Rota&#8217;s<\/strong> effort in the 38th minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, the tempo of the game dropped, <strong>PAOK<\/strong> kept the ball longer, although in general there were few big scoring chances. <strong>Lucescu<\/strong> was forced to replace <strong>Baba<\/strong>, who began to feel some discomfort due to an injury, with <strong>Colley<\/strong> coming on in the 62nd minute to change the defensive structure, <strong>Kedziora<\/strong> moving to right back and <strong>Otto<\/strong> to the left. At the same time, <strong>Chalov<\/strong> gave way for <strong>Brandon,<\/strong> who made his long-awaited return to action after his injury.<\/p>\n<p>The game had plenty of dynamism, there were some intense duels going on, but it lacked a big chance from either side, apart from an effort from <strong>Zivkovic<\/strong> in the 67th minute. Then, <strong>Konstantelias<\/strong> and <strong>Kamara<\/strong> came on in place of <strong>Murg<\/strong> and <strong>Ozdoev,<\/strong> respectively, while one minute before the 90th minute, <strong>Despodov<\/strong> replaced <strong>Taison<\/strong>. Nothing changed, though essentially, <strong>PAOK<\/strong> remained in control until the end, even in the three minutes of stoppage time, and they finally left <strong>Athens<\/strong> with a well-earned point, now turning their attention to the <strong>European<\/strong> game against <strong>Viktoria Plzen<\/strong> at the <strong>Toumba<\/strong> <strong>Stadium<\/strong> for Matchday 3 of the <strong>League Phase <\/strong>of the <strong>2024-25 UEFA Europa League.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Convincing and dangerous, well read and with the right mentality, PAOK left Nea Philadelphia unscathed and top of the table, after a game they could easily have won but in the end had to settled for a draw.","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":826827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,5],"tags":[2386,2435,2608,4360,15910],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.5.1 - 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