{"id":872531,"date":"2025-08-22T01:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20250821-ta-panta-tha-krithoun-stin-toumba\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:56:17","slug":"20250821-ta-panta-tha-krithoun-stin-toumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20250821-ta-panta-tha-krithoun-stin-toumba\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything to be decided at the Toumba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PAOK<\/strong> went to <strong>Croatia<\/strong> aiming for victory, coming up a team with more competitive match under their belt. The visitors created chances but failed to find the net, while the home team managed to score a goal from a set-piece play to claim a narrow victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Razvan Lucescu&#8217;s<\/strong> team lined upwith the same starting XI as their previous game and <strong>PAOK<\/strong> started well, pressing their hosts and went close with an effort by <strong>Ivanusec,<\/strong> and in the 20th minute the <strong>Double-headed Eagle<\/strong> missed their best chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Konstantelias<\/strong> and <strong>A. 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