FORM GUIDE
PAOK have already performed 9 video games in Europe this season, defeating Shamrock Rovers in a play-off tie to make it to the league part of this competitors.
After slender defeats to Galatasaray and FCSB, they got here from two objectives down to attract 2-2 with Viktoria Plzen final trip, at their atmospheric Toumba Stadium.
The title-holders’ home kind has been extra spectacular, and so they sit only one level behind metropolis rivals Aris after 10 video games of the Greek Tremendous League season, though there was criticism following a house derby loss in September.
Final weekend’s 3-0 win over Egaleo within the first leg of the last-16 Greek Cup tie featured a primary PAOK aim for Shola Shoretire, the Academy graduate who left United throughout the summer season.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Lucescu prefers a 4-2-3-1 formation, along with his full-backs taking part in excessive and broad. Guinea worldwide Mady Camara is the midfield destroyer who permits the likes of Jonny and Baba Rahman to roam ahead, whereas Andrija Zivkovic and Taison are harmful on the flanks, with the latter providing a extra conventional wing choice to the Serbian’s desire for slicing inside.
Giannis Konstantelias is arguably PAOK’s most respected participant and the inventive younger midfielder got here up clutch with 9 objectives and 6 assists throughout the title-winning marketing campaign. Konstantelias is being coveted by a few of Europe’s elite golf equipment and can look to make an impression once more on English soil, a month after that includes for Greece of their first-ever victory over the Three Lions at Wembley.
