The PAOK mask falls off and Ferreira has not found a vaccine

It was PAOK that eliminated Benfica, it is PAOK that stayed 1-1 with Omonia. From the game with Benfica to the draw with the Cypriot team, it is a roadmap. He from the Champions League and Dikefalos at the time seems to be trying to answer your questions why he couldn’t exclude Krasnodar.

Against Omonia it was shown once again that PAOK cannot play initiative football, when they have a team that is basically defensive against them. And so far, in the games he has given this year in Greece and Europe, that is the problem. Dikefalos presents a problem when it must be imposed, on the contrary when he enters as an outsider he can manage this role and work on it.

The recent derby with AEK was the parenthesis that opened and closed in the same stadium: at OAKA. Abel Ferreira was slow to react, but when he did, PAOK dominated and showed the possibility that he could. With Omonia, the Portuguese put on a tripod, confirming that this ‘fruit’ with 5 changes can often confuse coaches. Especially the Portuguese, who looks confused in most games, perhaps because he has not realized the potential of his team.

The 1-1 with Omonia as a result is not catastrophic. But it’s the stranger who makes it look like this. It is the continuous gels that deconstruct the effort at the start of the year and the great eliminations in the first European games. And the most important thing is the big question that arises, regarding when, and if, the PAOK ‘machine’ will work.

When the issue of whether or not Ferreira stayed on the bench was raised in a previous article, there were reactions that did not refer to the football part, but to love for the team. the “don’t hurt PAOK” is completely different from “Is Ferreira finally capable of PAOK?” This question was not answered last year, with the asterisk that we all use and it had to do with the equipment he received from Razvan Lucescu, the question remains this year so far with the equipment that he ‘built’ in the little one, I mean coronavirus, time. time from the end of the previous season to the start of the new one. Troubled PAOK from last year’s playoffs seemed to stay there, last year, but after Krasnodar’s exclusion, the whole situation is like the materials that the sea carries away after a catastrophe.

And if you want us to be up to date, the entire PAOK phase looks like the coronavirus. No one knows what steps to take and, more importantly, when is the right time to take them. Ferreira is facing a phase … of sermon. The discussion on individual and collective responsibility can also be done for PAOK, only in this case the masks do not protect. Especially if they fall, they highlight all the problems of a team that can (again) make a championship, but does not know how.

PAOK’s biggest problem is that they lose games and points due to their own mistakes. If the problem was quality, that’s fine, most people would accept it, they would weigh the potential of the equipment towards reality, the gels would be more easily digested. However, since Dikefalos can but does not know how, the problem grows and a great ‘pity’ looms over Toumba. And as the shy people say, have mercy on your throat.