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Monday morning, the red-blue suit was leaving for Salonika. As calm as the flight is, the road to Basel is so stony in the Champions League. The luck of the first entry into the premier class dominated the media in the port city on the Aegean for days. The local sports newspaper "Metrosport" warmed the atmosphere by writing about the problems with the dethroned Swiss champions and the bad mood after losing to St. Gallen (1: 2). The Baslers are beaten, the chance for the next round as never before, feed the optimism of local journalists.
The FCB's first hurdle in the Champions League 2018/19
Paok made the headlines last March – At the time, around the world, President Ivan Savvidis took the lead. assaulted the peloton with a pistol at the waist because he was not in agreement with the referee who had canceled the 1-0 defeat of AEK Athens. After the scandal, the game was suspended for three weeks, the game scored 0-3 and deducted the club in the fight title three important points.
The fans of warm blood
Savvidis, since 2012 owner Paok and close to the Greek-Russian entrepreneur government, received three years of ban stadium. At the end of the season, Paok, champion in 1976 and 1985, lost in the fight for the AEK title. Savvidis hot-blooded fans are still revered as a fighter against the corrupt establishment.
The followers are also good for the titles themselves. When he was threatened with withdrawing from a point after riots, chaos stormed a television studio and forced the moderator to make his demands public. An Instagram entry from striker Paok Aleksandar Prijovic, born in St. Gallen and having roots in Serbia, after the Nati victory against Serbia, commented: "Prijo will destroy Basel and the other Xhaka. " Only Taulant Xhaka is hurt and not there. Like Silvan Widmer, who is suffering from a gastrointestinal infection. Left-back Raoul Petretta is likely to move to the right, Blas Riveros on the left.
Without Home Support
"We have heard that it would be a good mood.We are looking forward to the atmosphere," Valentin Stocker was not impressed at the press conference at Toumba stadium, even if the FCB has to do without its 12th man in Greece FCB supporters boycott the match because the Greek authorities demand the personalization of guest fan tickets
Raphael Wicky regrets that, but the thoughts of the coach FCB have long since arrived at the match on Tuesday night (ticker starting at 19.30) Valais is waiting for an experienced opponent, who throws everything in the balance for the duels against FCB The coach Razvan Lucescu He was prepared for the CL qualification on June 20th and put his team in shape at a two week training camp in the Netherlands.What is missing to the winner of the cup, it is is the practice of the match The championship in Greece will stop on August 25. "Paok is a good opponent who has played a good season," says Wicky, "but we want to continue and believe in our chances."
For this, Red Blue must perform better than Saturday against St. Gall and prevent striker Prijovic to make a new music from St. Gallen. Otherwise, the situation of the FCB and its coach at home is uncomfortable.
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