Well, all I can say is we were lucky. PAO had a few incredible chances to score a few goals but were either stopped by the post or Arabatzis. But, they never should have won in the first round against us so it's all good

We started without Makos which was great news. Our starting XI was Arabatzis, Araujo, Majstorovic, Geraldo, Karabelas, Manduca, Kafes, Jahic, Blanco, Scocco, and Djebbour.

By Ollie Irish

Bad taste bear: Charlie Itandje

"Liverpool FC has released Charles Itandje from his contract and the goalkeeper has signed a two and half year contract with Greek Super League club Atromitos.

"He will officially join the Athens-based club on January 1, 2011.

So, after our incredible win only five days earlier people were expecting similar things from last nights game. We thought we were going to get it also after building a healthy 3-1 lead with plenty of time left. The final score? 3-3

One thing was to blame for this result more than anything else.

Things are not looking very good for us at halftime. Still 0-0, but Atromitos was stronger the first half. We let them come too much. Not that there have been many chances, but they had too much possession, so that we never got to play our own game. Blanco very lonely up front, but looking sharp. Jimenez responded by bringing Burns for Guerreiro in the 30th minute, trying to bring more strenght in our offense.

The draw for the quarter finals of the Greek cup has been made and AEK has been paired with our cross town rivals,Pao.Both games will be played at the OAKA,the first on the 19th of January.This will be classified as a home game for Pao.The return leg is on the 2nd of February and is our home tie.
The remaining fixtures are as follows:-Atromitos Athens v Diagoras or Ethnikos Asteras ,Kerkyra or Iraklis v Olympiakos Volou and finally Olympiakos v Paok.