AEK Archives 01 November @ 02:39 PM EST
So, as is typical with AEK, we blow an early 1-0 lead and end up with a draw (today, the match
against PAS, the Cup Final, the match with BATE).
My stream today was poor quality, so I can't comment as much as I could have. But basically what
we saw throughout the match was that we had many chances, yet we only scored one of them.
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AEK Archives 31 October @ 06:16 AM EST
We tend to follow certain former AEK players on this blog, for a variety of reasons.
Sometimes, like with Papastathopoulos, we follow them because they are a club-produced talent
that gets recruited by a bigger team in a bigger country. Sometimes, as with Dellas and
Lyberopoulos, we follow them because they were AEK institutions.
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AEK Archives 27 October @ 10:18 AM EST
In his post-match review yesterday, Alex correctly pointed out that AEK's halftime lead of 0-3 did
not accurately reflect how the game was being played. AEK seemed to be trying to play a
possession-style passing game, but our possession was short-lived, our passing inconsistent, our
runs off the ball half-hearted or non-existent.
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AEK Archives 21 September @ 04:02 PM EST
AEK, after beating Iraklis 1-0 at home AEK are now tied for second place with PAOK and Ergotelis.
AEK got the ball in the net early on in the first minute of the game however the goal was
dissalowed because of an offside call. Ignacio Scocco scored, his first goal in the Superleague, in
the 14th [...
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AEK Archives 05 August @ 09:58 AM EST
Alex is off on vacation and I've been busy at work, on my amatuer team AEK Baltimore (three games
in three days) and nursing a nasty case of Athletic Pubalgia, so we've let the blog slide a few
days. My apologies. The news has really started to pile up. AEK destroyed Turkish-side Ancaragucu
on Sunday in Austria.
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Today's press coverage of AEK's release of Dellas here and here. Press coverage of his move to
Cypriot champions Anorthosis Famagusta here, here and here.
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Traianos Dellas has been released. Reports on the radio in Greece this morning stated that Dellas
terminated his contract with AEK, but now some press reports are coming out stating that he had
some kind of row with club chairman Demis Nikolaidis. More as it develops...
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Greece, under command of Otto Rehagel played a very defensive game last night against Sweden yet it was still not enough to hold off Sweden who defeated Greece 2-0 in Salzburg, the birth place of King Otto.
Sotiris Kyrgiakos was being trained by Rehagel in the days up to the match against Sweden on man marking [.
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GolBlog 10 June @ 04:56 PM EST
Fettone pieno
Come definire il destro di Zlatan Ibrahimovic che porta in vantaggio la Svezia contro i campioni uscenti della Grecia?
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The second most important football tournament in the world kicks off tomorrow. Greece, the
defending European Champions, are, once again, decided underdogs. But we are a resilient,
freedom-loving people who are able to come together and fight as more than the sum of our parts the
way only a people that have been through what [.
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The BBC has a decent "where are they now" article that looks at the Greek stars of the
Euro 2004 team. For AEK fans, the article is a bit depressing. It reminds us that AEK supplied five
star players to 2004 national team squad that conquered Europe. It then slowly peels the scab back
and [...]
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Back at EURO 2004 in Portugal AEK contributed to the Greek National Team with many of its star
players such as Traianos Dellas, Nikos Liberopoulos, Kostas Katsourani, Theodoros Zagorakis,
Vassilis Tsiartas, Demis Nikolaidis, Michalis Kapsis, and Vassilis Lakis. Today only Dellas
and Liberopoulos remain with AEK.
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King Otto named his squad for Euro 2008 today, and AEK's Papastathopoulos did not make the final
cut. The squad contains ten players from the 2004 champions squad, including AEK's center
back Dellas and striker Lyberopoulos. Full details here.
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PAO is currently tied 0-0 with Aris in the 38th minute. A draw for Aris against PAO and a win for
AEK against PAO this wednesday at home for AEK will be enough to ensure that AEK finish first in
the Playoffs and can therefore qualify for Champions League. The squad for AEK's away match against
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I really dont know what goes on with this team. One day they put on a really poor display then,
five days later, they come back and play like the champions they are. AEK played a very good game
of soccer today that could have been 4-0 in favour of AEK. Each and every player [...]
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Kostenoglou will be taking his usual squad with him to the Appostolos Nikolaidis stadium. The
squad will include Macho, Moretto, Dellas, Bourbos, Arruabarrena, Papastathopoulos, Pliatsikas,
Geraldo Alves, Edson Silva Ramos, Kone, Julio Cezar, Liberopoulos, and Blanco. Georgeas and Manduca
are still not 100 percent ready.
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We lined up like this: Lyberopoulos Blanco Rivaldo Edinho Toszer -Kafes Bourbos -Pilatsikas Alves
-Dellas Macho And everyone played well, even Pilatsikas who is arguably a class below the rest of
the team (though steadily improving as he gets more first team experience). At the start of
the second half, Kallon subbed in for Lyberopoulos; in the 59th minute, Ramos Silva went in for
Edinho; and in [.
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The squad the Nikos Kostenoglou will be taking with him is rather similar to the usual.
Lyberopoulos, Rivaldo, Edinho, Kone, Macho, Lagos, Kafes, Morretto, Arruabarena, Blanco, Geraldo
Alves, Pavlis, Toszer, Pappas, Julio Cesar, Bourbos, Kallon, Pliatsikas, Dellas, Ensaliwa, Edson
Silva Ramos. I am pleased to also see Kapetanos included in the squad for the game tonight.
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The coach will be taking:Macho,Moretto,Edson Silva
Ramos,Dellas,Bourbos,Georgeas,Papastathopoulos,Pliatsikas,Kone,Manduca,Kafes,Julio
Cezar,Nsaliwa,Zikos,Edinho,Rivaldo,Tozser,Kallon,Liberopoulos, and Blanco. A crowd of at least
50,000 is now expected according to some AEK newspapers.
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On Sunday against Ergotelis we lined up like this: Lyberopoulos Blanco Rivaldo Edinho Zikos Kafes
Georgeas Bourbos Papastathopouoos Dellas Macho And we scored straight away. Kafes, who had a
brilliant game all around, drew a foul in the box. Rivaldo's resulting penalty kick easily found
net. There was some commotion on the field before the penalty kick with Ergotelis players
protesting that Kafes handled the ball right [.
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Defending European Champions Greece face Portugal on Wednesday in a rematch of the 2004 Euro
final. The Greek squad will look like this, though late reports have Dellas dropped from squad
due to a calf injury. No word yet on who will replace him. The Portuguese side will look like
this. [...
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We are playing well now. Â Blanco, Kallon and Edinho play very well together, with nice, tight
passing, unselfish play and killer instinct finishing. Â Nsaliwa and Zikos from the midfield, and
Bourbos from the right back also seem top plug in well with these attackers, overlapping when
necessary, making runs off the ball and quickly covering [.
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How many days late with this am I? I guess just two. We played Xanthi Wednesday, lined up like
this: Kallon Blanco Rivaldo Lagos Edinho Kafes Bourbos Pliatsikas Papastathopoulos Dellas Macho And
though we didn't completely dominate the entire match, we played a better brand of football
overall.
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Everybody tied this weekend, AEK and Panathinaikos with each other and Olympiacos with a ten-man
Asteras Tripolis.Given all the turmoil that has attended our club lately (the sacking of Ferrer,
Kostenoglou testing out different line-ups and formations), this was a good result for us. We
played decent football.
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AEK Archives 29 February @ 10:24 AM EST
Well, we play PAO Sunday at 12 noon East Coast Time. It some ways AEK and Panathinaikos are
similarly situated; we've both been eliminated from the Greek Cup and the UEFA Cup. Thus, we have
only one thing to focus on the league. In other ways, though, we are in different places.Â
Panathinaikos have [.
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AEK Archives 25 February @ 01:51 PM EST
Yesterday's game was actually two games. There was the first half, where we completely dominated
and played some decent, if not spectacular, football, and there was the second half, where we
perhaps sensing the importance of maintaining our 0-1 lead and going home with all three points
hunkered down on defense, played some [.
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AEK Archives 21 February @ 03:14 PM EST
Well, the game is underway and we lined up like this: Moreto Nsaliwa Dellas Papastathopoulos
Arruabarrena Zikos Kafes Ramos -Rivaldo Lagos Kallon Which is pretty close to what I predicted in
my preview piece yesterday except Kostenoglou has gone with two defensive mids and one striker
where I would have put one defensive mid and two strikers.
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AEK Archives 20 February @ 02:03 PM EST
After a weekend off due to a freak snow storm, AEK travels to Spain tomorrow to play the second
leg of our UEFA Cup fixture against Getafe. Getafe's Cosmin Contra is predicting a win for his
side. AEK, for their part, will be playing just their second match under caretaker manager Nikos
Kostenoglou, a former AEK player and, until [.
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AEK Archives 13 February @ 03:21 PM EST
We drew with Getafe, but our equalizer came four minutes into added time, mere seconds from the
final whistle. This was a close call and does not bode well for the return fixture in Madrid
later this month. We shouldn't be surprised. Something has been wrong with AEK since the
beginning of the year.
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AEK Archives 08 February @ 01:20 PM EST
We play Larissa F.C. tomorrow, Saturday, February 9th, at 9:45 am East Coast Time. I am very
nervous about this match, for the following reasons. First, Larissa are no push-overs. They
won the Greek Cup last year and had a okay run in this year's UEFA Cup, defeating Blackburn of the
EPL in the first round before losing [.
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AEK Archives 05 February @ 10:30 AM EST
The Greek National Team plays today in a friendly against Czech Republic to be played in Cyprus.Â
King Otto's squad includes five new call-ups from the U-21 team, including AEK's own Sokratis
Papastathopoulos: Rehhagel has promoted five rookies from the under-21 squad (Sokratis
Papastathopoulos, Lazaros Christodoulopoulos, Christos Melissis, Avraam Papadopoulos and Grigorios
Makos) but he will [.
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AEK Archives 18 January @ 04:13 PM EST
Last time we played we beat Atromitos 2-0. That was at home and we were at full strength. Now
we play them away and without Blanco, Dellas and probably Papastathopoulos. Ferrer has not been
consistent with his line-ups when missing key players, so I can't predict how he will line up.Â
Instead, I will give [.
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AEK Archives 16 January @ 10:11 AM EST
We face Atromitos this Saturday, probably without Dellas, Papastathopoulos and Blanco. This is
not good. There is a slight chance Papastathopoulos might be back, but it's unlikely. These
three players account for half of our core team. It will be an ugly dogfight without them.Â
Ferrer will have to put a defensive midfielder like Nsaliwa [.
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AEK Archives 13 January @ 04:52 PM EST
It proves nothing; you know that, right? Veria F.C. was crap. We played well, but not well
enough to draw any major conclusions. Still, there were a few surprises that make me truly
hopeful about the second half of the season. The first is that Pappas had his first start of the
Greek League with AEK.
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AEK Archives 11 January @ 04:38 PM EST
That seems to be the question on fans' minds these days. And there is no simple answer.  A
quick look at the transfer market helps illustrate this question. Panathinaikos, for example,
made several multi-million dollar signings in the Summer such as star midfielder Marcelo Mattos and
are now bolstering their squad even further with the likes of [.
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