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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• So Argentina qualified for the World Cup and Tevez looks confused. Seriously, though, why does The Dona look like he's being pushed around? How dare you! We can almost imagine the amused look on everyone's faces at the press conference after hearing this : "Our victory is going to all Argentineans, except the journalists.

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A fim de antecipar eventuais problemas físicos com alguns jogadores, Edinho, jogador do Málaga, foi convocado, apresentando-se hoje no estágio por volta das 20.00 horas. Click to continue reading...

The Inter squad will train this morning before heading off to Japan ahead of Wednesday's Copa Suruga match against Japanese club Oita Trinita.
As the squad travel to Japan, speculation surrounds the future of several players as international transfer window opens.
D'Alessandro's agent, Fernando Oto has joined Fernando Carvalho in publicly denying suggestions that the Argentine could move to Europe. Click to continue reading...

According to Radio Gaúcho, former Inter midfielder Edinho could be set to move to Fiorentina.
Edinho who captained Inter before being sold to Italian club Lecche last year has been linked with the Florence based club following the sale of fellow Brazilian Felipe Melo to Série A rivals Juventus. Click to continue reading...

Nani competed against the likes of Pepe, Miguel Veloso, Hélder Postiga, Pele, Raul Meireles, Eduardo, Edinho, Bruno Alves, Chelsea full-back Bosingwa, Hugo Almeida, Rolando and Yannick Djaló in the 'Bruno Alves Footvolley Challenge' and won!

The event was held on Matosinhos Beach last week with the final between Werder Bremen's Hugo Almeida and Nani versus Sporting Lisbon's Miguel Veloso and Helder Postiga on the other.

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In the past, European clubs saw in Brazilians the road for success. So many players were hired that things may be changing. Below a list of Brazilians sent to second division in the main European leagues. Spotted here.

GERMANY
Energie Cottbus - Gilberto
Karlsruhe - Antonio da Silva

SPAIN
Real Bétis - Edú, Lima e Ricardo Oliveira

FRANCE
Nantes - Douglão
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The match against Larissa ended 0-0 yesterday.

A report can be found here.

As the article states the draw means little for us. Either way, we can still qualify for Champions League as long as we beat Panathinaikos this Sunday. However, we did not play as well as we should have one week before the biggest game of the playoffs.

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Yet another big win against our northern rivals, this time with a scoreline of 3-1.

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It was a fairly confident win against PAOK this time with goals coming from Djebbour, Blanco, and Scocco. There were some questionable calls from the ref (including a red for PAOK, which I agree with but could have been avoided by PAOK) and some calls not made (including a hand ball from Kafes which wasn't called).

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(highlights di Lecce-Napoli 1-1)
LECCE (4-4-2) - Benussi; Polenghi (65' Castillo), Fabiano, Esposito, Giuliatto; Munari, Giacomazzi (86' Caserta), Edinho (50' Konan), Zanchetta; Papadopoulos, Tirobocchi. All.: De Canio. NAPOLI (3-5-2) - Navarro; Aronica, Cannavaro, Contini; Mannini, Pazienza, Bogliacino, Datolo (79' Russotto), Vitale (66' Grava); Denis, Pià (72' Hamsik). Click to continue reading...

Well, alot has been going on with this secret letter which was released earlier this week regarding the financial status of AEK. There is so much to say that it cannot all be discussed in here, and, unfortunately, there are no links in english that I can find relating to the story.

Basically, Melissanidis will have to take over soon or the team might not make it through this.

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(highlights di Lecce-Catania 2-1)
LECCE (4-4-2) - Benussi; Polenghi, Fabiano, Esposito, Giuliatto; Munari, Zanchetta (72' Schiavi), Edinho, Giacomazzi; Tiribocchi (75' Castillo), Papadopoulos (85' Konan). All.: Luigi De Canio. CATANIA (4-1-3-2) - Kosicky; Potenza (76' Falconieri), Silvestre, Stovini, Capuano; Carboni; Izco (46' Sciacca), Biagianti, Llama; Martinez, Morimoto. Click to continue reading...

The squad has been anounced for tomorrow's game.

As I was hoping earlier last week, Kyrgiakos will not play at this game. Neither will Alexopoulos due to being suspended (along with Scocco and Pelletieri). Since Juanfran is injured, and neither Alexopoulos or Kyrgiakos will be playing it is possible that we might see N'Siambamfumu, our recently aquired French centre back, play!

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(highlights di Roma-Lecce 3-2)
ROMA (4-2-3-1): Artur; Motta, Diamoutene, Riise, Tonetto; De Rossi, Pizarro; Perrotta, Baptista (38'st Cassetti), Brighi; Totti (46'st Montella). In panchina: Julio Sergio, Loria, Brosco, Filipe, D'Alessandro. All.: Domenichini (Spalletti squalificato)
LECCE(4-4-1-1): Benussi; Polenghi, Fabiano, Esposito, Giuliatto; Munari, Zanchetta, Edinho (25' st Konan), Ariatti; Caserta (8' Papadopoulos); Tiribocchi (29' st Ardito). Click to continue reading...

The final home game of the regular season ended in disappointment for AEK after they lost 1-0 to Aris, the first time Aris had gotten an away win against AEK since 1989.

Edinho started the match in the end, along side Blanco. Unfortunately, however, neither he nor Blanco could do much to get the ball in the net.

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It looks like Edinho has gotten into yet another argument with AEK manager Dusan Bajevic. He will most likely be fined, and will possibly miss the next match. Bad timing for the Portuguese striker, after Djebbour's injury left the second attacking spot wide open for him.

We will have to wait until Sunday to see who will play along side Blanco, as AEK faces Bajevic's previous team, Aris.

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An uninspired performance by AEK means that second place is now slipping out of reach for this season.

AEK, who had many of its main players (Kyrgiakos, Kafes, Scocco, Juanfran, Nsaliwa) remain in Athens due to either cards or injury, barely managed to get one point in Komotini today after a rather low class performance by the team.

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Edinho scored for Portugal on his debut with the Portuguese National Team against South Africa. Click to continue reading...

AEK grabbed another thre points this weekend to move into one point within second place in the standings. Goals for AEK came from Djebbour, Blanco (who is now top-scorer), and substitue Edinho. Levadeiakos' only goal came from an own goal after a Levadeiakos shot rebounded off Tacthtidis' foot, catching Saja off guard. Click to continue reading...

The three of us here at AEK Archives each have clear squad favorites.  Some are shared and some are individual.  All three of us certainly count Kyrgiakos as a clear favorite.  And why not?  He's a rock, tireless.  He organizes our defense, fights for every ball, bleeds for the club. But many other players are perhaps [. Click to continue reading...

So, I was wrong when I predicted we likely would not go through to the next round of the Cup.  This is one of the many times in my life that I am happy when I am wrong.  A nice bit of play from the lads gave us our late goal.  Nsaliwa to Edinho to [...] Click to continue reading...

The club from Fylis who came back from a 3-0 defecit to tie AEK 3-3 earlier this season almost got away with a another draw, this time at OAKA. However, youngster Panagiotis Tachtsidis came to the rescue in extra time and salvaged the three points for AEK. Tachtsidis, who is only 18 (he scored on the [. Click to continue reading...

We lined up like this: Djebbour Blanco Scocco Ensaliwa Pelletieri Kafes Juanfran Georgeas Kyrgiakos Majstorovic Saja Alves came in for Juanfran, who seems to have picked up an injury, in the 24th minute.  Edinho came in for Ensaliwa and around the 63rd minute and Manduca relieved Georgeas in the 77th. Click to continue reading...

An unbelievable performance by AEK led to a convincing 3-0 win over Panionios, giving AEK its third win a row. This is hard to believe, considering that just before last Saturday, AEK had not gotten one back to back win yet this season. One goal from Blanco, one from Edinho, and one from Scocco was enough [. Click to continue reading...

The battle of the dikefalos ended with a deserved AEK win today.  Djebbour and Edinho linked up very well, combining well in the 43rd minute for our single goal (Edinho cross, Djebbour header) and threatening on a number of other occasions.  Edinho made some fantastically well-timed runs into the box, but luck was not with [. Click to continue reading...

The first Athens derby of the new year ended in a 0-0 draw which gave Olympiakos the chance to move even further ahead in the standings after their 1-0 win against Asteras Tripolis. AEK started strong and managed to keep hold of the ball for long periods of time, especially during the first period. The most [. Click to continue reading...

Well, its been a while since weve seen our team scored more than one goal. In fact its been seven games since weve seen AEK score more than two goals and we havent seen three goals scored in one championship game since last season. Oh well, better late than never (Im sure Blanco is saying the [...] Click to continue reading...

After a month and five days AEK managed to clinch their first win and gain a long awaited for three points. This was the first win for Dusan Bajevic after two away draws before this, one to OFI and one to Levadeiakos. Ismael Blanco scored the only goal of the game which puts him as [...] Click to continue reading...

AEK's poor away form, as many fans feared, has continued with little improvement. AEK drew away with Levadeiakos who currently sit in 11th position with 13 points. Despite hitting the post three times throughout the match neither Djebbour or Blanco could score. AEK were handed a chance to salvage the three points in extra time after [. Click to continue reading...

In our first match under newly-apointed manager Dusan Bajevic (who has served as AEK manager twice before, once for a long trophy-laden run in the 90s and once for just two months in 2004), we struggled for a draw away against OFI Crete today. We lined up like this: Djebbour -Blanco Scocco Pilatsikas Kafes Basinas Juanfran Nsaliwa Kyrgiakos Majstorovic Saja In the 75th minutes Manduca subbed for Nsaliwa [. Click to continue reading...

AEK, who were down 1-0, with only ten players playing, and three minutes left managed to score two goals and defeat Asteras Tripolis 2-1 on Sunday Evening in Athens. AEK's performance saw a large improvement over last week's performance at AEK's 3-3 draw against Thrasivoulos. Throughout both the first and second halves many scoring opportunities were [. Click to continue reading...

AEK's three first half goals did not go unanswered for long.  It took just 31 minutes of the second half for Thrasyvoulos to pull even.  Yes, it is almost unimaginable that a team of AEK's supposed caliber would concede three goals in half an hour to a team holding onto the bottom of the table [... Click to continue reading...

Donis was again happy with his players' performance again Panionios Sunday.  Donis has been very even-tempered during his post-game interviews, careful to praise his players for their hard work.  Indeed, he even refrained from criticizing the officiating, which was dodgy, as is unfortunately typical in the Greek Super Legue. Click to continue reading...

AEK are down 1-0 to Panionios at the end of the first half after Kyrgiakos let in an own goal. Edinho has missed a couple of chances but AEK have not had any serious scoring oppourtunities yet. They have managed to keep the ball for the most part in the Panionios end but will have [...] Click to continue reading...

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 [... Click to continue reading...