PAOK: With Yoni Otto as instead Baba against AEK in the Cup rematch

Rahman Baba will be absent from his Greek Cup rematch against (9/01/25, 19:30), with Yodi Otto enlisted in a left-back role for the game of “white-blacks” against the Union. PAOK lost 2-1 to Panathinaikos in OAKA for the 17th Super League game, with the Thessalonians finishing the game with 10 football players, as Rahman Baba was expelled from the game with a red card. Which means that Ganezos full-back will lose his team’s next match and he is no other than the rematch in the Greek Cup against AEK! CORVERSE This development puts Razvan Lucescu on a dilemma about the player who will place at the left end of the defense, with Yoni To make the dominant look for the position. Portuguese leftback gathers the most likely to fill Baba’s void, with Shastra holding his jersey at the right end. In PAOK’s roster there are other football players who can play left back, such as Vieirinia, but the captain of PAOK is hardly preferred to play the lead in such a game. It is recalled that the first game of the two teams in the “OPAP Arena” had ended with a score of 1-0 in favour of the AEK, with PAOK being invited to the rematch to overturn the score, in order to qualify for the semi-finals of the event. A game that most likely Razvan Lucescu will not be on the black and white bench, as he has been punished with 4 months’ ban on playing grounds, as he participated with various PAOK members in episodes with AEK friends, in the parking lot of “OPAP Arena” after the end of the match. For this case the Thessalonians have filed an appeal and the decision will be made on Wednesday (8/01/25).