PAOK vs Plzen Prediction & Betting Tips (24 October)

Reigning Greek champion, PAOK got off to a bad start to its Europa League campaign. Defeated successively by Galatasaray 3-1 in Turkey and the Romanian club FCSB 0-1 at home, it is still looking for its first points and cannot avoid, for the moment, a 32nd place. This team will have to show much more in the rest of the campaign to slip into at least the top 24 of the rankings to play a play-off to the round of 16. In the championship, PAOK wanted to maintain its first place by leaving Athens, where it faced its runner-up, AEK, on ​​Sunday.

 No victory either for Viktoria Plzen in the league phase of the Europa League but the Czech team has the merit of having taken 2 points on the first days. She erased a 2-goal deficit in Frankfurt 3-3 in added time and was unable to get the better of Ludogorets 0-0. 3rd in the standings of its championship, Plzen went to Ostrava after the break with the ambition of getting closer to the first two, Slavia Prague and Sparta from the same city. 

PAOK Salonika still deplores a few absences at the moment. Indeed, the replacement goalkeeper Tsiftsis, the relatively important defenders Sastre and Michailidis and the unused attacker Thomas are not able to hold their place in the group. In addition, Croatian defender Lovren was not included on the list of players authorized to play in this competition. Same observation for right back Vierinha, attacking midfielder Murg and left back Jonathan Gomez. On the other hand, we should find the former Monegasque and Lorient player Bakayoko. In the championship, the top scorer of this team is the Austrian Schwab with 4 goals.

On the Plzen side, the same elements are still missing. These are midfielders Souaré and Sykora and attackers Kabongo and Durosinmi who have all been injured for a few weeks already. The last city is not qualified, any more than the central defender Sène and the winger Sykora. On the other hand, the very important environment Sulc will be very present. He has found the fault 5 times in the league this season and he also scored against Frankfurt on the first day.