«PAOK are seeded need to defend their status as favourites in this tie. That was apparent before the draw and I repeat it now as well. However we are up against a team that earned respect in Europe by eliminating Galatasaray and that is no fluke in two-legged affairs.

We will study Östersunds FK thoroughly and we must take into account that they will be in full competition mode, as their league is already on matchday 17. We have started gathering our info about them. We will be better and more concentrated, as it’s one of our main goals this season to make it to the UEFA Europa League group stage.”