PAOK continued their preparation for upcoming engagements with a session hled at Toumba on Holy Thursday. The players of Giorgos Georgiadis worked on their operational strength in the first part of training, under the guidance of physical condition trainer Dimitris Daniilidis. Afterwards, they did drills of tactical awareness and ball circulation.

Dimitris Papadopoulos complained of heavy thigh muscles and sat out for part of training as a precaution. Stefanos Athanasiadis suffers from sciatic pains and remained in the gym for physiotherapy. Facundo Pereyra (abdomen muscle pains) followed a physical condition program, while Panagiotis Deligiannidis went on with his recuperation training.

Sotiris Papagiannopoulos and Răzvan Raț trained in the morning and then departed on a leave of absence. Holy Friday’s training session will start at 11.00 at Toumba Stadium. Charles Itandje, Christian Noboa, Miguel Vítor and Ricardo Costa will be absent, also on a leave of absence.