Saturday 5 July was one of the toughest preseason days to date for PAOK players. They started at 08.30 with drills of physical condition and explosiveness, then hit the gym at noon for strengthening exercises with weights, and ended the day on the pitch with their third training session of the day.

Kyriakos Savvidis didn’t participate in the evening session, as he continues his recovery program due to persisting pains on the sciatic nerve. His teammates worked on tactics and defence with attack deployments of 2vs1 and 3vs2. The session concluded with a training match of strikers against defenders, with restricted number of ball touches.