Angelos Anastasiadis never gets tired repeating to his troops than in modern football there is no time to react on the pitch. The team lines are getting all the more tighter, with most players gathering in reduced spaces and called to adjust, think and act in split seconds.

That’s why in most PAOK trainings there are drills of reduced space deployment with no more than two touches of the ball per player. On Thursday, the “Double-Headed Eagle” coach told his players to work on the continuous passing of the ball and position switching in reduced space, as three teams of 8 players each alternated on the pitch. The session ended with a training match, free of instructions, decided by Facundo Pereyra strike.

Giorgos Tzavellas trained with the rest of his teammates again, Hedwiges Maduro followed personalized training due to fatigue, Charles Itandje did recuperation work because of a sore back, while Stefanos Athanasiadis, Răzvan Raț and Miguel Vítor, who didn’t feature against RKC Waalwijk, trained normally. As for Dimitris Salpingidis, Panagiotis Glykos and , they went on with their specific training program.