High winds compounded the difficulties of PAOK players in Thursday’s training session at Nea Mesimvria. The menu consisted of physical condition drills with sprints and tactics with a half-pitch match and specific instructions regarding defending and attacking deployment.

Eyal Golasa has returned to normal training, having fully recovered from his toe injury. Internationals Stefanos Athanasiadis and Răzvan Raț, as well as Dimitris Konstantinidis, who has recovered from a viral infection, trained at a lighter pace. Alexandros Tziolis went through a special session, Hedwiges Maduro remained in the gym for physiotherapy, Panagiotis Deligiannidis started his recuperation program and Ergys Kace trained once again apart from his teammates.

Greek-Swede defender Sotiris Papagiannopoulos also participated in PAOK’s training. Next session has been scheduled for Friday, at 11.30 at Nea Mesimvria training centre, as PAOK prepare for their match against Asteras at Tripolis, pending of course the decision of the authorities on if or when the matches will take place…