His participation in the sixth final of the Greek Cup in the last seven years was largely ensured PAOK after an impressive 5-1 victory over Lamia at the Athanassios Diakos.

His team Razvan Lucescu with goals from Calenda Narea in just the 13th second, Giannis Constantelia in the 25th minute, Douglas Augusto in the 62nd minute, Brandon Thomas in the 67th minute and Joan Sastre in the 69th minute turned the rematch for going out to the semi-final tournament to the standard procedure in Tumba. In the 86th minute, an honorary goal from Ruben Martinez for the club from Fthiotida.

The inhabitants of Thessaloniki could not have imagined a more dreamy beginning. Narey got the ball after Constantelija and Andrija Zivkovic teamed up from the left, with the Serb setting up a ready goal for former Fortuna Düsseldorf ace who simply put the ball into the net.

Shortly before the end of the first quarter, passions broke out. Lucescu and his colleagues strongly objected to Daniel Adezzo’s small area punch on Thomas’s effort, but the referee and VARista (Andreas Gamaris) were of a different opinion.

Instead of a penalty, Christos Vergetis yellowed Lucescu’s assistant Cristiano Batsi, as well as PAOK general captain Christos Karipidis.

Lamia tried to take advantage of … a mistake, but in Martinez’s shot, after a beautiful counterattack by Inga, Ingason landed as many shots as he needed, and the ball hit the net, but from the outside of Dominik Kotarski’s goal.

In the 25th minute, PAOK scored the second goal. Živković found Sastre, the Spaniard lined up for Constantelia, who beat Thanasis Garavelis 0-2 with a straight shot. The author of the second goal and Augusto were threatened until the end of the first half, but the score did not change.

In the 57th minute, it was Garavelis who stopped Inga Ingason’s header with his feet after Narey’s foul, but five minutes later Augusto “hooked” the hosts’ goalkeeper with a beautiful left cross – 0:3.

In the 67th minute, it was Thomas’s turn to shoot under the body of Garavelis, receiving a vertical pass from Tyson at a score of 0:4, and two minutes later Sastre received a pass from Zivkovic from a high canopy and sent the ball under the feet of the outgoing Garavelis for 0-5.

Four minutes before the final, after an unsuccessful clearance by Konstantinos Coulierakis, Martinez spectacularly scored a goal of honor for the team of Leonidas Vokolou.

Procedural nature in the last minutes, although there was tension again before the very end, as a result of which Lucescu also saw a yellow card, as well as a rematch between the two teams in Thessaloniki.

PAOK, on ​​the other hand, is focused on the away match in Volos and trying to claim the championship, while Lamia is on the way to Agrinio and the “battle” to avoid relegation.

Source: RES-IPE