A few days before his departure for the Netherlands, PAOK, where he will carry out the basic stage of his preparation, dominated Panserraikos 2-0 in a friendly training game held in New Mesimvria.
Dimitris Hatsidis opened the scoring in the first minute with a place after stealing Dimitris Pelka who also made the assist. Shortly before the end of the match, Kiril Despontov with a shot in the move made the final 2-0 with the Bulgarian international taking advantage of Mahamado Baldé’s pressure on the goalkeeper.
Razvan Lutsescu in his first friendly chose two different eleven, one for each half, in order to give time to participate in all his available players.
The PAOK eleven in the first half:
Pavlenca, Kenny, Michaelides, Kenziora, Baba, Ozdoev, Meiet, Pelkas, Tyson, Hatsidis, Myth.
The PAOK eleven in the second half:
Gougensville, Sastoula, Batowula, Lovren, Taylor, Madi, Melet (55 ′ Tsopouroglou), Balde, Despontov, Onyre, Chalov.
Panserraikos (Cristiano Batsi): Tanalini, Georgiadis, Armugom, Volthe, Karasalidis, Zelen, Liasos, Maskanakis, Fale, Sofianos, Leo.
In the second half were: Tsobanidis, Papadimitriou, Dimitriadis, De Marko, Karamanolis, Omeonga, Zelen (65 ′ Liasos), Terzic, Marinos, Deletic, Savvidis (70 ′).
It is worth noting that PAOK will travel to the Netherlands on Monday (14/7/25), where the “black and white” will take their basic preparation stage for the 2025/26 season.