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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Cármenes - Granada Thursday 29 October 2020 Granada CF 21.00CET (21.00 local time) PAOK FC Group E - Matchday 2 Last updated 09/04/2021 11:34CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 Granada CF - PAOK FC Thursday 29 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Granada CF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Granada CF have not played against a club from their opponents' country PAOK FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/2010 GS PAOK FC - Villarreal CF 1-0 Salonika Vieirinha 70 21/10/2010 GS Villarreal CF - PAOK FC 1-0 Villarreal Marco Ruben 38 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Frantzeskos 17, Olivares 54, PAOK FC - Club Atlético de 4-4 Zagorakis 75 (P), 04/11/1997 R2 Salonika Madrid agg: 6-9 Zoumboulis 84; Lardín 2, Bogdanović 28, Santi 51, Kiko 89 Vieri 10, 32, 53, Club Atlético de Madrid - PAOK Lardín 12, Kiko 74; 21/10/1997 R2 5-2 Madrid FC Frantzeskos 20, Marangos 65 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 03/10/1990 R1 PAOK FC - Sevilla FC agg: 0-0 (aet, 3- Salonika 4 pens) 19/09/1990 R1 Sevilla FC - PAOK FC 0-0 Seville UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Santi Llorente 19, 4-0 03/11/1982 R2 Sevilla FC - PAOK FC Seville Lopez 39, Pintinho agg: 4-2 56, 89 Dimopoulos 49, 20/10/1982 R2 PAOK FC - Sevilla FC 2-0 Salonika Kostikos 61 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Neeskens 23 (P), 59 6-1 (P), Rexach 44, 64, 01/10/1975 R1 FC Barcelona - PAOK FC Barcelona agg: 6-2 81, Cruyff 54; Anastasiadis 77 16/09/1975 R1 PAOK FC - FC Barcelona 1-0 Salonika Koudas 72 2 Granada CF - PAOK FC Thursday 29 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Granada CF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PAOK FC 5 3 2 0 5 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 10 3 3 4 11 20 3 Granada CF - PAOK FC Thursday 29 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada Match background Debutants Granada will be looking to maintain their 100% European record as they welcome seasoned UEFA Europa League campaigners PAOK to the Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes. • The Andalusian club could hardly have wished for a better start to their first European group campaign as they came from behind to beat PSV Eindhoven 2-1 in the Netherlands, veteran striker Jorge Molina drawing them level before Darwin Machís's winner. PAOK, meanwhile, were held 1-1 in Salonika by Omonoia, Austrian midfielder Thomas Murg getting their equalising goal. Previous meetings • While Granada have never faced a Greek club, PAOK have played against Spanish clubs in ten previous UEFA matches, remaining unbeaten in Salonika (W3 D2) but without a victory in Spain (D1 L4). Their most recent experience, against Villarreal in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League group stage, was not untypical as they lost 1-0 away before winning by the same score at home. Form guide Granada • Granada earned a historic first qualification for European competition by finishing seventh in the 2019/20 Spanish Liga, having been promoted just the season before. • Diego Martínez's side began the club's maiden continental campaign in the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, opening their account with a 4-0 win at Albanian side Teuta before sealing further progress with a 2-0 home win against Locomotive Tbilisi of Georgia and a 3-1 play-off success against Malmö in southern Sweden. • With the victory in Eindhoven, Granada have therefore won all four of their European matches, one at home and three away. PAOK • PAOK finished distant runners-up to Olympiacos in the 2019/20 Greek Superleague in defence of their title, but Abel Ferreira's side harboured high hopes of reaching the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time this season when they knocked out Beşiktaş (3-1 h) and Benfica (2-1 h) in their first two qualifying ties, only to lose 2-1 in both legs of their play-off against Krasnodar. • That means PAOK have extended their record of having participated in every season of the UEFA Europa League to a 12th successive year. Last season they lost on away goals to Slovan Bratislava in the play-offs (0-1 a, 3-2 h), but they are back in the group stage this term for the eighth time. Four of their previous seven participations have extended into the knockout phase but never beyond the round of 32. Their most recent group campaign, in 2018/19, was their poorest yet as they lost five of their six games and finished bottom of a group headed by eventual winners Chelsea. • In 21 away UEFA Europa League group matches PAOK boast a W9 D6 L6 record, though there have been defeats in the last two. Links and trivia • PAOK's Icelandic international defender Sverrir Ingason spent the second half of 2016/17 with Granada, making 17 appearances and scoring one goal. • José Ángel Crespo, the PAOK defender, is an Andalusian native born 170km from Granada. He started his career at Sevilla and has had loan spells at Racing Santander, Córdoba and Rayo Vallecano. • Crespo played alongside Granada club captain Víctor Díaz in Sevilla's youth teams. • Molina's goal for Granada against PSV made him, at 38 years 183 days, the third oldest scorer in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final. • Granada defender Jesús Vallejo skippered Spain to victory in the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in the Greek city of Katerini, 70km from Salonika. • The Spanish club are one of six UEFA Europa League group stage debutants this season alongside CSKA-Sofia (Group A), Leicester City (G), Sivasspor (I), Royal Antwerp (J) and Omonoia, who are also in Group E. • PAOK's eighth appearance in the UEFA Europa League proper is a Greek record, one more than Olympiacos. 4 Granada CF - PAOK FC Thursday 29 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada Team facts Granada CF Formed: 1931 Nickname: Nazaríes (Nasrids), El Graná UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) None Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2019/20: did not take part in UEFA competition 2018/19: did not take part in UEFA competition 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 2-0: Granada v Locomotive Tbilisi 24/09/20, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round • Biggest away win 0-4: Teuta v Granada 17/09/20, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat N/A UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 2-0: Granada v Locomotive Tbilisi (see above) • Biggest away win 0-4: Teuta v Granada (see above) • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat N/A PAOK FC Formed: 1926 Nickname: Dikefalos tou Vora (Two-Headed Eagle of the North) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2019) Greek Cup: 7 (2019) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2019/20: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2018/19: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2017/18: play-offs 5 Granada CF - PAOK FC Thursday 29 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada 2016/17: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2015/16: group stage 2014/15: group stage 2013/14: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2012/13: play-offs 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: PAOK v Lokomotiva Zagreb 23/07/15, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-7: Lokomotivi Tbilisi v PAOK 16/09/99, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-4: PAOK v Benfica 29/08/18, UEFA Champions League play-off second leg 0-3 four times, most recently v Schalke 16/02/17, UEFA Europa League round of 32 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Barcelona v PAOK 01/10/75, UEFA Cup first round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0: PAOK v Lokomotiva Zagreb (see above) • Biggest away win 0-7: Lokomotivi Tbilisi v PAOK (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3 three times, most recently v Schalke (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Barcelona v PAOK (see above) 6 Granada CF - PAOK FC Thursday 29 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada Squad list Granada CF Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.