Not what we were hoping for.
So Friday evening comes and PAO draws 1-1 with Xanthi at home. Saturday evening comes and Iraklis beat Olympiakos 2-1. Looks like Sunday may turn out to be a pretty good day I was thinking… and then AEK loses 2-1 to Kerkyra. The game was played in Patra since Kerkyra’s stadium was not yet up...
Europa League Group Stage Draw: Not Bad At All
The draw, which took place in Monaco, is done and AEK find themselves in relatively easy Group G with Zenit St. Petersburg, RSC Anderlecht and HNK Hajduk Split. Aris, by comparison, will need a miracle to advance out of Group B, which contains defending champions Atletico Madrid as well as Bayer 04 Leverkusen. PAOK have...
“I Love It When You Call Me Big Pop-pa!” Papa Bouba Diop Opens His Account in the 23rd Minute!
As I post this, our second-leg playoff match against Dundee United for the Europa League group stage is in the 35th minute, but AEK is already 1-0 up (2-0 on aggregate) thanks to PBD! Match cast here: http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/matches/season=2011/live/day=-1/session=2/match=2003118/matchcenterlight/index.html Decent stream here: http://www.iraqgoals.tv/ch17.html update: half-time still 1-0
Dundee United at Nea Smyrni!…wait a minute…oh god no…
The BBC and other British media outlets are reporting the good news! AEK beat a UEFA deadline and secured a new stadium for this week’s second-leg Europa League clash with Dundee United! We are all set to play them at Nea Smyrni. According to the BBC: AEK Athens have beaten a Uefa deadline to find...
Dundee United 0-1 AEK Athens
AEK traveled to Scotland for the first leg of their Europa League qualification playoff tie and did enough. We were solid enough in defense, controlled the midfield for large parts of the game, and showed some creative flair up top. The only goal was created by Scocco who played the ball to Lago who ran...
Papastathopoulos to AC Milan!
Sokratis Papastathopoulos, without a doubt one of the biggest prospects in Greek football, and former AEK defender, will soon seal the deal on a move to Italian giants AC Milan. He previously played for Genoa and had two very successful seasons with the club (he started often, was loved by the fans, and from what...
First Training Session
AEK held its first training session of the season at Thrakomakedones today though with a smaller than usual squad (others will be showing up slowly). Regardless, four of our new signings were present today including Liberopoulos. He sounded confident that we can do something good this season. As happy as I am to hear that...
Greece 0-2 Korea
I had little hopes for this Greece team before the World Cup actually started and now I have none. Despite terrible choices by Otto the players were sloppy and not until the final minutes showed much interest in scoring. We were outclassed and it was obvious early on. Un-inspirational play but it doesn’t help that...
AEK 2-1 Olympiakos and Im LOVING IT!!!
Now, in my opinion we didn’t play the best football we could have but, WHO CARES!!!! It was the last game of the season, what mattered most was the result. And, to top things off, Aris also won which mean Oly finishes fifth in the league! IM LOVING IT!!!! Alright, as I mentioned in the...
PAOK 1-0 AEK
After all these years we finally lost to PAOK. I left this game for so late because, well, I don’t really feel like talking about it. We played terrible, like a bunch of amateurs. It was obvious PAOK weren’t putting all their effort into the match yet they still out played us. We played with...
THIS IS AEK!
So, we drew to PAOK and Lost to Oly. Things were looking very bad and people were wondering “what’s wrong with the players???”. Well, I don’t know what was wrong with them but yesterday’s 4-2 win against Aris saw a completely different team on the pitch. Sure, a little late to start playing some football...
Dusan Bajevic
Ok, I know it’s still early and there are still four games left in the playoffs so the poll will be up for a month in case you want to vote but prefer to wait until the playoffs are done. However, the discussion will eventually start so it might as well start now. This season...
