{"id":1359883,"date":"2026-02-19T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/paok-vs-celta-the-battle-for-the-europa-league-round-of-16-in-thessaloniki\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:03:31","slug":"paok-vs-celta-the-battle-for-the-europa-league-round-of-16-in-thessaloniki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/paok-vs-celta-the-battle-for-the-europa-league-round-of-16-in-thessaloniki\/","title":{"rendered":"PAOK vs Celta: The battle for the Europa League Round of 16 in Thessaloniki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"552\"><strong>In the Europa League playoffs, Spain&#8217;s <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Celta Vigo<\/span><\/span> will play away against Greece&#8217;s <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">PAOK<\/span><\/span> . The teams next in the standings will determine who will advance to the round of 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"552\"> The rivals have already met at the league stage \u2013 then Celta was stronger (3:1).<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"572\"> PAOK News<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"574\" data-end=\"756\"> The team led by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Razvan Lucescu<\/span><\/span> scored 12 points and finished 17th in the overall table, winning three, drawing three and losing twice.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"758\" data-end=\"1006\"> PAOK are unbeaten in their last five matches in all competitions: three wins and two draws. In the league, they crushed Panserraikos (4-1), beat Panathinaikos twice in the Cup (1-0 and 2-0), and also drew Aris (0-0) and AEK (0-0).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1008\" data-end=\"1131\"> PAOK have collected 8 out of 12 possible points at home in the Europa League this season, which adds to the optimism ahead of the play-offs.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1133\" data-end=\"1152\"> Celta News<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1154\" data-end=\"1360\"> Celta Vigo returned to European competition for the first time since the 2016\/17 season and finished the league stage in 16th place with 13 points (four wins, one draw, three losses). The team is coached by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Claudio Giraldes<\/span><\/span> .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1647\"> However, the Galicians&#8217; current form is a cause for concern: five matches in a row without a win in all competitions (three draws and two defeats). During this period, they lost to Real Sociedad (1-3) and Osasuna (1-2), and drew with Red Star Belgrade (1-1), Getafe (0-0), and Espanyol (2-2).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1649\" data-end=\"1798\"> Despite winning their head-to-head match in the fall, the match in Thessaloniki promises to be challenging for the Spaniards \u2013 PAOK is traditionally strong at home, especially in European competitions.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Europa League playoffs, Spain&#8217;s Celta Vigo will play away against Greece&#8217;s PAOK . The teams next in the standings will determine who will advance to the round of 16. The rivals have already met at the league stage \u2013 then Celta was stronger (3:1). PAOK News The team led by Razvan Lucescu scored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":586048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1359883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}