PAOK Face Balkan Away Without Osman in First European Match

PAOK will face Balkan Botevgrad in Bulgaria. The match will be broadcast at 19:00 on Novasports Prime.

This match will be PAOK's first European game without Turkish national team star Cedi Osman in the squad. Osman was injured in the Roma match played in Thessaloniki. The team will go three months without Osman and must fill this major gap from within the squad.

PAOK sit third in their group with a 4-2 record, level with Manresa. The group leader is Bahçeşehir with a 5-1 record.

Balkan Botevgrad have only one win this season. That victory came in their previous match, against Bosnia in Sarajevo.

Their key player is Javonte Maconi. In the coach Karaitzic's team, Maconi is second in the scoring standings with an average of 20.0 points, behind Osman (22.2) in this table. Karaitzic is a former Aris head coach.