PAOK fans take scaring tactics to a new level in game against Olympiakos

The inside of the stadium was a ring of fire lit by PAOK fans.

PAOK fans created an intimidating atmosphere inside the Toumba stadium.

When we think of the words loud fans and scare tactics, the first names that comes to our mind are clubs like Galatasaray and Napoli. Well for the guys in Istanbul and Naples there is news. Look towards the Mediterranean and you have got some serious competition. PAOK fans took scary tactics to a whole new level last night in their second leg of the semifinals of the Greek Cup.

Trailing their bitter rivals by a goal after losing 2-1 in the first leg, the fans did their best to give their team a “home-field advantage”. The PAOK fans wanted to instil pure terror into the hearts of the Olympiakos players as they lit flares and surrounded the entire stadium in a ring of fire before the match got under way.

The game at the Toumba stadium in Thessaloniki was held up for over an hour as the home fans threw flares onto the field and on to the bench of the Greek champions. If this wasn’t enough the PAOK fans went a step further, putting dead fish on the Olympiakos bench.

Tempers on the field didn’t help to quieten down the atmosphere either as both team ended with 10 men as PAOK’s Bibras Natkho and Olympiakos’s Yiannis Maniatis both seeing red. With players getting into a scuffle every now and then, the referee was forced into playing 15 minutes of injury time. The PAOK fans weren’t done after winning the 1-0 courtesy of a goal by Stefanos Athanasiadis two minutes into the second half. The final whistle was followed by the home fans storming in to attack the Olympiakos players on the way to the locker room, Olympiakos claiming a couple of their players (Maniatis and Nelson Valdez) getting hit.

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PAOK fans put lots of dead fish on the Olympiakos bench today pic.twitter.com/hEY8x2kERZ

— FootballAwaydays (@Awaydays23) April 16, 2014