- Team form: Levadiakos finished 2025-26 well, winning their final three Super League games.
- Head-to-head: PAOK dominated the modern H2H in current competitions, winning 3-0 here on 15/3/26 and 3-2 away on 30/11/25.
- Season summary: PAOK finished 3rd with 64 points in 2025-26, 22 more than Levadiakos who took 42 for a respectable 6th.
Toumba test for tough as nails Levadiakos
Form and momentum
FC PAOK Thessaloniki are the clear favorites at 1.37 for their Super League at home to Levadiakos on Sunday, who are priced up as the shock bet at 7.75. The gap between these two clubs is clearly quite wide, but the visitors are a decent side with a good manager and are entering the game in good shape.
Levadiakos finished 2025-26 very well, winning their last three games against Volos (5-2 home and 3-0 away) and OFI (3-2 home). Ilias Charalambous builds his teams to be compact and tough to play through, but they are also creative, attack-minded and dangerous in transition, which is a pretty good summary of Levadiakos' performance last term.
The 6th placed team took 42 points from 36 games, which is an over-achievement for a club of their size, and indicates an upward momentum that they will look to continue in 2026-2027.
Key players
Levadiakos' most dangerous player is Slovenian international Benjamin Verbič, a sharp creative player who can unlock doors, while Giorgos Nikas and Ožegović are good targets in the box and have more than a little bite in them too.
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PAOK structure
Alessio Lisci has been in charge and his influence is evident as PAOK play a much more structured possession-based game when they have the ball and press with intensity when they don't.
Visitors' threat
- Fabricio Pedrozo is the main finisher in the side and was the team's top scorer in 2025-26 with 12 goals in all competitions.
- The visitors are a good team on the counter and are more than capable of making this game a little messy if they can press PAOK well and get men behind the ball when they don't have possession.
Match context
Mady Camara is the metronome in the centre of the field, allowing PAOK to control games by dictating the pace and creating overloads in the centre of the pitch.
Up front, Taison looks a cunning player who can play the killer pass as well as score some goals, and they have two very different penalty box threats in Alexander Jeremejeff and Giorgos Giakoumakis.
- PAOK are in good form too, coming into this game on a W-W-L-W-W run in all current competitions, and with goals flowing even if the Twente friendly exposed a brief defensive wobble.
Likely script is a PAOK win with both teams to score
PAOK should win this match, although it may not be a walkover as Levadiakos are a tough side to beat. The 3-2-4-1 formation that Lisci has settled on should be able to bully their visitors in midfield while Levadiakos' pressing blocks are organised enough to make this a bit of a chess match.
The value selection here is for both teams to score and a PAOK victory at 1.88, which seems the most natural course of action if this match does open up, while a narrow win with a 2-0 or 2-1 score looks more likely than a landslide in the score markets.
