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A cup success for Porto on Thursday completed the midweek programme, with Bayern and Chelsea edging closer to a trophy while Manchester United lost despite Zlatan Ibrahimović scoring. PAOK will face Turkish side Beşiktaş in the second qualifying round of the Champions League on either August 25 or 26 at Toumba stadium in Thessaloniki.Immediately after the draw, a number of provocative messages from Turkish social media users flooded the Twitter and Instagram of PAOK.Specifically, they posted photos of Mustafa Kemal, the founding father of Turkey and main perpetrator of the Greek Genocide, as well as Turkish frigates.The provocative behavior of the Turkish social media users did not go unanswered, as George Savvidis, sent his own message to the Turkish trolls spamming PAOK’s social media accounts with images and gif’s of Turkey’s genocidal founding father.The son of Ivan Savvidis, who today celebrates eight years of owning PAOK, went to Instagram to post an image of Winston Churchill, Britain’s Prime Minister during World War II, and his famous quote:“Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.”On this day in 2012, Ivan Savvidis took over PAOK with the aim of leading the famous Thessaloniki team to success.Savvidis paid ten million euros in the increase of the share capital of PAOK, acquiring 51% of shares.“With the good cooperation and the common vision and of course with the support of the people, we hope that PAOK will soon conquer what it deserves,” A PAOK announcement said on the same day.A few days later, Savvidis explained his decision to get involved in PAOK’s administration.“I saw a team on the verge of survival. Luis Suárez scored his 13th goal in his last 11 appearances for the club as Barcelona took a slender advantage in the first leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final against Valencia. Manchester United came from 2-0 down to win and Ryan Babel inspired Beşiktaş to victory after a weekend when Barcelona, Bayern and Paris stretched their leads. Bayern München will be aiming to make the most of home advantage in the first leg of their tie against knockout stage debutants Beşiktaş. Manchester City clinched the English League Cup after United edged Chelsea in the Premier League, while Paris lost Neymar to injury during their Classique win against Marseille. Check out all this season's UEFA Champions League results. UEFA.com rounds up all the ins and outs from the 16 contenders. The UEFA Champions League round of 16 contenders' squad changes for the remainder of the competition have now been approved – UEFA.com details all the ins and outs. Manchester City ended 2017 with a rare off-day in front of goal but remain the top-scoring side in Europe's top ten domestic leagues. In 2008–09 season, Beşiktaş won the league with coach Mustafa Denizli. Dort treffen die Türken auf den FC Bayern, der zunächst vor eigenem Publikum die Muskeln spielen lassen will. Paulo Dybala scored twice for Juventus on Sunday after Robert Lewandowski reached 100 Bundesliga goals with a hat-trick and both Marcus Rashford and Cristiano Ronaldo shone. Lionel Messi has drawn level with Gerd Müller's record for goals in one of Europe's top-five leagues, while Harry Kane opened his account for 2018 and Paris scored six in France. Immediately after the draw, a number of provocative messages from Turkish social media … We look at each team's chances of going through from their current position. A 5-0 reverse in Germany means, barring the biggest comeback in UEFA club competition history, Beşiktaş have only pride to play for as Bayern come to Istanbul. Can you name them? Luis Suárez and Paulinho both grabbed doubles for Barcelona after Manchester City crushed fellow round of 16 contenders Tottenham and Neymar struck twice for Paris. Test your knowledge!