PAOK thrashes Panathinaikos as AEK gets to one point from the top

PAOK outplayed Panathinaikos in Sunday's crunch game to force the Greens' first home loss and throw the Super League wide open, as AEK has closed the gap from the top to a single point.

Four days after beating the Greens in Thessaloniki 2-0 for the Cup, PAOK went one better in Athens on Sunday night as it eclipsed the league leader with a 3-0 result.

The visitors scored three times within eight minutes, through a Ruben Perez own goal and strikes by Andrija Zivkovic and man-of-the-match Giannis Konstantelias.

PAOK has therefore reduced its gap from Panathinaikos to six points, moved up to third and is about to visit the "Apostolos Nikolaidis" stadium again four days on for the second leg of the Greek Cup quarterfinals.

However the redeeming feature for Panathinaikos has been the attitude of its fans, who cheered on their players after the end of the game...