Lamia shocks Olympiakos, PAOK remains on top

Vykintas Slivka celebrates his goal for Lamia against Olympiakos. [Intime]

Lamia inflicted a shocking loss on Olympiakos at the start of the new year in the Super League, while the other three title rivals scored comfortable home wins.

An early goal by Lithuanian striker Vykintas Slivka gave Lamia its first ever win over Olympiakos on Wednesday with a 1-0 score, keeping  the hosts on the seventh spot and leaving the Reds six points off the pace. Olympiakos' Kostas Fortounis missed a penalty as he struck the cross bar. 

PAOK remained at the top of the table with 38 points with an emphatic performance against OFI and a 4-0 result. Kiril Despodov, Abdul Baba Rahman, Marcos Antonio and Brandon Thomas were on target for PAOK, that also had two first-half penalties saved by OFI keeper Noam Baumann. 

In its last five league games PAOK has had five wins, scoring 22 goals and conceding just one.

Panathinaikos is one point behind, as in...

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