Petros Mantalos

The four teams leading the Super League table scored wins of varying difficulty, as leader Panathinaikos continues to enjoy a four-point distance from its chasing pack after the federation's appeals court upheld on Friday the original decision for the Greens getting all three points from the derby with Olympiakos.

Olympiakos is the only team in the Super League to have three wins in as many rounds of games, after downing visiting Lamia on Sunday, while AEK and Panathinaikos bounced back from their Champions League elimination to score road wins.

Panathinaikos and AEK scored precious away wins on Sunday and continue to lead the table at the halfway point of the Super League playoffs.

Panathinaikos emerged victorious from the super-tough challenge of Toumba, beating PAOK 2-1 in a game that had 16 minutes of time added-on at the end of the second half.

Mark Clattenburg, the head of officiating for Hellenic Football Federation (EPO), the governing body of football in Greece, merely confirmed the very obvious after the eighth week of play in Greece's Super League.

An own goal by Dimitris Yiannoulis gave Olympiakos a huge victory at Touma over PAOK with a 1-0 score,taking the Reds five points ahead of the champion one week before the end of the regular season.

AEK's reserve keeper Panagiotis Tsintotas produced arguably the save of the season on Wednesday to safeguard all three points for his team in the game with Asteras Tripolis, just five minutes after coming on as a substitute. AEK remains 10 points behind Super League leaders Olympiakos and PAOK which scored easy wins.

AEK snatched another Europa League point from AC Milan on Thursday, sharing another goalless draw with the Italian giant for the second time in two weeks, this time in Athens.

The Athenian football derby on Sunday ended with Panathinaikos clinching 3 points away from home against AEK Athens in the dying stages of the match by scoring a 3rd goal (3-2).

Greece's national soccer team is visiting Tallinn on Monday for its World Cup 2018 qualifying game against host Estonia, following its victory over Cyprus on Friday. Costas Mitroglou and Petros Mantalos scored first-half goals in Greece's 2-0 win, which saw the Greek side make two wins in as many games in the group, keeping it at the top along with Belgium.

Greece made it two out of two in the World Cup qualifiers beating visiting Cyprus 2-0 in Piraeus despite a rather lackluster performance on Friday. Two first-half goals by Costas Mitroglou and Petros Mantalos sealed it for the hosts.