Vassilis Torosidis

A rather experimental Greece team lost 2-1 to Turkey on Thursday at a friendly game in Antalya, showing manager Angelos Anastasiadis has plenty of work to do to gear the national team up for the Euro 2020 qualifiers against Italy and Armenia at home.

Olympiakos took another leap toward qualifying from its Europa League group through an emphatic win over Dudelange at home on Thursday, as PAOK suffered another reverse at the hands of Vidi, this time in Budapest.

The Reds defeated their visitors from Luxembourg with a 5-1 score, having led 4-0 from the first half.

Olympiakos scored its first victory at the group stage of the Europa League, beating Dudelange 2-0 in Luxembourg on Thursday, while PAOK lost precious ground going down 2-0 at home to Hungarian champion Vidi.

SOCCER: Reports say PAOK has agreed terms with Arsenal to buy the London club's 23-year-old striker Chuba Akpom for just over 1 million euros. The England Under-21 international may be in Thessaloniki as early as on Monday.

Greece manager Michael Skibbe is changing more than half of his starting line-up for the return leg of the World Cup play-off, according to the official line-ups.

The national team did its duty on Tuesday and defeated visiting Gibraltar 4-0 in Piraeus to finish second in its World Cup qualifying group and advance to the play-offs in November for a ticket to the finals in Russia next summer.

SOCCER: Olympiakos announced on Wednesday the signing of Serb striker Uros Djordjevic - who scored against the Reds in the Champions League qualifiers a few weeks ago - and Panathinaikos confirmed the acquisition of Malian holding midfielder Yacouba Sylla, formerly of Rennes and Aston Villa.

Greece extended its perfect start to the World Cup qualifiers with a 2-0 win in Tallinn over host Estonia on Monday night. Both of its goals came from defenders.

By George Georgakopoulos

Greece ended up goalless with Hungary in Budapest on Sunday, on manager Sergio Markarian?s debut on the national team?s bench, a result that has left Greece at the bottom of its Euro 2016 qualifying group with two points.

By George Georgakopoulos

Greece manager Claudio Ranieri accepted the blame for the shock loss at home to the Faroe Islands (1-0) but rushed to stress he is not quitting the national team’s bench despite having a record of three defeats in as many games at home.