PAOK’s most important win – at least for now – in the championship was achieved by PAOK, who won 2-1 against Olympiakos in Karaiskakis in a derby that drew the curtain on the 8th round. Thus, the “two-headed” overtook the “red-whites” in the standings, now lagging behind the leader “Panathinaikos” by ten points. PAOK’s victory was fair in terms of the overall picture of the match, as Lucescu read the terms of the match much better and managed to surprise Mitchell, while, on the other hand, Olympiacos was in the match as long as James had the strength.

The score in Faliro opened only in the 8th minute, when Papastathopoulos sent the ball into the goal of his team after a corner Tsushisa. Olympiacos took over the reins of the match fifteen minutes later and equalized in the 37th minute with a superb header from Hames yesterday after a cross by Reabchuk. The second half started exactly the same as the first, Olympiacos pressed, but PAOK took the lead again only in the 56th minute thanks to a very good shot from Narey, who sent the ball from the right side to the opposite “C” home of Tsolakis.

In ’61, Treimanis awarded a penalty to PAOK after Oliveira was brought down by Ba and Tsolakis, but he withdrew his decision – via VAR – to which PAOK reacted strongly, highlighting, among other things, with his blunt statement: “Don’t think about was to play again with the sweat of the PAOK players. We usually don’t issue a second warning.” It should be noted that Razvan Lucescu left the press conference.

A sharp statement by PAOK about the cancellation of the penalty by the referee.

OLYMPIC (Mitchell): Tsolakis, Vrusai, Ba (Uy Joe, 84), Papastathopoulos, Reampchuk, Embila, Inbom, Ajibu (Masouras, 66), Gary Rodriguez (El Araby, 71), James (Valbuena, 71), Bakabu.

PAOK (Razvan Lucescu): Kotarski, Liratsis, Ingason, Coulierakis, Tsausis (Sastre, 70), Dadas (Schwab, 90), Kurtic, Narey, Douglas (Filipe Soares, 84), El Kanduri, Oliveira.