The top of Super League 1 is now colored yellow and black instead of green for the first time after 20 games. AEK’s 3-0 victory over Ahri took them to the bottom of the standings on Sunday and kept them there as Panathinaikos lost 1-0 in Tripoli to drop to second place, two points behind, in a deep competitive crisis. PAOK remains strong in the title challenge with Olympiacos, which progressed with tight wins at home ahead of the match between them on Sunday at Toumba, where the Red-Whites will come out reinforced by Sergi Canos. The 25-year-old Spanish winger was loaned from Breford with an option to buy in the summer and has been in Greece since last night with announcements expected today.

In the match of the day, Panathinaikos violently burst into Tripoli and strangled Asteras until Kourbelis was sent off in the 33rd minute with a second yellow card in 6 minutes! The Greens were cut in half and retreated significantly after that, without fear until the 80th minute, when Bartolo opened the scoring with a dry kick from the height of the square, in Asta’s first chance. A double big intervention by Papadopoulos in the 85th minute, with close attempts by Ioannidis and Tsokai, saved the victory for Arcades, who has been turning out to be the “evil demon” of Panathinaikos for many years!

ASTERAS TRIPOLIS: Papadopoulos, Carmona, Pixou, Castaño, Alvarez, Iglesias, Santafe (Bartolo, 71), Gardavski (Bertolio, 55), Crespi (Alagbe, 90+1), Sito (Garcia, 90+2), Barales.

PANATINAIKOS: Brignoli, Vagiannidis, Senckefeld, Sarlia, Poits (Hankar, 81), Courbelis, Ruben, Serine (Tsokai, 74), Palacios (Kleinheisler, 81), Sporar (Ioannidis, 67), Bernard (Mancini, 68).

Previously, with a lot of stress, as evidenced by the 3-2 final, PAOK defeated Levadeikos in their 1000th championship match at Toumba. An early Dundas goal in the 10th minute found an immediate response from a Moutinho penalty in the 15th minute. Although VAR asked referee Diamantopoulos to reconsider the phase, he did not change his mind, with Levadeiakos strongly protesting and asking for Kotarski’s expulsion after Lua Lua was overthrown. The non-change of the decision caused a sharp statement by PAOK PAOK and outrage from Razvan Lucescu. Lua Lua headed the post before Dundas made it 2-1 at 45+5 and Coulierakis (first goal) 3-1 in the 61st minute before Tsapras closed the scoring in the 66th minute.

AEK is the only first with a difference of 2 points – Clever PAOK and Olympiacos came close to three points.

PAOK: Kotarski, Sastre, Kargas, Culierakis, Rafa Soares, Schwab, Dundas, Narei (Zivkovic, 72), Constantelias, Tyson, Oliveira.

LEVADEIAKOS: Stojanovic, Tsapras, Vinicius, Tsimopoulos, Vichos (Simelidis, 78), Panayiotu, Mechia (Sako, 79), Nikas, Dabo (Geremegev, 66), Moutinho, Lua Lua (Toro, 56).

In the tails derby, Ionikos beat Lamia 2-0 on Michalis Grigoriou’s debut on his bench and was within arm’s reach of 12th place, ensuring a stay in the category. Contrary to the course of the match, the guests opened the scoring in their own net with Bejarano’s header in the 18th minute, in the 45th minute they made the score 2-0 with a cross shot by Valerianos, and then they confidently controlled the pace, not being afraid of the persistent, but very tense Lamia.

GHUL: Saranov, Vasilantonopoulos (Simon, 73), Pavlavets, Tsanetopoulos, Abada, Bejarano (Stanko, 55), Slivka, Romanich, Nunez (De Vincenti, 55), Martinez (Tsiloulis, 73), Vergos (Manusos, 45+1).

IONIC: Utesiotis, Tsigrinski, Valerianos, Romao, Migas, Sakic (Tsimsakh, 90+2), Fatiga (Rubulaku, 87), Canias, Guleri (Cabral, 46), Seba (Andunes, 77), Mantzis.