PAOK beat Olympiacos 2-1 in Piraeus in a derby on the 8th.her Superleague. This was the first away victory for the Thessaloniki team in this year’s championship.
Lucescu’s team scored 15 points. Piraeus remained at 14, ten short of pioneer Panathinaikos.
PAOK threatened only in the first minute, but El Kadouri’s shot was parried and ended in a corner. The guests opened the scoring in the 8th minute, scoring Papastathopoulos into his own net after Tsushisa’s corner kick.
In the 15th minute, Gary Rodriguez fired a shot but missed the target. Piraeus again threatened with the same player in the 23rd minute and had another good moment in the 34th minute with Huang.
Mitchell’s team equalized in the 37th minute with a stunning header from James Rodriguez. It was the Colombian’s first goal in a Piraeus shirt. Before the end of the first half, Olympiacos had two more good chances.
In the 52nd minute, Juan got the advantage in pursuit of Kotarski, but his shot was extremely wide of the mark. At 56 minute the Thessaloniki team scored the second goal. Liratsis went to the side, gave beautiful balls to Narey, and the latter easily beat Tsolakis.
In the 58th minute, Gary was in front of Kotarski, went wide, but his shot missed the target. At 61 minute Treimanis awarded a penalty to PAOK after Ba scored on Oliveira, but reversed the decision via VAR.
In the 74th minute, Papastathopoulos headed in from Valbuena’s corner but missed the target. Four minutes later, Bacabu shook his head off Huang’s cross but again missed the target. PAOK found gaps after Piraeus chased down the equalizing goal.
In the 82nd minute, Oliveira took the lead in good conditions, but his efforts proved woefully misplaced. Moments later, Vrusai fired a one-on-one from Valbuena’s through ball, but Kotarski was ready. In the 88th minute, Olympiacos came close to a 2-2 score with El Araby, but the Moroccan did not complete his attempt.
Olympiacos (Mitchell): Tsolakis, Reampchuk, Papastathopoulos, Ba (84′ Ui Jo Huang), Vrusai, Embila, Ying. Juan, Ang. Camara (Masouras, 65), Hames (Valbuena, 71), Gary (El-Arabi, 71), Bacabu.
PAOK (Razvan Rousescu): Kotarski, Tsausis (Sastre, 70), Coulierakis, Ingason, Lyratsis, Kurtich, Dadas (Schwab, 90), El Kaduri, Augusto (Soares, 84), Narei, Oliveira.
Source: Kathimerini
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