PAOK stumbles at Panathinaikos, allowing Reds to finish second

Olympiakos has dramatically snatched Greece’s 2nd spot successful the Champions League qualifiers astatine the each extremity of the Super League playoffs, while Panserraikos and Larissa person been relegated.

Playing astatine champion AEK, that celebrated its 14th league trophy connected Sunday successful a title fiesta astatine the Allwyn Arena of Nea Filadelfia, Olympiakos needed victory to guarantee it would decorativeness 2nd and get a accidental to instrumentality to the UEFA Champions League adjacent season.

The Reds went up done a Rodinei extremity precocious successful the archetypal half, but Aboubakary Koita pulled AEK level 18 minutes from the end, mounting up a tense finish, with the crippled ending 1-1.

That gave PAOK the accidental to overtake Olympiakos close astatine the extremity with a victory, and the Thessaloniki nine went 2-0 up by half-time, thanks to goals by Magomed Ozdoev and Anestis Mythou, astatine Panathinaikos that had thing to play for.

However the Greens – deprived of their fans owed to a one-game stadium prohibition – bounced backmost successful the 2nd fractional and equalized with goals from Adam Cerin and Vicente Taborda, to get an unlikely 2-2 gully successful the extremity that deprived PAOK of the 2nd spot.

This was the past Greek league location crippled for Panathinaikos  successful their historical location crushed of “Apostolos Nikolaidis.” Next play they will big their games astatine the Olympic Stadium of Athens, while arsenic of the summertime of 2027 they are supposed to determination to their caller stadium presently under operation astatine Votanikos.

The last table of the title playoffs is arsenic follows: AEK 72, Olympiakos 66, PAOK 64 and Panathinaikos 52.

In the 5-8 playoffs, Aris downed 10-man Levadiakos 3-0 to pip it to the 5th post, while OFI bushed visiting Volos 3-1. Aris finished fifth, Levadiakos sixth, OFI seventh and Volos eighth.

Asteras Tripolis managed to unafraid different play successful the Super League, adjacent though it failed to bushed Kifissia astatine location connected Saturday (0-0). That was due to the fact that Panserraikos besides drew astatine location (1-1 with Panetolikos), and Larissa’s 2-1 victory against Atromitos proved meaningless.

With 1 much circular of games to play for the play-outs, and with Panserraikos and Larissa already relegated, Atromitos has 43 points, Kifissia 38, Panetolikos 36, Asteras 33, Larissa 30 and Panserraikos 29.

Kalamata and Iraklis will regenerate Larissa and Panserraikos successful adjacent season’s Super League.