AEK beats Olympiakos to build a five-point advantage

Koita scores AEK's extremity with hardly 5 minutes connected the timepiece [InTime Sports].

A fifth-minute extremity by Aboubakary Koita, with a clever changeable from wrong the box, settled the derby astatine the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium and gave AEK a five-point vantage implicit Olympiakos, arsenic well arsenic PAOK, astatine the top of the Super League table.

This 1-0 win for AEK astatine the location crushed of its closest rival astatine the start of the playoffs whitethorn well beryllium decisive for the contention to this year’s title, while Olympiakos remains unable to people and its fans started booing their ain players successful the second stages of the game. “This is not however we imagination of Olympiakos,” chanted the Reds’ faithful.

AEK appeared to travel the look of Panathinaikos successful Piraeus connected February 8 (with the aforesaid people too), with an aboriginal extremity for the distant team and a solid defence that forced Olympiakos to edifice to a frustrating bid of crosses doomed to casual clearance by the strong cardinal defenders of the visitors.

Substitute Yusuf Yazici did find the nett successful wounded clip for Olympiakos, but Lorenzo Pirola was successful an offside presumption and deemed to person blocked the AEK keeper’s view.

PAOK shared a goalless gully with Panathinaikos successful Toumba, successful the different crippled of the title playoffs connected Sunday, with the Greens astatine their champion crippled of the three they person played successful that crushed this play (including the Cup semifinal). They still person an extracurricular accidental of catching PAOK oregon Olympiakos successful third, though they stay 8 points down with 5 games near to to play.

AEK is connected 63 points, PAOK and Olympiakos travel with 58, and Panathinaikos is connected 50.

In the playoffs for the 5th place, Levadiakos retained its five-point vantage with its 1-1 gully against visiting Aris, arsenic Volos and OFI besides drew 1-1.

Asteras Tripolis and Panserraikos whitethorn still beryllium successful the driblet zone, but entered the play-outs with precious victories: Asteras chopped the region with Larissa to three points with its 3-1 win against it successful Tripoli, and Panserraikos defeated big Kifissia 2-1 to stay level connected points with Asteras.

Also successful the playouts, Panetolikos drew 1-1 with Atromitos.