PAOK opened the scoring early against Levadeiakos and eventually won 3-0 to join Olympiacos on 57 points, waiting to see what AEK do at Peristeri.
The game started in the best possible way for the Black and White, as they opened the scoring before the first 10 minutes were up. On 7 minutes, in fact, Kornezos made a big mistake by losing the ball to Konstantelia, who gave Tyson a ready 1-0 lead. From early on, therefore, Razvan Louchescu’s team had the lead and that of Nikos Papadopoulos tried to climb the rest of the way.
The Boeotians could have been dangerous on 16 minutes through Pedroso but Lovren had time to make the tackle and they generally took measures up the pitch, but failed to really threaten. They even made a forced substitution on 30 minutes as Hannah was unable to continue and left his place to Magnuson.
The Livadia team could, finally, equalize on 45 minutes as Lagius and Pedroso made a nice counterattack but didn’t finish it as they wanted to and Tsiftsis managed to block it. Thus, the first half ended with the score at 1-0 and the second half started with a 2-0 score.
On 47 minutes, Hatsidis found Yeremeyev and he did everything right, down and out, setting the stage for a victory for the “bicephalos of the north” (2-0). A victory that was finalized a few minutes later, on 57 minutes, when Ozdoev made a nice play and passed to Hatsidis, who shot as he should have for the 3-0.
With everything now decided, the tempo of the game dropped considerably, Razvan Louchescu made the changes he wanted to make and PAOK relaxed to take the win and continue strongly in the title battle.
PAOK (Razvan Lucescu): Tsiftsis, Sanchez, Kendziora, Lovren (69′ Michailidis), Baba, Zafiris, Ozdoev (80′ Kamara), Konstantelias (69′ Ivanousets), Hatsidis (74′ Despondov), Tyson, Yeremeyev (74′ Mythou).
Levadeiakos (Nikos Papadopoulos):Lodigin, Vichos, Abu Hana (30′ Magnuson), Kornezos (58′ Symelidis), Chapras, Balchi (79′ Nikas), Chokai, Filon, Layous (79′ Verbic), Pedroso, Osbolts (79′ Ozegovic).
