Akpom seals PAOK’s first ever double

PAOK completed on Saturday the first double in its history, as in the Greek Cup final played behind closed doors at the Olympic Stadium of Athens it beat AEK 1-0 with a wonderful goal by Chuba Akpom.

The former Arsenal striker scored at the end of the first half to seal PAOK's third consecutive Cup triumph and seventh overall, that completes the club's best ever season.

The match was quite entertaining for the 900 fans and the 3,000 police officers in the stadium for fear of hooligan clashes, such as those in the previous finals between the two teams, in 2017 in Volos and last year in Athens.

AEK started off the better team in the first half-hour, missing a couple of decent chances, PAOK responded with two chances of its own before Dmytro Chygrynskiy saw his effort cleared right on the line by PAOK keeper Alexandros Paschalakis.

A few minutes later, the...