Soudani's brace retains Olympiakos on top

Olympiakos had to work hard to beat OFI at home and stay alone on top of the Super League on Saturday, three days before its Champions League clash with Bayern Munich in Piraeus.

The Reds won 2-1 thanks to a brace by Hillal Soudani, who scored before and after Adil Nabi's equalizer for OFI. The Piraeus team has 19 points, with champion PAOK on 17. Next Sunday Olympiakos clashes with crosstown rival AEK.

PAOK scored three times in the first 11 minutes of its home game with Lamia and then took it easy, as the goals by Josip Misic, Dimitris Limnios and Karol Swiderski sufficed for the 3-0 win that brought PAOK up to the second spot.

That was also due to the 1-0 loss of Xanthi at home to Aris on the debut of German manager Michael Oenning on the Thessaloniki team's bench. Bruno Gama scored for the visitors who left Xanthi in third with 15 points. Aris has climbed...