Late equalizer keeps PAOK in the lead

PAOK returned from 2-0 down to snatch a precious point at AEK and stay at the top of the Super League table, while Panathinaikos and Olympiakos are increasingly back into the game for the title.

AEK drew 2-2 with PAOK in the fourth round of the Super League playoffs on Sunday in a most entertaining top-of-the-table clash at the OPAP Arena in Athens.

The hosts advanced via goals from Mijat Gacinovic and Nordin Amrabat, but PAOK went level thanks to strikes by Abdul Rahman Baba and Magomed Ozdoev.

That has kept PAOK one point ahead of AEK at the top, but Panathinaikos is now within two points from the leader thanks to its 2-0 victory at Aris, through a swerving shot by Andraz Sporar and an own goal from Jakub Brabec.

Olympiakos has also edged closer to the top via an emphatic 5-1 win at Lamia. The hosts scored three times, but two of the times they found...