Daniel Podence

The lead of the Super League race has changed hands again, as PAOK lost at home to Aris and AEK has overtaken it, but the most spectacular win belonged to Panathinaikos that defeated archrival Olympiakos in Piraeus.

Olympiakos stunned PAOK at Toumba on Sunday, reducing its distance to the top and allowing AEK to lead the table, as Panathinaikos also dropped points.

On Jose Luis Mendilibar's league debut on their bench, the Reds downed PAOK 4-1 with a very efficient and composed game, probably their best so far in the season.

ATHENS - Serbia's TSC lost to Greek side Olympiacos 5-2 away from home in the last round of the UEFA Europa League group stage on Thursday evening.

Ayoub El Kaabi (21 min), Daniel Podence (40, 42 min), Vejko Ilic (46 min OG) and Youssef El-Arabi (68 min) provided the goals for Olympiacos, while Ifet Djakovac (48 min) and Aleksandar Cvetkovic (61 min) scored for TSC.

Olympiakos and PAOK will represent Greece in Europe in the new year, playing in the knock-out stages of the Europa Conference League, while AEK and Panathinaikos dropped out of Europe after their losses on Thursday.

Olympiakos and AEK scored important wins on Monday to keep up the pressure on Super League leader Panathinaikos, in a round of games that also tightened up the battle at the bottom of the table with two teams scoring their maiden wins for the season.

BACKA TOPOLA - Serbia's TSC Backa Topola drew 2-2 with Greek football giants Olympiacos at home in a UEFA Europa League Group A match on Thursday evening.

Ifet Djakovac and Milos Pantovic scored for the hosts in the 63rd and the 90th minute, respectively, and Georgios Masouras and Daniel Podence netted for Olympiacos in the 16th and the 57th minute, respectively.

Olympiakos and PAOK scored comfortable away wins on Sunday to keep leading the Super League race after the 14th round of games, while Panathinaikos has risen to fifth for the first time this season.

Tough nut Olympiakos came back from 2-0 down to snatch a 2-2 draw from Tottenham on its opening night in the Champions League in Piraeus on Wednesday.

The Reds were pushed all the way by last season's finalist, but stood the pressure and held the result they had secured from early in the second half.

In a weekend where the top six teams of the table faced each other, the Athens derby between AEK and Panathinaikos ended goalless and PAOK got even closer to sealing an unbeaten championship title.

Most Super League teams appeared to have the Carnival in mind over the weekend, as out of the 14 teams in action on Saturday and Sunday only six did find the back of their opponent's net.

PAOK is closer than ever not only to winning its first league title after 34 years, but also to finishing the league unbeaten, after comprehensively defeating its main rival Olympiakos 3-1 at home on Sunday.