Kiril Despodov

AEK and PAOK emerged victorious from their Sunday challenges at the Super League playoffs, beating Olympiakos and Panathinaikos respectively to pull away from their defeated rivals.

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.

Super League leaders scored plenty of goals on Sunday in their comfortable wins that left the situation unchanged at the top of the table.

Lamia inflicted a shocking loss on Olympiakos at the start of the new year in the Super League, while the other three title rivals scored comfortable home wins.

PAOK and Panathinaikos produced impressive displays on the road in the midweek Super League fixtures, while AEK and Olympiakos drooped two points each and lost ground to their rivals.

PAOK has moved to the top of the Greek Super League at the start of the regular season's second half, as Panathinaikos and AEK dropped points on the road.

The Super League resumed last weekend behind closed doors, as will be the case for the next two months and up to February 12 at least.

LESKOVAC - The Serbia men's national football team has secured a historic EURO berth by drawing 2-2 with Bulgaria in the last EURO 2024 Group G qualifying game in Leskovac, southern Serbia, on Sunday.

The national team will play at EURO 2024 in Germany for the first time under its present name and also for the first time since 2000.

Bulgaria lost its visit to Lithuania with 1:3 in a match of Group C of the world qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Zone Europe.

Bulgaria's national football team surprised the football world after stopping European champions Italy in its first match since winning the Euro 2020 title.

The team led by the coach Yasen Petrov finished 1: 1 in Florence in the world qualification from group C.

Bulgarian national football team started with a defeat the participation in the WC qualifiers, losing 1: 3 to Switzerland. The game at the National Stadium "Vasil Levski" confirmed the tendency of Bulgaria to play hard with the Swiss, as we continue to have no success at home.