ALMATY (Interstat) — Panathinaikos scored four unanswered goals before FK Kairat Almaty Under 19 answered late, and the visitors left Stadïon Akademïï T.S.Segïzbaeva with a 5-1 win on Thursday.

Cyriel Dessers recorded a two-goal game for Panathinaikos, with one of those goals arriving in the 47th minute. Vicente Taborda opened the scoring in the sixth minute, Kings Kangwa scored in the 57th, Elmin Rastoder added a goal in the 75th and Ismail Bekbolat pulled one back for Kairat Almaty Under 19 in the 79th.

The decisive part of the match was Panathinaikos’s four-goal surge before Bekbolat’s late reply. Taborda’s sixth-minute goal set the tone, and Dessers’ 47th-minute strike came after Kairat Almaty Under 19 had made a 32nd-minute substitution and another change at halftime. Panathinaikos led 1-0 at halftime, then added goals from Dessers, Kangwa and Rastoder before Bekbolat scored. Dessers departed in the 56th minute as part of a double substitution for Panathinaikos, shortly before Kangwa scored. Panathinaikos then made further changes in the 65th and 75th minutes while holding its advantage. Kairat Almaty Under 19 made additional substitutions in the 65th minute as it tried to find a way back into the game, but Panathinaikos’s lead remained secure until Bekbolat’s goal.

Kairat Almaty Under 19’s Tapalov was booked in the 25th minute. Panathinaikos’s Palmer-Brown and Kairat Almaty Under 19’s Mrynskiy were booked in first-half stoppage time, and Kangwa was cautioned in the 77th. Panathinaikos used substitutions at 56, 65 and 75 minutes, including Camara, Andino, Louza and de Vrij. Kairat Almaty Under 19’s changes included Baybek at 32 minutes and Edmilson at 46 minutes before Mata, Gual and Oksanen were involved in the 65th-minute substitutions.

Dessers had two goals in 56 minutes. Taborda had one goal in 90 minutes. Rastoder had one goal in 34 minutes. Kangwa had one goal and a yellow card in 34 minutes. Andrews Tetteh and Giorgos Kiriakopoulos each had an assist in 90 minutes. Bekbolat had one goal in 25 minutes for Kairat Almaty Under 19, and Alexandr Shirobokov had an assist in 58 minutes.

The match included four yellow cards and a series of substitutions after the break. Panathinaikos’s Tetteh and Kiriakopoulos each finished with an assist, while Dessers’s two goals came in a 56-minute appearance. Kangwa scored and was booked. Kairat Almaty Under 19’s Bekbolat scored in the 79th, with Shirobokov providing the assist. The visitors’ four-goal run covered the sixth, 47th, 57th and 75th minutes before Bekbolat’s reply.

The result moved Panathinaikos to two wins and no losses in the competition and six wins and one loss across all competitions. Kairat Almaty Under 19 is now without a win in the competition at one loss and one draw, and its overall record stands at two wins, one loss and one draw. Panathinaikos entered after a 5-1 home win over Asteras Tripolis and a 2-1 home win over Borac Banja Luka, with a 1-0 loss at Olympiacos Piraeus before that. Kairat Almaty Under 19 had beaten Ertis 5-0 at home, drawn 1-1 at Riga FC and beaten Zhetysu 1-0 at home. Panathinaikos is scheduled to visit Volos in its next Super League 1 match, followed by a home game against AEK, a trip to Iraklis, a home match against OFI, a trip to Atromitos, a home match against AS Aris Thessalonikis, a visit to PAOK B, a home game against Iraklis, a trip to Tripolis and a visit to OFI.

Interstat’s game simulator projected a 3-1 Panathinaikos win, and its ELO system gave Panathinaikos a 54.7 percent probability to win. Panathinaikos was installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -1. The total score of 6 went under the over/under line of 2.5.