HERAKLION, Greece (Interstat) — OFI Crete beat visiting PAOK 2-1 on Sunday, using goals from Taxiarchis Fountas and Athanasios Thanasis Androutsos to secure the home result. Fountas opened the scoring in the 38th minute and played 89 minutes before being substituted. Androutsos played the full match, scored for OFI Crete and was booked in the 60th minute. PAOK’s Simon Banza scored in the 89th minute during a 22-minute appearance, but the visitors could not complete a comeback. OFI Crete held on through a tense finish that included five yellow cards and a series of late substitutions.

Fountas’s 89-minute outing produced OFI Crete’s opening goal in the 38th minute. Androutsos, who was on the field for the entire match, also scored for the hosts and received a yellow card in the 60th minute. Banza’s 22-minute appearance yielded PAOK’s goal in the 89th minute. Cantalapiedra played 72 minutes and recorded an assist before being substituted, and Hatzidiakos played 37 minutes and recorded an assist for PAOK.

The match grew increasingly physical after halftime. Jakic was booked for PAOK in the 57th minute, Androutsos for OFI Crete in the 60th, Diego Costa for PAOK in the 63rd, Athanasiou for OFI Crete in the 78th and Chatzigiovanis for OFI Crete in the fifth minute of stoppage time. Diego Costa was among the players withdrawn in the 68th minute after his booking. The game featured five yellow cards overall, three for OFI Crete and two for PAOK.

PAOK made its first change in the 53rd minute when Michailidis came off and three more in the 68th, when Jakic, Ugresic and Diego Costa were substituted. OFI Crete made three changes in the 72nd minute, with Dickmann, Bouchalakis and Cantalapiedra coming off, one in the 79th when Nuss was replaced and removed Fountas in the 89th. Taison came on for PAOK in the 86th minute. Fountas came off in the 89th minute, the same minute Banza scored for PAOK. PAOK used substitutions in the 53rd, 68th and 86th minutes, while OFI Crete used substitutions in the 72nd, 79th and 89th minutes.

OFI Crete took the lead in the 38th minute and held it into halftime. PAOK made changes after the break, including a 53rd-minute substitution and a triple change in the 68th, as it sought to respond. The visitors’ pressure produced Banza’s late goal, but OFI Crete had already built a two-goal cushion through Fountas and Androutsos. The hosts then saw out the final minutes, with Fountas withdrawn in the 89th and Chatzigiovanis booked in stoppage time.

The win moved OFI Crete to one win and two losses in the competition and one win and four losses across all competitions. PAOK fell to two wins and one loss in the competition and two wins and one loss overall. OFI Crete secured its first win in the competition, while PAOK absorbed its first loss in the competition. PAOK had won its previous two matches in the competition, beating Iraklis 1908 2-1 and Panaitolikos 3-1. OFI Crete had lost its previous four across all competitions, including a 2-0 loss to Bayer Leverkusen, a 4-3 loss at Kalamata, a 2-1 loss at Rennes and a 3-0 loss at AEK Athens.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of PAOK 4, OFI Crete 1. Interstat’s ELO system had projected PAOK with a 90.3 percent probability to win. PAOK had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -0.5. The total of 3 went under the over/under line of 2.5.