Greek league rivals Panathinaikos and Olympiakos had their soccer game abandoned on Sunday after fans from host Panathinaikos clashed with police outside Athens' Olympic Stadium, and attempted to attack the Olympiakos bench inside the stadium.
With tear gas heavily used as police tried to get back control, referee Marco Fritz stopped play after 70 minutes. He called the game off a half-hour later, saying the stadium had not been made sufficiently safe with Panathinaikos fans still on the edge of the field.
Olympiakos was leading 1-0 at the time the game was abandoned.
Panathinaikos' players leave the pitch as they trying to avoid teargas thrown by the police during clashes with fans, inside the Athens' Olympic stadium, in Athens, Sunday, March 17, 2019. The derby between Greek league archrivals Panathinaikos and Olympiakos has been abandoned after a small number of Panathinaikos fans clashed with police outside Athens' Olympic stadium. (InTime Sports via AP)
Visiting fans are not allowed at Greek league games for fear of violence.
The game was first interrupted in the sixth minute, when about 30 Panathinaikos fans entered the field and attacked the Olympiakos bench before police intervened.
No arrests were made, and no serious injuries reported, but Olympiakos claimed at least one fan was carrying a knife.
Fans attacked police outside the stadium soon after Olympiakos scored in the 53rd minute.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Rasmus Dahlin scored a pair of power-play goals and the Buffalo Sabres won for the 14th time in their last 16 games, 5-2 over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night.
Mattias Samuelsson, Jack Quinn and Ryan McLeod also scored goals, while Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 20 saves. Josh Doan and Tage Thompson had a pair of assists each for a Sabres team that had just 14 shots and was coming off a Monday night loss to Florida.
Owen Tippett and Trevor Zegras scored for the Flyers, who lost their fourth in a row. Dan Vladar started in net and made three saves in the first period before getting injured and being replaced at the start of the second by Sam Ersson, who made six saves.
Dahlin gave the Sabres the lead at 9:30 of the first period, his first goal since Dec. 20.
Samuelsson made it 2-0 with 4:47 left in the first. Samuelsson now has eight goals this season, one more than his first five NHL seasons combined.
Quinn scored at 4:22 of the second to make it 3-0 before Tippett scored his sixth goal in his last 12 games midway through the period.
Dahlin’s second power-play goal of the night made it 4-1 after two. The Sabres had been on a 1 for 21 stretch on the power play before Wednesday night.
Zegras scored on the power play to make it 4-2 before McLeod added an empty-netter in the last minute.
The Flyers said Vladar will be reevaluated after the game.
The Sabres lost Josh Norris to an upper-body injury after he assisted on Dahlin's second goal.
Flyers: Visit Pittsburgh on Thursday night.
Sabres: Host Montreal on Thursday night.
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Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen makes a save during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
