ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Djibril Cisse scored two goals and set up two more to lead defending champion Panathinaikos to a 4-2 victory over Kavala in the Greek league on Sunday.
Costas Katsouranis and Lazaros Christodoulopoulos also scored for Panathinaikos while Djamel Abdoun got both goals for Kavala.
The match was played before empty stands in the 70,000-seat Olympic Stadium with Panathinaikos serving a one-match ban due to violent fan behavior.
Olympiakos beat Panserraikos 4-2 on Saturday and leads the league with 45 points, five more than Panathinaikos.
PAOK and AEK Athens, both 3-0 away winners over Volos and Asteras respectively, share third place with 30 points.
In other games Sunday, visiting Ergotelis beat Xanthi 1-0, Panionios upset host Aris 2-0 and last-place Larissa won for the first time in nine games, beating Iraklis 2-1.
Kavala opened the scoring when Abdoun pounced on Josu Sarriegi's back pass to shoot past goalkeeper Alexandros Tzorvas in the third minute.
The hosts leveled when Cisse passed Loucas Vyntra's long ball on to Katsouranis, who scored from close range in the 12th.
In the 31st, Katsouranis found Cisse in Kavala's area with a through ball.
Goalkeeper Lopez Vallejo parried the French striker's shot but Cisse got the rebound and put Panathinaikos ahead.
Abdoun scored from the penalty spot in the 43rd after his cross was handled by a Panathinaikos defender to level at 2-2.
Cisse hit his league-leading 16th goal of the season from the penalty spot to restore Panathinaikos' lead in the 65th after teammate Sotiris Ninis had been brought down in the area by defender Pierre Ducrocq.
Christodoulopoulos made it 4-2 on a breakaway goal in the 83rd. Stergios Marinos sent a long pass to Cisse on the wing near the halfway line. Cisse outsprinted the defense before squaring inside the area to Christodoulopoulos, who slotted the ball in from close range.
Christodoulopoulos, who had come on for Sidney Govou in the 61st, nearly made it 5-2 in injury time but his shot struck the post.
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