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THESSALONIKI Cheap Barcelona Soccer Team Uniform , Greece (AP) — PAOK won the Greek league for the first time in 34 years after beating Levadiakos 5-0 Sunday.Yevhen Shakhv scored twice for the hosts, along with goals from Diego Biseswar, Fernando Varela and Karol Swiderski.With one round left, PAOK is five points ahead of second-place Olympiakos.PAOK also won the title in 1976 and 1985.With PAOK already up 2-0 after Biseswar scored from the penalty spot in the eighth minute, the game turned into a long, raucous celebration.“I was 18 (when PAOK last won the league) and now I’m 52. This says everything,” said PAOK fan Nikos Kouroutzidis. “Obviously, a great moment. I hope I don’t get to 90 before we win the next championship.”A huge celebration at the city’s waterfront was underway with tens of thousands of fans at the city’s iconic monument, the White Tower, waiting to greet PAOK’s players as their bus slowly inched forward.“People have been patient … the people have been yearning for one all these years,” said former PAOK star Giorgos Koudas. The 72-year-old attacking midfielder www.thetopsoccer.com/club-team-kit/bayern-munich , who spent all of his senior career at PAOK from 1963 to 1984, playing 602 games, was the captain of the team that won the title in 1976.Larissa, the 1988 champion, is the only team other than PAOK to break the stranglehold of the Athens “big three” — AEK, Olympiakos and Panathinaikos — ever since a national league started in 1959.“PAOK represents the struggle of the downtrodden against the powerful,” said Father Christos Mitsios, a 60-year-old priest, who is a regular at PAOK’s games. “The hope that at some day we would break the establishment kept us strong all these years,” he said, while struggling to be heard above the bass drum beaten by “Ze TheTopSoccer ,” another Toumba Stadium fixture.For Koudas, things have been improving lately, and he prefers to focus on the growing gap at club level between Greek soccer and most other European countries.“We get rid of coaches too easily, we don’t bring in quality players. We need investment, and a good organization,” he said.PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis, a Greek-Russian tycoon, provided investment but was also partly responsible for PAOK missing out on a very close race last season after storming the field near the end of a game with eventual champion AEK. A gun in a holster was clearly visible underneath his coat. When Andros Townsend fired the ball past Alisson at Anfield on Saturday afternoon, it was not just Crystal Palace fans who were celebrating. Supporters of Manchester City, who began the weekend four points behind leaders Liverpool in the race for the Premier League title, were also full of cheer as they contemplated a repeat of the upset which saw Roy Hodgson’s men win 3-2 at the Eithad Stadium last month.In the end Cheap Dortmund Soccer Team Uniform , another odds-defying away win proved a step too far for Palace. Townsend may have given them the lead after some excellent work by Wilfried Zaha down the left flank, but goals from Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino early in the second half put Liverpool back in control. Palace were not done there, though, levelling the scores in the 65th minute after James Tomkins headed home his first goal of the season from a Luka Milivojevic corner.Salah then took advantage of a mistake from stand-in goalkeeper Julian Speroni to make it 3-2, before Sadio Mane doubled the hosts’ lead in stoppage time after James Milner had been dismissed for a second bookable offence. There was still more drama to come as Max Meyer converted Palace’s third in the dying stages, but Liverpool held on to temporarily move seven points clear at the summit of the standings ahead of City’s clash with Huddersfield Town on Sunday.It was a thrilling match which was not in keeping with how Liverpool’s season has gone up to now. Prior to the weekend, Jurgen Klopp’s men had conceded only 10 goals in 22 games, which was comfortably the best record in the top flight, and kept a league-high 13 clean sheets. Unlike Liverpool teams of previous seasons, the 2018/19 version have demonstrated an ability to control and manage games, rather than simply outgun opponents in end-to-end encounters.Saturday’s game was a throwback to the Liverpool sides of 2017/18 www.thetopsoccer.com/club-team-kit/chelsea , whose results in all competitions included a 4-3 win and three 3-3 draws, and 2016/17, which opened with a 4-3 victory at Arsenal and also featured a 4-3 loss to Bournemouth, a 4-2 defeat of Palace and a shock 3-2 reverse against Swansea City.The signings of Alisson and Virgil van Dijk last year are a big reason for Liverpool’s improved solidity, but Klopp also deserves credit for making structural changes to his team. It is significant that the Merseysiders no longer have to play at 100 miles per hour to win games, although they do retain the capacity to blow teams away in short bursts if the situation calls for it.It is that ability which helped them reach the Champions League final last term, but a more measured style was always likely to be necessary if Liverpool were going to end their long wait for a 19th league title. Klopp will therefore hope that Saturday’s helter-skelter success against Palace was a one-off; although another 14 4-3 victories would guarantee Liverpool the championship crown, it is not really a sustainable way to triumph in a title race.Hodgson, meanwhile, will take great encouragement from his team’s display, even if they ultimately left Anfield empty-handed. As well as Speroni’s error Cheap Inter Milan Soccer Team Uniform , Liverpool relied on good fortune for two more goals, with deflections playing a helping hand in Salah’s first strike and Firmino’s effort too. The home side were the better team overall, but Palace certainly gave them a scare with their counter-attacking threat.The performance of Wilfried Zaha was perhaps the biggest positive for the south Londoners. The Ivory Coast international has not been at his best in recent weeks, when he has often been deployed alongside Andros Townsend up front. Zaha remains most dangerous when he can square up to full-backs in wide areas, and it was no surprise to see him give makeshift right-back Milner a torrid time on Saturday afternoon.“This was a good performance, in many ways. It was a good performance in both halves. In the first-half our defensive organisation and discipline was excellent, we went in 1-0 thanks to a couple of good counter attacks, one of which presented a goal,” Hodgson told reporters in his post-match press conference.“I’m extremely proud of the players’ performance. I thought it was a really good team performance in every respect and we are playing against a team that don’t lose at home anyway and have got a lot of very talented players.“They have a wealth of talent which has been put together over a period of years and has cost a fair degree of money into the bargain. I thought that for large periods of the game we held our own – more than held our own – against then towards the end of the game.”