Pantelic on target as Olympiakos close in on top spot

ATHENS, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Olympiakos Piraeus closed the gap on early Super League pacesetters Iraklis to one point on Sunday thanks to a 1-0 victory at Panserraikos.
Serbian striker Marco Pantelic’s goal in the 32nd minute gave football jerseys
Olympiakos their second win in three league matches.
The result means Olympiakos are second with six points, with unbeaten Iraklis leading the way with seven points following the Salonika club’s 1-0 win over Larissa on Saturday.
AEK Athens missed the chance to join Olympiakos on six points when they were held to a 2-2 draw at home to Asteras Tripolis. AEK fought back from two goals down, with strikes in the final 10 minutes from Algeria forward Rafik Djebbour and Argentine winger Nacho Scocco cancelling out earlier efforts from Salim Aras and Kostas Fortounis.
Djibril Cisse scored twice for champions Panathinaikos but the side’s stuttering start continued as they were held to a 2-2 draw at Kavala on Saturday.
Panathinaikos, who were thumped 5-1 in the Champions League by Barcelona in midweek, went ahead through Cisse after 12 minutes but were stunned when Kavala scored twice in three minutes through Douglao and veteran French striker Jean-Claude Darcheville.
Cisse netted again 11 minutes from time but Panathinaikos now lie seventh after Saints jersey
picking up just five points from their first three games.
BERLIN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa further enhanced his growing reputation by scoring the two goals he had promised in their 3-1 Bundesliga win over Ruhr rivals Schalke 04 on Sunday.
The 21-year-old attacking midfielder, plucked from the obscurity of Japan’s second division for only 350,000 euros, struck once in each half and could have added more as he helped his new team outclass last season’s runners-up.
“We will win and I will score two goals,” the smiling Kagawa had said days before the big match at Schalke, one of the Bundesliga’s most fierce rivalries.
He has scored three league goals this season and has also been on target in the Europa League.
Kagawa, not part of Japan’s World Cup team, has seen his market value soar to several million euros since signing a contract that runs to 2013.
It took him only a few minutes to make a mark on the match, forcing Germany and Schalke keeper Manuel Neuer into a double save.
Kagawa went one better in the 20th minute, picking up the ball down the right, gracefully shaking off three defenders and curling a slightly deflected left-foot shot past the helpless Neuer.
Schalke still failed to contain the quick Japanese in the second half San Diego Chargers jersey
and Kagawa, who scored his first league goal last week against VfL Wolfsburg, slipped past the defence and tapped in a Jakub Blaszczykowski cross at the far post.
“This was a well deserved victory,” said Borussia coach Juergen Klopp. “We played an outstanding game.”