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Chuba Akpom opens PAOK goal account in Panetolikos victory

Chuba Akpom scored his first PAOK goal to help the Stadio Toumbas outfit claim a 2-1 victory over Panetolikos in Sunday's Greek Super League encounter.

Since his move from Arsenal to Greece in the summer, the 23-year-old has been on the fringe of Razvan Lucescu‘s set-up, with all of his seven appearances for the side coming as a substitute.

On Sunday, he continued with his bit-part role but came off the bench in the 57th minute to put up a man-of-the-match display.

He netted what would be the winner after Nikolaos Marinakis’ own goal had opened the scoring for the hosts in the 63rd minute [three before the Nigeria trainee's effort].

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Sierra Leone striker Alhassan Kamara halved the deficit in the 73rd minute, but the Super League table-toppers held on for their ninth win in the league this season.

PAOK play Ergotelis in a Cup encounter on Wednesday, and the former Sint-Truiden attacker will hope to have done enough to get his full debut.

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