Belgian champions Standard Liège made up for their poor form in the Jupiler League with a superb 3-1 away win over the Greek side Panathinaikos in the third round first leg of the Europa League.
Axel Witsel gave Standard an early lead when he headed in Dieumerci Mbokani’s cross after just eight minutes.
Sixteen minutes into the match Milan Jovanovic doubled their lead when he took advantage of a poor mistake by Panathinaikos’ goalkeeper Mario Galinovic.
Lukas Vintra reduced the deficit for the home team early in the second half with another header.
But Igor de Camargo mad sure that the Belgian champions will go back to Liege with a two goal advantage when he scored his team’s third goal in the 74th minute after another superb pass from Jovanovic.
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