Fanis Gekas scored his third goal since joining Panathinaikos last month, helping the Athens team edge Egaleo 1-0 and move it closer to Greek league leader Olympiakos.
Gekas, who leads the league with 13 goals, scored the lone goal in the 29th minute after goalmouth melee. He got his first 10 goals of the season with Kallithea.
Olympiakos, which lost at 10-man Ergotelis 2-1, still leads the league with 41 points. Panathinaikos is next with 39 points, followed by AEK Athens with 38. AEK beat Iraklis 2-1 on Saturday.
Former Egyptian international Hany Ramzy is retiring with immediate effect and is set to take up a coaching career, his Bundesliga club, Kaiserslautern, said Sunday.
Ramzy, 35, has been sidelined with a knee injury. His contract runs out at the end of the season and with little chance of him becoming a starter again, Ramzy decided to retire, the club said.
He will start a coaching course Monday and will later join Kaiserslautern's junior coaching staff, the club said.
Ramzy joined Kaiserslautern in 1998 after four years at Werder Bremen. He had 22 Bundesliga games as a defender and midfielder and scored 15 goals. Ramzy had 124 caps for Egypt.
Andriy Shevchenko injured
Striker Andriy Shevchenko of AC Milan was released from the hospital Sunday, but will require surgery to fix a cheekbone fracture.
The Milan club said it was not immediately clear how long the Ukraine international would be sidelined, but he will certainly miss this week's Champions League match against Manchester United and next Sunday's derby with crosstown rival Inter Milan.
Shevchenko, recently named Europe's best player of 2004, was injured during the first half of Milan's Serie A match against Cagliari, which Milan won 1-0. He was butted in the face by a Cagliari defender as they were trying to head the ball.
"Sheva," who has scored 14 goals this season, spent the night in a Milan hospital pending examinations. AC Milan officials said the surgery will be performed within a few days.
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