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Panathinaikos and Atletico Madrid both made it to the knock-out rounds of the Champions League last season and played a thrilling contest in their first-leg play-off in Greece. Sergio Aguero scored the winning goal as he mattress-makers won 3-2.

Maxi Rodriguez gave the Spaniards the lead, before the Greeks equalised through Salpingidis straight after half-time. However, Atletico established a two goal advantage through Diego Forlan and Sergio Aguero, before Sebastian Leto’s late reply gave the Shamrocks a glimmer of hope for the return match next week.

The encounter began slowly, with Atletico looking to contain and frustrate the partisan home crowd, and Panathinaikos found it extremely difficult to create any clear-cut opportunities. New signing Djbril Cisse wasted a decent opening before Dimitrios Salpingidis was rightly flagged offside when he prodded home inside the six yard box.