Panathinaikos dealt out a crushing defeat to Aberdeen who had a miserable start to their UEFA Cup campaign.
After a closely-contested first half in which Giannis Goumas headed Pana in front, two late second half strikes in the space of just four minutes from Greek international duo Dimitris Papadopoulos and Dimitris Salpigidis completed a convincing win for Jose Peseiro's team.
The hosts started strongly, winning two corners inside the first three minutes, but an Aberdeen counter attack in the fourth minute should have resulted in the visitors taking the lead.
A neat passing move saw Barry Nicholson release Ricard Foster down the left and he skipped past Mikael Nilsson before whipping in a low centre which arrived at the feet of Chris Clark through a crowd of bodies. Clark's first time effort fizzed narrowly over the crossbar, though.
Aberdeen were then made to pay for that miss in the 12th minute when they fell behind to a goal from a set-piece.
Pana defender Goumas beat Andrew Considine to Andreas Ivanschitz's free-kick at the near post to glance a header past James Langfield and into the bottom left hand corner.
Pana showed their attacking intent just after the break when dangerman Dame N'Doye broke through in the right side of the Dons penalty area and held off Alexander Diamond's challenge before shooting into the side netting in the opening minute.
Aberdeen were lucky not to go two goals down when N'Doye's outstretched leg narrowly failed to connect with Salpigidis' low, right-wing cross on 55 minutes.
It was Panathinaikos who continued to make more scoring chances and Alexandros Tziolis headed inches just wide from a corner on 70 minutes.
And it came as no surprise when Aberdeen went two goals down with 17 minutes remaining.
Ivanschitz was again the architect for Pana, playing in substitute Papadopoulos with a defence-splitting pass which the Greece striker slotted neatly into the bottom right hand corner through Langfield's legs.
Langfield was then beaten for a third time just four minutes later. Mair brought down Tziolis just outside the penalty area and although Ivanschitz's curling free-kick was parried by Langfield, the ball fell straight into the path of Salpigidis, who rammed home Pana's third from six yards.
