So­ca War­riors in­ter­na­tion­al Levi Gar­cia scored for the sec­ond straight out­ing as AEK Athens kept up their bid for the Stoix­i­man Greece Su­per League ti­tle with a 4-0 ham­mer­ing of PAOK FC in Round Six of their six-club Cham­pi­onship Round se­ries at the OPAP Are­na, Athens Greece, Wednesday.

The vis­i­tors got off to a bad start when Gi­an­nis Kar­gas was is­sued a straight red card via the VAR rul­ing in the tenth minute af­ter which Steven Zu­ber net­ted in the 21st, and Harold Mouk­ou­di three min­utes lat­er, both off of as­sists from Jens Jon­s­son for AEK to lead 2-0 at the half-time in­ter­val.

The 25-year-old Gar­cia then found the back of the next in the 77th minute with his 14th league goal of the cam­paign, and 18th over­all for a 3-0 lead be­fore Pao­lo Fer­nan­des added a fourth item in the 86th to cap off a stel­lar dis­play by the host to move to 75 points from 32 match­es, lev­el with Panathi­naikos who blanked NFC Vo­los 2-0 ahead of their clash on Sun­day while de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Olympia­cos beat­en by Aris 2-1 stayed third with 63 points fol­lowed by PAOK with 60, Aris with 47 and Vo­los FC with 40.

On Sun­day, last Gar­cwhipped host and reign­ing Su­per League cham­pi­ons Olympia­cos 3-1 in Round Five at the Sta­dio Geor­gios Karaiskák on Sun­day.

The vis­i­tors si­lenced the home crowd in the sev­enth minute when Mi­jat Ga­ci­novic net­ted the open­er off an as­sist from Zu­ber and they held that lead un­til the half-time in­ter­val.

Nine min­utes af­ter the restart Cedric Bakam­bu drew Olympia­cos lev­el as they looked to mount a come­back in the hunt for the ti­tle.

How­ev­er, eight min­utes from full-time, Gar­cia played a one-two at the edge of the 18-yard box with Croa­t­ian Do­magoj Vi­da, with the lat­ter then be­ing tripped up in the area by Moldovan Oleg Re­ab­ciuk, re­sult­ing in a penal­ty kick which was ri­fled home in­to the top right-hand cor­ner of the net by Gar­cia to re­store the lead at 2-1 be­fore team­mate Pet­ros Man­ta­los added an in­sur­ance item in the first minute of time added-on.

The 25-year-old Gar­cia and his AEK Athens team­mates are al­ready through to the Greece Novi­bet Cup fi­nal against PAOK on May 23.

This af­ter AEK Athens beat Olympia­cos 4-2 on ag­gre­gate in their home-and-away semi­fi­nal, los­ing their sec­ond-leg semi­fi­nal 1-2 away af­ter win­ning the first-leg 3-0 with Gar­cia scor­ing a dou­ble.

The T&T in­ter­na­tion­al was forced to miss T&T’s re­cent fi­nal two CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League B Group C fix­tures, a 3-0 away win against Ba­hamas on March 24, and three days lat­er a 1-1 draw at home to Nicaragua at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, Ba­co­let, due to an in­jury he sus­tained on Feb­ru­ary 25 which kept him out of ac­tion for 35 days.

Dur­ing his time out in­jured, he al­so missed his club’s two re­main­ing reg­u­lar sea­son match­es, a 3-0 win over OFI Crete on March 5, a 1-0 over Atro­mi­tos Athens on March 8, and a 1-3 loss to Olympia­cos on March 12, as well as the first round of the Cham­pi­onship Round, a 0-0 draw with Panathi­naikos on March 19.