The visitors had a scare moments later when Djordjevic's corner was helped on by Ieroklis Stoltidis' head but Vassilis Torosidis failed to make clean contact.
Vassilis Monastiriotis of the Hellenic Observatory at the London School of Economics predicted that the international community will show patience with the new Greek government at least until September, not least because any alternative would be far more radical and anti-European.