Omonia 1 Doxa 3
Alki 0 New Salamis 4
Pafos 1 AEK 1
Apoel made hard work of beating Olympiakos and a Nick Ioannou goal winner in the sixth minute of added time gave the current leaders Apoel a 3-2 win.
That’s after Olympiakos made it 2-2 in the second minute of added time with a goal from Torres.
Olympiakos other goal came from Soteriou in the 50th minute. Apoel’s other goals came from Salai 33rd minute and Delatore 78th minute. This leaves Apoel top with 63 points.
Second in the table is Apollon with 61 points after beating already relegated Ethnikos Achnas 4 -1.
Their goals coming from Skempri, Sardinero, Zelayia and Markovits.
Ethnikos goal came from Michael Charalambous.
Anorthosis beat AEL at the Tsirion 1-0 with their goal coming from Torres to keep Anorthosis in third place.
Ermis beat Aris 4-1 with their goals coming from Zacharia, Mondeiro, Kyprianou and Constantinou and Ionitsa scored for Aris.
Doxa Katokopias has beaten Omonia twice in two weeks.
Doxa’s goals came from kifioti, Papaphotis and Poutziouris. Katsantonis scored for Omonia.
New Salamis beat Alki 4-0 their goals coming from Carlao, Santos, Eloundou and Damahou.
AEK drew with Pafos with a goal in added time from Larena
.Pafos goal was scored by Bengual.
Standings: APOEL 63, Apollon 62, Anorthosis 56, AEK 43, AEL48, Omonia 44, Doxa 34, Ermis 30, Paphos 26, Nea Salamina 24, Alki 23, Olympiakos 20, Aris 16, Ethnikos 8.
The second phase of the league begins next weekend 3-4 March 2018.
For the first Group Apollon will face AEL, APOEL will play against Omonia and AEK against Anorthosis.
For the second Group, Olympiakos will face Doxa, Ermis will face Alki and Nea Salamina will play against Paphos.
In the play offs at present, 14 clubs compete in the league. Each club plays the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, which makes a total of 26 games for each club. Since 2007-08 the league has a second round. In the second round the first 12 teams are separated into groups of 4 teams according to their position at the end of the first round. The last two teams are relegated to the second division. The points from the first round are carried to the second round and the teams play the other teams twice.In the play offs teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss.
The league champions are entitled to entrance in the UEFA Champions League in the first qualifying round. The winner of the Cypriot Cup and runner-up in the league automatically enters the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. The third placed team enters the UEFA Europa League on the first qualifying round. If the cup winners are also league champions, then the losing cup finalists are granted a UEFA Europa League berth. If the cup winners qualify for Europe by their league position, then the fourth-placed team in the league qualifies for the UEFA Europa League.
