There was no fixtures last Sunday because of the Cyprus Presidential elections Apollon suffered their first defeat of the season versus Apoel a 2-1 defeat at the Tsirion stadium.
The two teams were playing for the second time in a week after Apollon’s 4-0 win over Apoel in Nicosia before. Apoel had not beaten Apollon in 12 games.
Apollon opened the scoring with Anton Maglica in the 27th minute Apoel equalised with Ghayas Zahid’s free-kick late in the first half and new signing Nsue scored the winning goal for Apoel in the 50thm minute.
Third-placed Anorthosis had a 1-0 win in Paphos with Calo scoring in the 42nd minute., while AEK are just a point behind following a 4-0 win over Doxa in Larnaca their goals coming from Mosjov, Trickovski, Ba and Catala.
Aris beat Ethnikos Achna 4-0goals coming from Maragoudakis, 2, Kousas and Ionita and Omonia Beating New Salamis 5-1 Omonia’s goals coming from Matt Derbyshire hat trick, Lopes and Kiplani.New Salamis lone goal came from A Correla.
AEL beat Olympiakos 2-1 in Nicosia, while Ermis Aradippou won a thrilling 4-3 away win over Alki Oroklinis.