The KOPA Football League kicked off this Sunday in style with the sun blazing.
First Division
New Salamis 9 Maronites 0
New Salamis are continuing last season’s goal form into this season. They started off slow versus the Maronites who took the red’s by surprise at first who played well until the first goial went in then it all changed to a very one sided game with New Salamis goals coming from Leon Bell, Lawrence Constanti, Deniz Mehmet, Ahmet Rifat 2, George Georgiou and Nico Muir 3.
Anorthosis 2 Brotherthood 3
Anorthosis must be kicking themselves after leading 1-0 with a goal from Stavros Tsirtsipis in the 20th minute and straight after the break Fabian hit the bar. In the 70th minute Brotherhood woke up and came into their own, Ismet equalised with a shot that came off the post then they took the lead when Koray flicked the ball into the back of the net from close range. Brotherhood’s star striker Aaron Kennedy made it 3-1 with a shot from the edge of the box. Anorthosis reduced the score to 3-2 late in the game with a penalty scored by Charlie,
Cetinkaya Cinar 1 Livadia 2
First game of the sesson and a few rusty boots as both sides squandered good chances, but it was newly promoted Cetinkaya Cinar who took the lead on 29 minutes with a fabulous interchanging of passes resulting in a great pass by Zaine Martin to Tarik Kucuk who ran and dinked the ball over the Livadia keeper for 1-0.
Komi Kebir 1 Asha 0
The first goal of the new season came in this game and it was credited to the home team Komi Kebir but it was a shame that it was an own goal, when a Sotiri Vassiliou shot that took a deflection, it ended with being with the only goal of the game giving Komi Kebir a 1-0 win over Asha. Both teams created several chances but their mean defences kept the score low.
A one minute silence was observed at the game in memory of Asha’s manager Mario’s brother who sadly died on Friday.
St Panteleimon 7 Achna 1
League newcomers St Panteleimon surprised everybody with a 7-1 win over Achna and judging by recent predictions they are favourites to win the second division championship. St Panteleimon’s scorers were Donald Manaj 1, Vitel Andrei 1, Nikos Salapatas 2, Costas Mina 1, Roberto Katsikas 1 and Alex DimgKioka 1. Achna’s lone scorer was Chris Petrou.
Pantel 2 Arachne 2
Much improved Pantel gave Arachne a battle on Sunday with one of the more entertaining games on Sunday. Arachne led from the 30th minute with a goal from Antony Panayi who scored with a shot from the edge of the box. Pantel equalised ten minutes later with a penalty taken by Daniel Moysis.
Pantel took the lead after the break with a long range shot from Andrew KItipos but Chris Mikkides equalised soon after in the game for Arachne to finish the game 2-2.
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