Apoel on Seven Up
Apoel 7 Livadia 3
What a game this was Apoel who are chasing the Championship were leading 6-0 with half time 5-0 and a goal just after the break giving Apoel a 6-0 lead. You would have thought Livadia would have given up but they still tried and got it down to 6-3. Just before Apoel increased their lead again to 7-3.
Apoel’s goals came from David Knight 1, Matt Gulfer 2, Tam Eyong 3 and Murat Karagul. For Livadia Elias Katsoulides 2 and Luke Demetriades.
This win lifts Apoel to second place.
Olympia 0 Aradippou 0
Olympia and Aradippou are two teams trying to save themselves from relegation to the second division who really battled it out on Sunday but not really creating chances just blanking each other out and within ten minutes Aradippou got a player sent off. Olympia created more chances and missed a penalty too finishing the game 0-0.
Omonia 0 Tripimeni 1
Much improved Omonia gave top of the table Tripimeni a fright they fought hard and created just as many chances as their League leader opponents. It took a first half Peter Antoniades headed goal from a free kick to break the stalemate even so a very entertaining game in the windy conditions.
Second Division
Achna 2 Asha 0
Achna started the game pushing Asha and taking advantage of the wind and soon went ahead on the 11th minute with a goal from Shane Wylie who also added a second two minutes later increasing Achna’s lead to two nil.
The second half Asha started strongly and really pushed for a goal and were unfortunate to only hit the post and bar but it wasn’t to be their day the good thing is Asha are improving with every game and Achna are back in the promotion race.
Pantel 0 KLN 1
Under difficult conditions Pantel started well against a KLN side who had a lot of players returning from injury . As the half went on KLN grew in confidence and put pressure on the Pantel defence but thr first half ended goalless. KLN came out strong in the second half and after being put through by Christopher Papacosta young Portuguse winger Luis Almeida went past two Pantel players and fired home from 25 yards. Pantel pushed for an equaliser but returning KLN goal keeper Max Papacosta was in fine form ensured KLN held out for the win.
Maronites 4 Pendayia 1
Maronites really went to town on Sunday in the second half it was a game of two halves with the wind being decisive in the way the game was going. They started the rout on the 20th minute when Kyri Georgallou scored in the 20th minute. Pendayia equalised with Anthony Kalli in the 35th minute ending the first half 0-0. Second half Lewis Barclay of Maronites stole the show with two penalties in the 50th and 60th minutes. He could have made it a hat trick of penalties, but Lewis missed his third penalty in the 75th minute. Maronite’s fourth goal came with five minutes to go when Tyler Barclay had a great shot after a great run on the right slotting it on the near side of the keeper.