KOPA League
Sunday 25th February 2018
Division One
New Salamis 4 Anorthosis 1
Omonia 3 Livadia 2
Pantel 0 Olympia 6
Division Two
Achna 2 Brotherhood 1
Asha 4 KLN 3
First Division
New Salamis 4 Anorthosis 1
The big game the top of the table clash in the first division and the Famagusta derby New Salamis v Anorthosis and what a game it was in front of a big crowd at Haringey Borough stadium.
The game started slow with both teams taking time to settle, even so there were chances created either way. But it took a penalty to break the deadlock scored by Kyri Portou who again straight after the break scored again with a penalty. But that did not stop Anorthosis who then went onto score with a tap in from Danny Coolridge.
The red’s seem to up the pace when Richard Georgiou latched onto a pass from the right to score their third and the fourth was a classic when Ahmet Rifat ran deep from his own half to pass to Kyri Portou who then laid the ball off for Harrison Georgiou to score in the final minute with a shot from the edge of the box.
This win put New Salamis at the top of the table level on points with second placed Anorthosis but the red’s have a game in hand.
Omonia 3 Livadia 2
Omonia have climbed into third place after beating Livadia. A much improved Omonia team under Danny Bailey and with more bite with the addition of Andreas Kyprianou who scored two goals the other Omonia goal came from Landry. Livadia’s goals came from Samir and Koutsoudes.
Pantel 0 Olympia 6
Pantel have had it difficult in the first division and it did not help on Sunday losing to Olympia who are beginning to gain momentum under Steve Cinotti their goals coming from Aaron Kennedy 2, Perdicou, Lairdi, Vas and Everan.
Second Division
Asha 4 KLN 3
Top of the second division table Asha had to make it difficult for themselves. Ashas striker Salih was on fire on Sunday scoring all four of Ashas goals.
The game started with Asha on the attack and went ahead within 4 minutes when a mistake by the KLN keeper send the ball at Salih’s feet who reacted quickly and swiftly kicked it in on the far right of the post to make the 1-0.
Asha continued to put pressure on KLN and went 2-0 via a penalty which Giorgio won after big fouled inside the box. Salih stepped up to score with a nicely taken penalty. Asha made it 3-0 just before the first half ended but KLN pulled one back in the dying seconds with a nice headed goal from Chris Papacosta.
Within 5 minutes of restart Salih scored his fourth goal when he came in from the left and smashed it past the on looking keeper.
With nothing to lose KLN pushed forward and made it 4-2 with a fine strike from Yioti on the 75th minute.
On the 80th minute mark it was 4-3 with a goal from Rio and Asha lost their balance.
and in the dying seconds KLN had the ball in the Asha net only to be ruled offside.
Achna 2 Brotherhood 1
Second in the table Achna are really going for promotion they are looking solid all round. And had a good win over much improved Brotherhood.
Achna’s goals came from Ashley Campbell and Justin Zacharia and Brotherhood’s goal came from Kaan Yucel.