Sunday 25th November 2018
KOPA League
First Division
Goals galore at Market Road where Anothosis beat Olympia 4-3 that was to many great games in the past, for the the first 15 minutes Olympia really attacked the Anorthosis rear guard and wasted a couple of good chances and were punished when Anorthosis on the break caught Olympias defence on the hop and Adem Ali was there to sprint through to score and it was not long before Olympia equalised with a toe punt straight in from Lawrence Constanti.
Anorthosis retook the lead when Adem Ali curled in a shot from the edge of the box to give them a 2-1 lead but quickly again Olympia equalised with an Elia headed goal from a Furlonge cross.
Third goal came from a great run from Paul Yiannakas. Olympia’s 3rd goal a great individual run by Ricky Loucas and a class finish. Then there was a real climax when a penalty was awarded to Anorthosis but Paul Yiannaks hit the post but an absolute screamer of a goal in the last minute of added time from Adem Ali gave Anorthosis a vital win.
Another 3 points for Omonia beating Asha 6-0 Omonia dominated the game from start to finish took the lead on 5 minutes good work from Savvas Petrou on the left set up Andreas Kyprianou to finish as he normally does. On 11 minutes another familiar goalscorer this season Luke Prokopiou made it 2-0 ,
At this point all credit to Asha they stuck to their task and competed and it took Omonia until 35th minute when Dan Pugh.s 25 yard left footed rocket hit the top left hand corner as he cut in from the right .
On the 40th minute a glorious right footed free kick from the left side 22 yards out was expertly despatched by Andreas Kyprianou to make it 4-0.
The second period provided much of the same but it took Omonia until 60th minute when Andreas Kyprianou finished expertly at the near post to complete his hat trick.
On 85 minutes Christian Artimadis opened his scoring account for Omonia London to make it 6-0.
In the other first division game Komi Kebir beat Achna 3-1 to maintain their middle of the table position their goals coming from George Oustapasidis 2 and George Demosthenous but Achna quicly responded at 3-0 with a goal from Eser Mustu but it wasnt enough.
Second Division
Second division leaders KLN took a knock back when they lost to Akanthou 4-1, they had already beaten Akanthou twice this season but this this time Akanthou’s turn who took a 1-0 lead into half time break and KLN equalised with Salim Ozcan but Akanthou scored soon after then another two goals towards the end gave them a 4-1 win.
In a second division classic match that ended 3-2 to the Armenians who went 3-0 up with goals from Arek Djerrahian, Garo Heath and Flo Savvas. Brotherhood pulled two goals back with a penalty and a free kick scored by Adem Esen and Poku Domfeh and pressed hard for the equaliser but Armenians defended well and held on for the win.
The return fixture and everyone was interested to see if Pao could repeat the score line from the previous week or was it a one off this time they came out 9-3 winners.
Both teams started the game with a good tempo but Pao took early control with 5 minutes in Dylan Loblack broke through and slotted past the on coming keeper. 1-0
Pao had plenty of chances to score more but Cinar kept their heads and pulled back an equaliser. 1-1 through Alex Phylactides.
Cinar took control of the middle and took the game to Pao but a quick break allowed Nicholas Michael score Paos second 2-1. Soon after kick off Nicholas crossed from the right finding Dylan at the back post to tap it home 3-1
Ht 3-1. The second half continued as the first finished with Pao taking full control and playing some excellent football and extending their lead with Dylan scoring his third and Paos 4th. 4-1.
Cinar immediately hit back 4-2 again with Alex Phylacktides.
It wasn’t long before Andy Evangelou popped up with 2 goals taking the game completely away from Cinar 6-2. Ricky Sarno with the 7th, Errol Halil with the 8th and Girgiou Charalou with the 9th
Cinar scored one more to make the final score 9-3.
The game was played in very Good spirit, excellent for the neutral spectators with lots of goals.
