First Division
Brotherhood 0 Tripimeni 2: Tripimeni are the only team capable of catching up with New Salamis and are still on their toes in second place hoping the red’s will drop points. Tripimeni had a comfortable win versus Brotherhood with both their goals coming in the second half. First one from Karim in the 50th minute and the second from Ahmet Rifat in the 70th minute.
AEL 1 Dynamo 5: One of the shock results of the day in the fact that Dynamo inflicted such a heavy defeat on AEL. It was 3-1 half time Harry scored the first goal for Dynamo the second a penalty from Kyri and the third from Rico, AEL’s goal came from Errol. The two other goals came from two of the Violaris brothers Alex and Michael the latter’s goal stood out, a great diving header from a cross. This win for Dynamo takes them to third place and AEL drop a place to fourth.
Panthea 2 Rizokarpasso 5: Another turn around for the books is Rizo beating Panthea 5-2. Half time Rizo were winning 2-0 with goals from Tom Boxer and Leon Semper. Straight after the break Panthea got one back through a Mark Doyle free kick. Rizo scored a third goal and second goal for Tom Boxer but Panthea came back with another goal from Mark Doyle who scored from a penalty. Dino the manager of Rizokarpasso then bought on sub Tony Ponnou their coach who with his first touch scored a brilliant goal blasting the ball straight into the corner of the net. George Sitaliotis added a fifth to lift Rizokarpasso into fifth place and drop Panthea into sixth place both on the same points of 13 but Rizo have a better goal difference.
Aradippou 1 Cetinkaya Cinar 2: Cetinkaya Cinar have gone two places up with this win to 7th place and are now on 11 points, Aradippou are firmly placed at the bottom of the table on 8 points. Cetinkaya are a very well organised team and will improve as the season goes on. Aradippou again a tough team to beat have to try and regain their confidence. The game didn’t erupt until the 60th minute when Aradippou took the lead with a goal from Fabian, Cetinkaya equalised within five minutes with a goal from Volkan and then in the 80th minute they scored a winning goal with Talip scoring. Cetinkaya had their goalkeeper sent off in the last minute for a handball.
New Salamis 4 Omonia 0: Omonia started well, In fact the first 20 minutes they had New Salamis reeling but New Salamis overcome that hurdle with a goal from Jeff Hammond in the 35th minute and in the second half in the 55th minute again Jeff Hammond scored with a close range shot. The third goal was a blinding 40 yard shot from Steve Valendia, the fourth came in the 65th minute with a goal from a free kick a second from Steve Valendia which resulted in a sending off of an Omonia player with a second yellow card. New Salamis are nine points clear at the top of the table, while Omonia are third from bottom with eleven points.
Second Division
Achna 3 Pantel 2: This was the biggest shock of the day Achna getting their second win of the season against a much recently improved Pantel who were very poor on Sunday. Maybe because they took the lead as early as the first minute with Gadaffi they thought they were in for an easy game, but it did not take Achna long to equalise with a goal from Stylianou. It was great end to end football Pantel scored after a mix up in the penalty area and Gadaffi was on hand to score again. Achna kept on battling and were able to equalise when Alex Kyriacou popped up scoring with a cracking header straight into the goal from a corner. It was not going to end there with ten minutes to go Greg Christoforou missed a good one to one chance to score with only the Pantel keeper to beat. A minute later from an identical situation he made amends and scored, that turned out to be the winning goal. Achna remain second from bottom with six points and Pantel fourth with seventeen points.
Maronites 1 Apoel 3: Although the score suggests a comfortable win for Apoel it wasn’t, Maronites were always a danger up front with Adam Ali their key man. The first 20 minutes they had chances galore Elia Aganthangelou missed a couple of chances . Adam Ali went past three players before shooting to make Pantel’s keeper Kalli pull off a great save. So it wasn’t long before Maronite’s got a goal which was scored by Elias Aganthangelou. Mark Sophocleous equalised for Apoel with a great long range shot which went in off the bar. Apoel then went onto score another two goals with Eden and Jason Mason. This leaves Apoel in second place on 24 points with two games in hand over leaders Olympia who have 27 points.
Arachne 3 KLN 1: Arachne gave a convincing performance versus KLN they were one nil up within 15 minutes with a goal from Damien Spyrou who also scored a second just before half time. KLN came back in the game with a goal from Jesse. They are now playing good football but without a goalkeeper KLN are finding it tough. Lorenzo Toumazos sealed the game for Arachne in the last five minutes.
Olympia 4 Anorthosis 3: This was the match of the day great all action, Olympia started the ball rolling with a goal from Antonis Pratsides, Anorthosis equalised with Keiron Donaldson. Straight after the break Olympia took the lead again with a goal from Keren Pascal , Anorthosis would not give up and came back with an own goal and with seven minutes to go they scored and took the lead with a goal from George Kailo making it 3-2. It then went crazy and Olympia got two penalties one was scored by Vince Rispoli the other by Keren Pascal. This win keeps Olympia top on 27 points and Anorthosis fifth with 16 points.
Pendayia 0 Komi Kebir 0: A draw was arguably a fair result for both sides. Pendayia started the game the better of the two teams playing the ball around nicely and forcing Komi to play quick, long football. However the quality of football from both teams dipped as the half went on and neither team had many chances with the only highlight of the half coming when a long range effort from Komi was superbly pushed wide by the Pendayia goalkeeper. The second half was similar to the first with both teams playing good football but being unable to find an end product. With 10 minutes to go in the game Komi were reduced to 10 men and Pendayia pushed on for the win but were unable to get the breakthrough.
