Challenge Cup
First round
St Panteleimon 0 Omonia 7
Billed as the match of the day current leaders of the first Division Omonia v leaders of the second division St Panteleimon.
It took twenty minutes for Omonia to break the ice with a penalty goal from Yiannis. Vas and Adem Ali added another two goals for the Greens. Then Bradley Stylianou tapped the ball into the back of the net from a corner, going into the break Omonia 4-0 up.
The Greens continued their goal scoring form into the second half when Adem Ali ran onto a quickly taken free kick to score, he then added another to give him a hat trick whilst Yianni scored his second and Omonia’s 7th with a thunderous shot.
In the last twenty minutes St Panteleimon tried to reduce the score line and did have numerous chances but with no avail.
Pantel 1 Brotherhood 4
Another second division team versus first division team in the cup and again the first division team Brotherhood came out on top this time. But Pantel did give them a fright when they got it to 1-1 with a 40 yard blaster from Yianni, but then Brotherhood went onto score another three goals to come out 4-1 winners.
Brotherhood’s hero was Mark Doyle scoring a hat trick with their other goal coming from Dodi Behiri
KLN 5 Anorthosis 5 FT 5-5 AET Anorthosis won on penalties
What an amazing game it was 3-0 down half time with Anorthosis goals coming from Danny Coolridge 2 and Alex Roussis . Then Panny Erotokritou scored for KLN to make it 3-1, Mike Philippou reduced the score to 3-2 Anorthosis scored a penalty with Charlie to make it 4-2.
Rio made it 4-3 then he scored again and equalised in the last minute to make it 4-4. Game went to extra time Anorthosis scored very early in the first half to make it 5-4 with a goal from Charlie then with 10 minutes to go in the second half of extra time Demetri Anastasiou made it 5-5.
Extra time finished finished 5-5 and Anorthosis won on penalties
First Division
Tripimeni-Olympia 8 Cetinkaya Cinar 1
Cetinkaya Cinar who recently had a resurgence of form just could not contain Tripimeni-Olympia who have now leapt to second place as a result of this win.
Tripimeni-Olympia were 3-0 up before Cetinkaya Cinar scored from a free kick when Omer Cimdiken banged the ball into the back of the net
A fantastic performance to end 2015 by Steve Cinotti’s team three goals coming from young George Yianni 2 goals from David Lairdi 1 from John Nicholas 1 from Evran and 1 from Lucas Kyriacou completed Tripimeni-Olympia’s scoring.
Second division
Komi Kebir 1 -1 Arachne
In the only game in Division 2 Komi and Arachne played out a hard fought draw.
Komi started the game well and created a number of chances but poor finishing and great goalkeeping by the Arache custodian Aidan Lynch kept the scores level.
Komi final got their reward in the 16th with a fine move down the right. A cross by Geroge Syrtadiots found Jason Lambri who’s shot finally beat Lynch in the Arachne goal.
Arachne got back into the game just before half time when they were awarded a free kick just near the corner flag. The ball was floated in by Andrew Panayi and it bypassed everyone and settled in the far corner of the net.
The second half took the same pattern of the first with Komi missing a hatful of chances again due to poor finishing or great keeping by Lynch.
The game turned ugly halfway through the second half when a mass brawl resulted in Lorenzo Toumazos being given his marching orders.
Credit must be given to the referee N. Neofitou who calmed the situation down and got the game back on track.
The game ended in a draw but Komi will be the more disappointed knowing if they had put their chance away against a resilient Arachne would have got the 3 points in what is now turning into a very interesting fight for promotion.
