National stadium
Spectators: 10302 (Terracing: 7727,
Seating: 2369, VIP seats: 206) The field was rather wet after several days of rain when Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos took the kick off in the first half of the match. In the 8th match minute, Cyprus was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Oileus Poulakis to maneuver through the defense. Johnny Cash made an important save on a dangerous shot by Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos in the 10th minute. Kyriakos Adamou showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Ronaldinho Gaucho in the 13th minute of the match. Johnny Cash showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos in the 16th minute of the match. 17 minutes into the match, Cyprus's goal looked a bit too open when Dan Richard came free, but Kyriakos Adamou reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos in the 19thth minute had a little luck and got a chance for a shot in front of the goal. Without hesitation aimed to the right of Johnny Cash, who managed to lunge to the right direction and made a save. Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos had several of the USA's defenders around him in the penalty area when he, after 19 minutes of play, received a pass and succeeded in some way to shoot a shot which went straight ahead into goal. This resulted in a 1-0 score and a disappointed Johnny Cash as he didn't even see the shot coming. Kyriakos Adamou showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Damian Herndon, who was totally free with the ball in the 23rd minute. USA's attack was well implemented in the 23rd minute, but when Damian Herndon was about to shoot he didn't get a good hit on the ball and it hit the crossbar and flew over. Goal Kick. When Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos came up free with the goalie in the 27th minute, the Cyprus fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos couldn't finish the play. Kyriakos Adamou made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Ronaldinho Gaucho in the 30th minute of play. Johnny Cash stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos's shot from short distance in the 33rd minute. The audience was convinced that Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Johnny Cash was relentless in the 33rd minute of the game. Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos didn't miss a given chance and shot in short distance 2-0 via right post in the game's 33rd minute. Cyprus's supporters showed their exhuberating excitement! The crowd rose to their feet as Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Johnny Cash. That made the score 3-0 in the 36 minute of play. Cyprus's attentive Orthros Touchakis managed to snatch the ball when Dennis Overton made a throw-in in the 45th minute of the game.
Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Armen Simonyan to make the kick off. Johnny Cash showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Nontas Doukatelis in the 52nd minute of the match. When the match had gone on for 56 minutes, Henrik Sarkisyan took a quick shot and it went in 3-1 without a chance for Kyriakos Adamou to make any attempt to save it. Kyriakos Adamou made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Armen Simonyan in the 60th minute of play. In the 62nd minute of the match, J.C. Faulk tried to roll the ball into the goal by the right post, but Kyriakos Adamou saw his intentions and got control of the ball before it passed the line. 63 minutes in the game, J.C. Faulk dribbled his way through the penalty area and after maneuvering past an opponent, drilled a quick shot at the goal. The ball looked like it was going in, but it was hit a bit too hard and flew over the goal. The audience was convinced that Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Johnny Cash was relentless in the 65th minute of the game. After having played for 68 minutes, Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Cyprus's supporters crossed their fingers, but Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos took the ball and in the 70 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 4-1. Damian Herndon did some fancy footwork in front of goal and succeeded to deceive the defenders so he could slam the ball in 4-2 to the left of a surprised Kyriakos Adamou 74 minutes into the match. Cyprus made a substitution. Vaios Trampakoulos replaced Kokis Achaparos. USA's Johnny Cash played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos in the 79th minute of play. Cyprus's Oileus Poulakis quite brazenly broke a throw-in by Dennis Overton, made in the 81st minute of the game. Johnny Cash showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos in the 83rd minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by J.C. Faulk in the 85th minute of play forced Cyprus's goalkeeper Kyriakos Adamou to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos sent away a hard shot on goal in the 88th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. In the 88th minute Aigisthos Paraskevopoulos shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Johnny Cash saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Cyprus's Kyriakos Adamou proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 89th minute of the match, managed to save Cyprus from getting a goal against them. In the 92nd minute, Vaios Trampakoulos made a precise shot to the right of Johnny Cash. USA's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 5-2. The crowd rose to their feet and cheered when the referee blew the final whistle. Cyprus had won after a very even match.
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