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Spectators: 5000 (Terracing: 4000, Seating: 1000, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Chronis Alatza started the match with the kick off. Melikertes Karkampasis scored 0-1 in the 5th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Thodoris Kezdoglou, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Thodoris Kezdoglou took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Melikertes Karkampasis, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Thodoris Kezdoglou showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Melikertes Karkampasis in the 12th minute of the match. After 13 minutes of play, Sunderland A.F.C.'s Spiros Nikolakakos made it 0-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Thodoris Kezdoglou was left in no man's land by his defense there! A collision led to Hellas Limassol getting a freekick after 18 minutes play. Chronis Alatza hit a great ball. The audience was convinced that Spiros Nikolakakos's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Thodoris Kezdoglou was relentless in the 19th minute of the game. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Chronis Alatza in the 24th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Olivar Kahn saved Sunderland A.F.C. from getting behind. Olivar Kahn took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Chronis Alatza, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Chronis Alatza sent away a hard shot on goal in the 28th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Thodoris Kezdoglou made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Melikertes Karkampasis in the 30th minute of play. When Spiros Nikolakakos came up free with the goalie in the 31st minute, the Sunderland A.F.C. 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 Spiros Nikolakakos couldn't finish the play. In the 33rd minute Spiros Nikolakakos shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Thodoris Kezdoglou saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 35th minute, Oileus Manos ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Thodoris Kezdoglou was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-3. A collision led to Hellas Limassol getting a freekick after 43 minutes play. Christos Iymperopoulou hit a great ball. Thrinakie Lillis took a chance and fired a shot far from the goal in the 44th minute, but it turned out to be a dangerous situation for Thodoris Kezdoglou. Hellas Limassol's goalkeeper really had to stretch himself to stop the ball from crossing the goal line. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-3 lead.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Spiros Nikolakakos to make the kick off. A collision led to Hellas Limassol getting a freekick after 52 minutes play. Christos Iymperopoulou hit a great ball. In the 57th minute Spiros Nikolakakos shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Thodoris Kezdoglou saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 59 minutes had been played when some careless play by Hellas Limassol's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Akestes Touchakis was slow to take the kick. During this time Sunderland A.F.C.'s players had a chance to rest. After some fancy dribbling in the 60th minute, Manolis Leontarakis managed to get in a good position for a shot. Sunderland A.F.C.'s supporters rose to their feet, but Manolis Leontarakis was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Thodoris Kezdoglou breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Sunderland A.F.C.'s attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Akestes Touchakis in the 67th minute. Thanos Tsiaris tried in the game's 67th match minute to clear up in front of his own goal but it went so bad that he put the ball into the goal to the left of an unhappy Thodoris Kezdoglou. An annoying self made goal, 0-4. The crowd rose to their feet as Sunderland A.F.C.'s Zacharias Moisakos slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Thodoris Kezdoglou. That made the score 0-5 after 73 minutes of play. Lykos Bilias received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 84th minute. Olivar Kahn tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Lykos Bilias fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 87th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Olivar Kahn having to interfere. The Sunderland A.F.C. players were relieved to hear the final whistle blow to end the match. The away crowd was happy to see their team win after a very tight game.