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Xoϊdha Stadium
Spectators: 7713 (Terracing: 5786, Seating: 1774, VIP seats: 153) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Stratos Macheritsas made the kick off which started today's match. Petros Bantas sent away a hard shot on goal in the 4th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Panagiotis Giannou fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 7th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Nikitas Zervoulakis having to interfere. Petros Bantas fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 10th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Christos Mourouzis having to interfere. In the 18th minute, Stratos Macheritsas left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Melissia fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-1. 22 minutes into the game, one of Xoϊdha:s players got tackled near the goal, and the referee blew for a penalty. An unexpectedly hard shot by Antonis Velas in the 27th minute of play forced Melissia's goalkeeper Nikitas Zervoulakis to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Panagiotis Giannou received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 29th minute. Nikitas Zervoulakis tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Panagiotis Giannou's shot straight on target was not completely harmless. The ball had pretty good speed, but Nikitas Zervoulakis firmly grabbed it by the left post. In the 37th minute Stratos Macheritsas shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Christos Mourouzis saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Christos Mourouzis showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Petros Bantas in the 39th minute of the match. Christos Mourouzis came out of the goal in the 41st minute to try and stop a shot by Melissia's Stratos Macheritsas. But to his dismay, Stratos Macheritsas quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 0-3. After having played for 48 minutes, Antonis Velas managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Xoϊdha's supporters crossed their fingers, but Antonis Velas was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-3.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Antonis Velas was the one to do the kick off. Petros Bantas fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 53rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Christos Mourouzis having to interfere. Nikitas Zervoulakis came out of the goal in the 60th minute to try and stop a shot by Xoϊdha's Panagiotis Giannou. But to his dismay, Panagiotis Giannou quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 1-3. A collision led to Xoϊdha getting a freekick after 63 minutes play. Theocharis Dalianas hit a great ball. Stratos Macheritsas might have been able to make a better finish in the 64th minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Christos Mourouzis. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Stratos Macheritsas ran back to his position shaking his head. Petros Bantas sent away a hard shot on goal in the 65th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Petros Bantas's shot straight on target was not completely harmless. The ball had pretty good speed, but Christos Mourouzis firmly grabbed it by the left post. Xoϊdha's Christos Mourouzis played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Stratos Macheritsas in the 68th minute of play. Panagiotis Giannou sent away a hard shot on goal in the 72nd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. In the 76th minute, Antonis Velas ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Nikitas Zervoulakis was frozen by the shot and now it was 2-3. In the 79th minute of the match Theocharis Dalianas shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Nikitas Zervoulakis showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. If Petros Bantas had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 83rd minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Stratos Macheritsas sent away a hard shot on goal in the 85th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. In the 90th minute of the match Thymios Bozidis shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Nikitas Zervoulakis showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. Petros Bantas received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 92nd minute. Christos Mourouzis tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Panagiotis Giannou received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 96th minute. Nikitas Zervoulakis tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere.