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Kiσnia
Spectators: 7607 (Terracing: 5707, Seating: 1750, VIP seats: 150) Nasos Chrisopoulos hit a great freekick 4 minutes into the match. In the 7th minute Panagiotis Rafailidis shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Manos Veritsis saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Nasos Chrisopoulos hit a great freekick 8 minutes into the match. After 10 played minutes Dark.A. FC got a freekick which was hit by Veniamin Vidalis. Nikolas Tachtatzis received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 15th minute. Manos Veritsis tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. 17 minutes into the match, Dark.A. FC's Panagiotis Rafailidis sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Manos Veritsis narrowly saved just below the crossbar. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Konstantinos Tatsos in the 18th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Manos Veritsis saved Kiσnia from getting behind. After a rather tough play, Kiσnia's Apostolos Kidonakis got a free kick in the 18th minute. When Aggelos Kazoleas came up free with the goalie in the 23rd minute, the Dark.A. FC 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 Aggelos Kazoleas couldn't finish the play. Nasos Chrisopoulos hit a great freekick 24 minutes into the match. In the 26th minute, Nikolas Tachtatzis ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Manos Veritsis was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-2. 29 minutes into the match, Dark.A. FC's goalkeeper Thrasivoulos Kostenoglou had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Stamatis Zarzopoulos. Manos Veritsis took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Konstantinos Tatsos, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the 35th minute, Petros Peridis got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. After some fancy dribbling in the 38th minute, Panagiotis Rafailidis managed to get in a good position for a shot. Dark.A. FC's supporters rose to their feet, but Panagiotis Rafailidis was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Manos Veritsis breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. 40 minutes into the match, Kiσnia's goal looked a bit too open when Konstantinos Tatsos came free, but Manos Veritsis reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Manos Veritsis stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Nikolas Tachtatzis's shot from short distance in the 41st minute. When Apostolos Kidonakis fell near the penalty area in the 42nd minute he thought he would be awarded a free kick. The referee ignored Kiσnia's protests and gave Apostolos Kidonakis a yellow card for diving instead. In the 42nd minute, Apostolos Kidonakis hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Dark.A. FC were awarded a corner in the 45th minute after Kiσnia's defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. Leonidas Variamidis took the corner. Dark.A. FC's Leonidas Variamidis was first on the ball when the corner was shot and he dangerously headed the ball towards goal, but Manos Veritsis in the goal jumped up to prevent it from getting in. Panagiotis Rafailidis struck a weak shot in the 46th minute. Manos Veritsis didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Dark.A. FC. 48 minutes into the match, Dark.A. FC's Nikolas Tachtatzis sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Manos Veritsis narrowly saved just below the crossbar. After the first half Dark.A. FC were leading 0-2. They had played with great self confidence throughout the first half and fully deserved their lead.

Stratos Barbetakis sent away a hard shot on goal in the 53rd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Nikolas Tachtatzis struck a weak shot in the 56th minute. Manos Veritsis didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Dark.A. FC. Manos Veritsis took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Konstantinos Tatsos, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Nikolas Tachtatzis struck a weak shot in the 59th minute. Manos Veritsis didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Dark.A. FC. After a rather tough play, Dark.A. FC's Stratos Barbetakis got a free kick in the 61st minute. After 62 played minutes, Kiσnia's Anthimos Nioplias shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Thrasivoulos Kostenoglou came through and got his fingers on the ball before it flew over the goal line. He then quickly gripped the ball tighter before the forwards in Kiσnia reached it. Manos Veritsis didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Panagiotis Rafailidis went, in the 63rd minute, to the upper right corner, 0-3 was the resulting score. Panagiotis Rafailidis sent away a hard shot on goal in the 69th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Kiσnia's defense didn't have a chance, in the 72nd minute, when Konstantinos Tatsos scored to the left of an out of position Manos Veritsis, making the score, 0-4. Manos Veritsis didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Nikolas Tachtatzis went, in the 75th minute, to the upper right corner, 0-5 was the resulting score. After 82 minutes of play, Dark.A. FC's Panagiotis Rafailidis made it 0-6 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Manos Veritsis was left in no man's land by his defense there! Panos Katidis hit a great freekick 85 minutes into the match. Nikolas Tachtatzis recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 87th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. Kiσnia's Manos Veritsis played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Konstantinos Tatsos in the 88th minute of play. In the 90th minute of the match Dark.A. FC got a corner. Kiσnia's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Leonidas Variamidis ran over to the corner to take the kick. A nice corner shot did that Leonidas Variamidis got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Manos Veritsis quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. Nikolas Tachtatzis fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 93rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Manos Veritsis having to interfere. If Panagiotis Rafailidis had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 96th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Dark.A. FC played a much better game than Kiσnia and deserved their victory. The Kiσnia players were clearly disappointed as they left the ground.