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Yeoryitsa Stadium
Spectators: 5000 (Terracing: 4000, Seating: 1000, VIP seats: 0) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Christos Sklavounos made the kick off which started today's match. Vrasidas Liapakis received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Iordanis Katsavos came out and tried to block the shot, but Vrasidas Liapakis slotted it home off the left post making it 1-0 in the 6th minute. In the 10th match minute, The Athenians was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Vassilis Romanakos to maneuver through the defense. Vlassis Bosinakos fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 12th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Tilemachos Vourkos having to interfere. The Athenians's Tilemachos Vourkos played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Vlassis Bosinakos in the 14th minute of play. Tilemachos Vourkos showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Christos Sklavounos in the 16th minute of the match. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Lazaros Domazos in the 17th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Tilemachos Vourkos saved The Athenians from getting behind. Takis Rafailidis lost his temper 21 minutes into the game and shoved another player to the ground. He was immediately shown a red card. In the 22nd minute there was a penalty for BEBIDES FC. Aimilios Maratopoulos stepped forward and shot the ball to the right of a diving Tilemachos Vourkos. 1-1. Vrasidas Liapakis spun around in front of the goal 27 minutes in the game, and got away a shot that, to his disappointment, went to the left of BEBIDES FC's goal. In the 32nd match minute, The Athenians was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Ilias Sapounopoulos to maneuver through the defense. In the 34th minute, Vrasidas Liapakis 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. A collision led to The Athenians getting a freekick after 37 minutes play. Markos Papanastasis hit a great ball. Eleftherios Michailidis came free in the 39th minute and tried to tip the ball over Iordanis Katsavos, but to the joy of BEBIDES FC's supporters the ball went over. If Filippos Pagouras had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 44th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Tilemachos Vourkos took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Christos Sklavounos, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. After fighting hard for a draw in the first half, the players were able to take a much needed rest.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Vrasidas Liapakis made a kick off. Christos Sklavounos sent away a hard shot on goal in the 52nd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. 54 minutes into the match, The Athenians's goalkeeper Tilemachos Vourkos had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Vlassis Bosinakos. Tilemachos Vourkos made an important save on a dangerous shot by Vlassis Bosinakos in the 57th minute. Tilemachos Vourkos showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Christos Sklavounos in the 58th minute of the match. In the 64th minute, Vlassis Bosinakos hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Tilemachos Vourkos took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Christos Sklavounos, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Iordanis Katsavos took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Markos Nikolatos, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Vrasidas Liapakis recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 78th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. An unexpectedly hard shot by Ilias Sapounopoulos in the 82nd minute of play forced BEBIDES FC's goalkeeper Iordanis Katsavos to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Tilemachos Vourkos showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Christos Sklavounos, who was totally free with the ball in the 85th minute. 94 minutes into the match, Vrasidas Liapakis had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Iordanis Katsavos. BEBIDES FC's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Vrasidas Liapakis was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 3-1. The Athenians's fans were exulted and cheered after their team won in a match that could easily have gone the other way.