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Spectators: 7777 (Terracing: 5833, Seating: 1789, VIP seats: 155) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Achilleas Pirovolidis made the kick off which started today's match. Kleon Semeloglou received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 4th minute. Christoforos Dimitroulis tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. A collision led to ΧΑΤΖΗΚΥΡΙΑΚΕΙΟ PIRAEUS getting a freekick after 5 minutes play. Thodoris Toboulidis hit a great ball. Vrasidas Leptokaridis made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Achilleas Pirovolidis in the 8th minute of play. After 16 minutes, Anastasios Giotoulis mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the ΧΑΤΖΗΚΥΡΙΑΚΕΙΟ PIRAEUS and the Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 16th minute, Anastasios Giotoulis hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Kleon Semeloglou's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but Christoforos Dimitroulis read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 28th minute of play. Vrasidas Leptokaridis showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Achilleas Pirovolidis in the 32nd minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Giorgos Kostoulis in the 33rd minute of play forced Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς's goalkeeper Vrasidas Leptokaridis to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 34thth minute of the game Achilleas Pirovolidis who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς's Vrasidas Leptokaridis was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. After having played for 40 minutes, Kleon Semeloglou managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς's supporters crossed their fingers, but Kleon Semeloglou was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Vrasidas Leptokaridis didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Giorgos Kostoulis went, in the 43rd minute, to the upper right corner, 0-1 was the resulting score. The supporters of Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς booed when ΧΑΤΖΗΚΥΡΙΑΚΕΙΟ PIRAEUS was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 47 match minutes in a wonderful position. Thodoris Toboulidis didn't get a good kick on the ball. After 48 played minutes Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς got a freekick which was hit by Kleon Semeloglou. Even after changing tactics the home team jogged off the field with a 0-1 deficit. They would have to work harder if they wanted to turn things around in the second half.

Giorgos Kostoulis received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 53rd minute. Vrasidas Leptokaridis tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Fotis Anastasakos sent away a hard shot on goal in the 61st minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. 63 minutes into the match, Fotis Anastasakos had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Christoforos Dimitroulis. ΧΑΤΖΗΚΥΡΙΑΚΕΙΟ PIRAEUS's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Fotis Anastasakos was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 1-1. In the 72nd minute Fotis Anastasakos shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Christoforos Dimitroulis saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Achilleas Pirovolidis received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 79th minute. Vrasidas Leptokaridis tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Kleon Semeloglou's late challenge caught a ΧΑΤΖΗΚΥΡΙΑΚΕΙΟ PIRAEUS's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Kleon Semeloglou helped the player get up and apologised. Kleon Semeloglou hit a great freekick 83 minutes into the match. In the 87th match minute, Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Fotis Anastasakos to maneuver through the defense. After a rather tough play, ΧΑΤΖΗΚΥΡΙΑΚΕΙΟ PIRAEUS's Alketas Chronidis got a free kick in the 93rd minute. 95 minutes into the game, Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς's Fotis Anastasakos nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Christoforos Dimitroulis made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 2-1. The crowd rose to their feet and cheered when the referee blew the final whistle. Ολυμπιακός Πειραιώς had won after a very even match.