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Free kick for Cyprus, like an advanced corner. Charalambides takes it, plays it low for Makris, bad shot though and it's way over the net.

Good ball to Mytidis! Oh he's called offsides as Hennessey makes the save anyway.

Bale wide open, Laifis with a tackle to save the day, Welsh corner cleared by the Cypriot defense

Robson-Kanu shoves Junior to the ground, no card.

Nice run by Mytidis, looking in front, oh but the pass is deflected away by Williams.

He takes it, SAVE GIORGALLIDIS! Rebound comes to Taylor, GIORGALLIDIS GOT THAT ONE TOO!

Welsh free kick, Bale standing over the ball

Good Welsh rush, Williams leaves it for Ramsey, Ramsey shoots! JUST WIDE! Nice curling shot, fortunately it was JUST off the mark

Mytidis earns a corner. Charalambides takes it, Junior was open, swing and a miss and the Welsh clear.

Bigger crowd than usual, and it's not all because the Welsh are in town

GAME ON!

Cyprus in blue, Wales in red.

Never thought I'd see the day that Cyprus had a better chance

WALES 1 Hennessey(GK) 2 Gunter 3 Taylor 4 Richards 6 Williams(Captain) 18 Davies 7 Edwards 8 King 10 Ramsey 11 Bale 9 Robson-Kanu BENCH 21 Ward(GK) 12 Williams(GK) 5 Fox 19 Collins 22 Williams 23 Henley 13 MacDonald 16 Ledley 20 Lawrence 14 Church 15 Vokes 17 Cotterill Manager: Chris Coleman(WAL)

CYPRUS 1 Giorgallidis(GK) 2 Junior 4 Demetriou 15 Antoniadis 19 Laifis 7 Economides 10 Charalambides(Captain) 13 Makridis 23 Nikolaou 9 Mytidis 21 Makris BENCH 22 Panagi(GK) 12 Negri(GK) 3 Charalambous 5 Sielis 6 Charalambous 14 Englezou 16 Stylianou 18 Artymatas 20 Kastanos 8 Sotiriou 17 Kolokoudias Manager: Pambos Christodoulou(CYP)

Standings after Week 2 APOEL-6 AEK Larnaca-6 Anorthosis-6 Enosis Neon Paralimni-4 Ethnikos Axnas-4 Apollonas-4 Omonoia-3 AEL Limassol-3 Aris Limassol-1 Doxa Katokopias-1 Ermis Aradippou-1 Ayia Napa FC-0 Nea Salamina-0 Paphos FC-0 Week 2 results Ethnikos Axnas 1-0 Omonoia Doxa Katokopias 0-3 AEK Larnaca Aris Limassol 1-1 Ermis Aradippou Nea Salamina 1-3 Anorthosis AEL Limassol 1-0 Ayia Napa FC Enosis Neon Paralimni 0-0 Apollonas APOEL 6-2 Paphos FC

It makes the most sense. Karaiskaki is one of the nicest stadiums in the country, it's in Piraeus, driving distance for everyone in Attiki and even other areas, but not too big like OAKA. They should do more friendlies in other cities though,

Pambos Christodoulou has called up the following players: GOALKEEPERS: Antonis Giorgallidis, Kostas Panagi, Alexandre Negri DEFENDERS: Ilias Charalambous, Jason Demetriou, Dosa Junior, Valentinos Sielis, Angelis Charalambous, Marios Antoniadis, Konstantinos Laifis, Marios Stylianou MIDFIELDERS: Kostas Charalambides, Kostas Makridis, Marios Nikolaou, Nektarios Alexandrou, Vincent Laban, Kostas Artymatas, Giorgos Economides, Grigoris Kastanos, Nikos Englezou FORWARDS: Nestoras Mytidis, Pieros Sotiriou, Andreas Makris, Giorgos Kolokoudias

It's in the title. :gr:

New team formed by a merger of AEP Paphos and AEK Kouklia. They play at the Pafiako like AEP Paphos did.

Standings after Week 1 APOEL-3 Omonoia-3 AEK Larnaca-3 Anorthosis-3 Enosis Neon Paralimni-3 Apollonas-3 Doxa Katokopias-1 Ethnikos Axnas-1 Aris Limassol-0 Nea Salamina-0 AEL Limassol-0 Ayia Napa FC-0 Paphos FC-0 Ermis Aradippou-0 Week 1 results Omonoia 5-3 Nea Salamina Paphos FC 0-2 AEK Larnaca Ermis Aradippou 1-5 APOEL Apollonas 2-1 Aris Limassol Ethnikos Axnas 2-2 Doxa Katokopias Anorthosis 2-0 AEL Limassol Ayia Napa FC 0-2 Enosis Neon Paralimni

Markarian came close. The only way to top Ranieri would be to lose to like, San Marino

Arguing about who won the argument on a forum? Never thought I'd see that again. I too have coached in the past, and I too am a hockey guy. I agree that Ninis was not the root cause of the goal, but I also agree that we looked better once he was subbed out. We need creativity for the ethniki. The games we've lost this campaign haven't necessarily been a result of us being outplayed. We just try the same thing over and over again, to the point that we don't even threaten the opposing keeper. It's like hockey, a predictable team will get stopped. We're predictable.

Might as well keep him for the rest of the lame duck campaign. He can pull double duty with the U21 for a couple months.

We really should have beat them in Helsinki, too. Should have done a lot of things this campaign, like still be in the hunt.