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Hearts vs. AEK 9/8/2006


The2ndMouse

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It had to happen for Lyberopoulos after all his fine chances!!! This goal is HUGE for AEK!!!!

Nikos goal reminds me of his goal from 2 years back against OFI. He put in a long range shot with seconds remaining to keep AEK's hope of a winning the protathlima alive!!!

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AEK Athens grabbed two goals in the final few minutes to condemn Hearts to a 2-1 defeat at Murrayfield in the UEFA Champions League third round qualifying first leg tie.

Hearts looked on course for a famous victory after Saulius Mikoliunas had given them an unlikely lead just after the hour.

However, they were reduced to ten-men soon after when Bruno Aguiar picked up a second yellow and from that moment on Hearts were always on the back foot.

Hearts had withstood mass pressure throughout the 90 minutes - but they looked as if they would hang on - until the final minute when Pantelis Kapetanos headed home.

That looked to be it, but in injury time the Greeks broke and Christophe Berra was helpless to prevent himself from deflecting a Nikos Liberopoulos past Gordon.

AEK had dominated the opening 45 minutes and almost took an early lead through Liberopoulos but he crashed a header against the bar.

Liberopoulos again came close, before a rare Hearts counter saw Mikoliunas hit a deflected shot, which almost went in but it hit against the outside of Stefano Sorrentino's post.

Hearts were thankful to goalkeeper Craig Gordon as he pulled off a series of great saves to keep the Greeks at bay.

Michal Pospisil almost put through his own net, but he was more than relieved to see his header from Julio Cesar's corner deflect wide off the post.

Into the second half an AEK still looked dangerous, but Hearts were much more competitive and began to get a grasp on the game.

Then, although still very much against the run of play, Hearts worked an opening and took the lead.

Edgaras Jankauskas had been introduced as a substitute just moments earlier but his break was crucial as he centred the ball for Roman Bednar - the Czech's snap-shot deflected off the post but Mikoliunas was there to fire home and send the near 40,000 crowd into raptures.

Hearts coach Valdas Ivanauskas was pleading for calm from the sidelines so the last thing he would have welcomed was the red card that soon followed for Portuguese midfielder Bruno Aguiar.

The former Benfica man can consider himself harshly done by, however, as he was perceived to have kicked the ball away and was handed a second yellow by Danish referee Nicolai Vollquartz - which left Hearts with ten-men for the last 25 minutes.

Predictably AEK pushed on, but Hearts defended brilliantly marshalled by captain Steven Pressley and they looked destined for a famours victory.

However, in the last minute of normal time AEK claimed the equaliser which they did deserve.

It came from the left as Stavros Tziortziopoulos crossed into the box and he found Pantelis Kapetanos whose looping header gave Gordon no chance.

Then just moments later AEK broke again and grabbed the winner with almost the last kick of the match. It came through the ever dangerous Liberopoulos as he struck an effort which was flying well wide, but it deflected off Berra and past Gordon.

Hearts now face a momentous task as they need to go to the Greek capital knowing they need to win and score at least two goals to have any chance of staying in the Champions League.

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OH WOW GUYS!!! I JUST LIVED EURO 2004 ALL OVER AGAIN! AMAZING!!!

Where are the Jambo boys now??? Scottish football better than Greek! <_< :LOL: EVEN THEIR BEST PLAYER WAS GREEK!!!

AEKARA!!!! :nw: BRING THEM ALL ON! MAN UTD, CHELSEA, BARCA, MILAN!!!

ALL GREEK FINAL THIS YEAR!!! :nw: :gr: :nw: :gr: :nw:

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finally a greek team WINS in the last minutes instead of being eliminated....

congratulations AEK, keep it simple in OAKA

ethinikitsi.....AEK beat Hearts not Barcelona....come on Euro 2004???? AEK making it to the CL group stage? come on man......

and AEK arent through yet, remember all it takes is 2 mistakes in OAKA its still possible for Hearts so AEK need to be ready and go at them again.....

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Let's be frank. Aek KICKED Hearts' ASS. I am a pao fan but i have to tip my hat off to AEK. Its been years since i have seen AEK look this good. now lets not get carried away either. Pao looked AMAZING against Wisla in athens last year and they sucked in europe after that. But other than that, this is an unbelievale result for GREECE. we need coefficient points and we look to be gettin on the right track.

AEK and OLYM in the cl. Hopefully pao draws a week opponent and qualifies for the uefa group stage. and after that, any other teams presence in the UEFA would be great. With Olym and Aek most likely to pick up minimum 2 victories at least and hopefully with pao making soem waves in UEFA, looks likegreek football might be getin stronger in the years to come and we can get back to having 3 teams in the CL. portugal looks a bit week this year with benifica hopefully gettin knocked out and with the UEFA teams representing them being just as week as the greek teams maybe we could pick up some steam and catch them. OBVIOUSLY Scotland wont be a threat for us especially if AEK beats Hearts in Athens.

OVERALL, AWESOME!

and one more thing. When it comes to the Greek Superleague, we can hate eachother all we want. But when it comes to europe , lets try to support eachother. Thats how you build a healthy mindset for your fans and develop a good reputation which in turn can help bring higher profile players to greece in the near future.

Also for AEK fans, dont be surprised if this win helps the management attract a big name center foward i.e Aloisi or whomever.

Keep it up kounelakia... oops sorry, in europe u can be called AEKAKIA.

CONGRATS!!!

later skaters

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Aek was clearly better, but as we all know this not all you need in football...

We lost our concentration many times and in one case Hearts scored...

Of course it is the start of the season and we must see this as the FIRST official game our team played...

So the news are good!

I liked AEK today!

We do miss a good shorter striker...

Now its in our hands to pass ... and this will aslo mean better chances to sign players that would want to play in the CL groups...

Fully deserved although I would prefer us to seal it earlier.

Great Result!

Scotland suits us!

We are building a tradition !

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