latomiakos 2 - 3 Taurus (365752979)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 59500 at damari today. Edmond Meerbusch was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Stephan Fürmetz and Florian Steinbach. The derby had been the talk of Aigaio all week and fans of both teams could be seen throughout the stadium. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for latomiakos. The following players took the field: Solari - Kotsiras, Vallejos, Fagerli - Gostkowski, Tsioridis, Katsarolidis, Chlomopoulos, Doxakis - Menegakis, Ðokić.

Taurus had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Bartolucci - Fère, Fazio, Liedling - Zanin, Gibelli, Mezonetas, Fatsoulinos - Hendriksson, Silva, Ishenko.

Taurus took the lead 3 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. K. Ishenko was the scorer. T. Menegakis was first to reach a ball launched long through the center from latomiakos's defence 8 minutes into the game. He managed to keep his cool and beat the goalkeeper to make the score 1 - 1. Making his way up the middle 14 minutes into the match, T. Menegakis almost managed to squeeze a goal past the visitors' keeper, but the alert L. Bartolucci blocked it to keep the score level. Some great play up the middle by latomiakos led to a chance for T. Menegakis to score after 16 minutes, but the shot hit the crossbar. Taurus's R. Liedling got himself booked for a foul. After 36 minutes Taurus's M. Zanin contracted a slight foot injury, but didn't want to leave the game. 39 minutes in, latomiakos's L. Vallejos received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Halftime score was 1 - 1. Neither team was controlling the possession at this point in the match, with the stats showing a 50:50 split.

48 minutes into the game, M. Zanin almost gave the visitors the lead, as he clipped a delicate lob over the keeper, but the ball glanced harmlessly off the crossbar. Down the middle came H. Silva, making a fantastic play that nearly had Taurus take the lead after 68 minutes, but A. Solari preserved the tie. Almost all the way down to the corner flag, Taurus's M. Zanin somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for J. Hendriksson, who struck for 1 - 2. The visitors' J. Hendriksson took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 84 minutes into the match. 1 - 3 for Taurus. After 85 minutes, latomiakos's T. Menegakis swiftly ran past G. Fazio and nutmegged the keeper! 2 - 3. Possession in this half belonged to Taurus, who controlled the ball 51 percent of the time.

V. Chlomopoulos performed admirably for latomiakos. On the other hand, M. Gostkowski's play was disheartening. The most dominating Taurus player was without a doubt H. Silva. K. Ishenko turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 2 - 3.