melis 8 - 0 ioanninon (381352585)

The crowd of 17371 turning up at MELISSIA ARENA today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Milo Roe was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Simon Beckers and Herman Strøm. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for melis. Lineup: Brüderl - Asselman, Haller, Werdt - Simões Conceição, Teaha, Macías, Danas, Sakharnikov - Muurinaho, Gaganiaras.

ioanninon tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Pioukas - Karatzakis, Kiriakou, Zimnis, Sideris - Dalkidis, Chardavelas, Mintiouris, Tsardikos - Xiros, Kiprianos.

The wings were the focus of most of melis's attacks today. T. Muurinaho gave melis the lead as he successfully challenged the guests' central defenders, then slotted the ball into the bottom corner, giving the keeper no chance. 1 - 0 melis's T. Danas struck his penalty well enough to beat the goalkeeper and extend the home team's lead to 2 - 0 after 10 minutes. After this, you could see that the players of melis were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Cheers filled the stadium as E. Gaganiaras broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 3 - 0 to melis. With 37 minutes played, melis put themselves up 4 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to E. Gaganiaras, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. Some things can only be learned through experience, and C. Teaha should take his lesson to heart after nearly gifting ioanninon a goal with 40 minutes of the match played. melis put themselves up 5 - 0 when O. Haller broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. 5 - 0 was the score after the first half. melis had most of the ball, with 85 percent of possession.

A. Macías increased the lead for melis to 6 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave O. Haller from melis a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 71 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! melis managed to extend their lead to 7 - 0 when E. Gaganiaras cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. By then E. Gaganiaras had scored three goals - a hat trick! With 75 minutes played, melis's A. Sakharnikov almost extended the lead, but his shot from the left glanced off the top of the bar to fall behind the net. melis's E. Gaganiaras had an excellent opportunity after 84 minutes, shooting after receiving a pass from the right hand side, but he missed the goal by miles! Things were deteriorating for the away team as melis scored another to make it 8 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for C. Teaha after 87 minutes. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by melis, with 89 percent of the ball.

The most dominating melis player was without a doubt E. Gaganiaras. On the other hand, H. Asselman's play was disheartening. Most important ioanninon player was C. Tsardikos. However, M. Dalkidis made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 8 - 0.