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09-01-2006 Super League Round: 15

Apollon Kalamaria

2 - 2

PAOK Thessaloniki

After being down 2-0 at half time PAOK manage to draw 2-2 against Apollon Kalamaria in what can be described as 2 points dropped.
PAOK got off to the worse possible start as early as the 5th minute of the match when Kalamaria took the lead when Haris Papas dribbled passed Haralambous and a cross from the right was put into his own net by Theodoros Zagorakis. In the 14th minute PAOK escaped the 2nd goal when Haris Pappas forced the error on the PAOK defence and with one on one with the keeper he delayed his shot and pressure from Karupidis forced his shot to sail over the crossbar. PAOK's First real scoring chance came in the 24th minute when Miecel tried to score with a scissors kick but his shot fell to Salpiggidis who with the keeper to beat his shot parried away for a corner by Kalamarias keeper Kovac. PAOK's night was getting worse and in the 40th minute Kalamarias scored a 2nd goal when Haris Papas dribbled passed the PAOK defenders and he placed the ball pass keeper Fernandes to make the half time score of 2-0.
Something had to change for PAOK in the second half for them to get back into the game. Straight from the kick off PAOK created it's first chance when a Haralambous shot from the left hand side was parried away for a corner. In the 51st minute PAOK was fortunate not to go 3-0 down when a tragic mistake by Udeze when his back pass to the keeper was to short and Clayton stole the ball and when pass PAOK's keeper Fernandes but fortunately for PAOK the ball came of the post and straight to the keeper. In the 65th minute PAOK pulled a goal back when the kalamaria defenders failed to clear a Haralambous corner and Yiasemakis scored with a shot on the turn from close range. Two minutes later PAOK amazingly scored the equaliser when a cross from the Miecel found Haralambous who scored with a header. PAOK tried desperatley for the winning goal but it didn't ending up coming and in the end the final result can be described as 2 points dropped for PAOK.

PAOK's COACH GIORGOS KOSTIKOS PRESS CONFERENCE: Based on the chances created I beleive PAOK should have won the game. On the other hand the pace of Haris Pappas caused us problems. I will take responsibilty for the final result. Apart from the goals we conceded we missed alot of goalscoring opportunities. We have convert our chances. As for the new player Arapatzis I'm very pleased from his performance. We had major problems in the centre of our defence. We missed Udeze as he was missing for 19 days.