The APOEL Courier
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, APOEL do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at APOEL
Marquinhos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Konstantinos Giannakou is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Peter Olayinka falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A late step up for Diego Rosa
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Dálcio at his very best
Marked 8.69. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at APOEL.
Match10 Oct 2026
Peter Olayinka the difference as APOEL beat Ermis
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Peter Olayinka. 1‑0 against Ermis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Max Meyer
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Peter Olayinka was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Diego Rosa
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Daniel Mancini
- Market Dimitris Diamantakos linked with a move away