The APOEL Courier
Squad1 Oct 2035
João Simões: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” APOEL have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Oct 2035
Fatih Tultak breaks a bone — 31 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings1 Oct 2035
Bojan Radulović scores twice — 8.83
Two goals and a mark of 8.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad1 Oct 2035
Dmytro Matsapura keeps APOEL in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings1 Oct 2035
Age has not caught Giorgi Guliashvili yet — 9.27
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.27 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad1 Oct 2035
Marquinhos in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at APOEL this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Sep 2035
APOEL see off Pafos
Three points for APOEL, 5‑3 the final word against Pafos in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match29 Sep 2035
Nobody could stop scoring
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about APOEL and Pafos in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings1 Oct 2035
Ninety minutes of Rodion Pechura at his very best
Marked 9.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at APOEL.
In brief
- Match Nobody wins at APOEL
- Player ratings Panagiotis Kattirtzis in the eights
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Oskar Haugstrup