Shikabala Grants PAOK Important Win

Shikabala Grants PAOK Important Win

Date: 26-3-2006
Wrote: EP's webmaster

Shikabala came on in the 2nd half in PAOK's home clash with Kallithea and helped his side to emerge victorious in the game as he won a penalty kick in the 81st minute from which Salgipidis scored the winning goal.

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Shikabala didn't participate in last week's match because of injury. This weekend, the Egyptian played the 2nd half of the home game versus Kallithea and won the game for PAOK thanks to his talents and vision.

The game versus Kallithea took plaice behind closed doors and PAOK faced a difficult situation as they got behind by a goal in the 54th minute through Koutsospyros who took advantage from a combined error from PAOK's goalkeeper and defense as he stole the ball from the goalkeeper Fernandes and scored.

In the 72nd minute, the referee decided to send Karatzas of Kallithea off and the guests resumed the game with ten men on the field.

A minute later, PAOK won a corner kick from the left wing, Shikabala swung it to the near post to Mieciel but the latter was brought down in the area by a Kallithea defender. As a result, the referee awarded PAOK a penalty kick from which Salgipidis scored the equalizer.

In the 81st minute, Shikabala won the game for PAOK when he got the ball in the right wing, cut into the middle and entered the penalty area from right. Shikabala then used his dribbling skills to evade two defenders but the third caught his leg and the referee awarded him another penalty kick with no hesitation. Salgipidis took it as well and scored from the spot to make the score 2-1 for PAOK.

In the last minutes of the game, Shikabala played very well, moved in empty spaces well, showed good vision in passes and almost created a thifrd goal when he crossed the ball from the left wing into to box but defender sent the ball behind for a corner before reaching Mieciel.

With this important win, PAOK moved up from the 7th position to the 6th position in the table and will face the previous club of Egyptian goalkeeper Nader El Sayed, Akratitos next weekend.