Marco and Kythikia drew 2:2 in the opening round of the Greek Cup on Tuesday evening. The hosts took an early lead through Seba's fifteenth-minute strike, only for D. Theodoridis to level before half-time. By then, Kythikia had already shown they were not here to make up the numbers.
Seba opened the scoring in the fifteenth minute, and to be fair, Marco looked the more dangerous side. The visitors responded quickly — Theodoridis found the net in the nineteenth minute. C. Ligdas picked up a yellow card shortly after, a sign of Kythikia's growing frustration.
The second half brought more drama. Ligdas equalised in the fifty-second minute, and Marco brought on K. Polykratis at the break. The visitors then made three changes around the sixtieth minute — Bushaj, Milojevic and Jagne all came on. And here's the thing: those substitutions changed the shape of the game.
A crucial moment arrived in the sixty-eighth minute when Y. El Arabi missed a penalty. A. Fation and J. Antonisse both picked up yellow cards around that same period. Marco brought on J. Mboula and Bernardo, while Kythikia introduced I. Muller. The tension was palpable.
Marco pushed for a winner in the final quarter. Substitutions came thick and fast — T. Johnson Eboh, J. Mendoza and K. Tsaknis all entered the fray. And then, in the forty-fourth minute of stoppage time, V. Alexopoulos struck. Kythikia had weathered the storm, but Marco finally got what they wanted.
