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LONDON CITY 3-3 OLYMPIACOS FC
This was an entertaining game which either side could have won. Olympiacos still have hopes of qualifying for CL, so on paper the draw was good for us. Amila opened the scoring for the visitors but Declan Jones equalised for us, finishing off good work from winger, Shinji Noda. Our opponents quickly went ahead again through Smith, which made the halftime score 1-2, because Noda put a penalty wide after 37 minutes. Ten minutes after the break, Erbate looked to have sewn up the points, but two goals in the final ten minutes, the first from Wayne Dixon, firing home from a cross by Chris Pigott, and then Noda atoning for his penalty miss, heading home a Vener Chekmarev corner, to give us a share of the points. Central defender Jonathan Watts will miss one game after receiving a yellow card after just 3 minutes. Man of the Match went to Chekmarev.
GOAL STATS: Avila 3, Jones 27, Smith 33, Erbate 64, Dixon 80, Noda 85
TEAM TALK: We didn't know whether to laugh or cry today, when Shinji Noda blazed a penalty wide. If it had gone in, we would have won the match. But we didn't really want 3 points from the game. We are now 9 points behind the 7th place team, and with just 5 matches left, we are cheering our rival's on to get the 7 points they need to keep us down.
