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We continued to create chances, however the visitors equalised in the 38th minute through Bruno.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the second half, we were awarded a penalty and in the 52nd minute Garry Rodrigues converted from the spot to restore our advantage. Pafos FC increased their pressure after the 70th minute, but we managed the game well until the final whistle to claim a valuable victory.<\/p>\n<p>With this result, we moved up to 27 points in the standings, while Hern\u00e1n Losada recorded his second consecutive win on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Our next league fixture is away from home against ENP, at the Tasos Markou Stadium, on Sunday, 11 January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our team secured an important home victory, defeating Pafos FC 2-1 at the ALPHAMEGA Stadium, in the context of Matchday 16 of the Cyprus League by Stoiximan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":108470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163],"tags":[1201],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Match Report | APOLLON - PAFOS FC (2-1) - Apollon FC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Apollon FC - First Team - Match Report | APOLLON - PAFOS FC (2-1) - Our team secured an important home victory, defeating Pafos FC 2-1 at the ALPHAMEGA Stadium, in the context of Matchday 16 of the Cyprus League by\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apollon.com.cy\/en\/match-report-apollon-pafos-fc-2-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Match Report | APOLLON - PAFOS FC (2-1) - Apollon FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apollon FC - First Team - Match Report | APOLLON - PAFOS FC (2-1) - Our team secured an important home victory, defeating Pafos FC 2-1 at the ALPHAMEGA Stadium, in the context of Matchday 16 of the Cyprus League by\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.apollon.com.cy\/en\/match-report-apollon-pafos-fc-2-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Apollon FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialApollonFC\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-04T20:03:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.apollon.com.cy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SMAR2849.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2148\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1324\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Panos Kosta\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@APOLLONOFFICIAL\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@APOLLONOFFICIAL\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Panos Kosta\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.apollon.com.cy\/en\/match-report-apollon-pafos-fc-2-1\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.apollon.com.cy\/en\/match-report-apollon-pafos-fc-2-1\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Panos Kosta\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.apollon.com.cy\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/ff01e2dc8a20ad9746c402a7f62effff\"},\"headline\":\"Match Report | APOLLON &#8211; 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