Cyprus vs Latvia 2-1

Cyprus came from behind to beat Latvia 2-1 at GSP Stadium, with Marcus Edwards striking in the 90+4th minute after Giannis Kosti had drawn the hosts level. Latvia had led from the 57th minute until the late winner.

The first half ended goalless, with neither side finding a breakthrough before the interval. Latvia picked up the first booking through Raivis Jurkovskis in the 29th minute, then made two changes on 45 minutes, replacing Lukass Vapne with Kristers Cudars and Markuss Strods with danila patijcuks. Half-time was 0-0.

Eduards Daskevics put Latvia ahead in the 57th minute from Vladislavs Gutkovskis’s assist, only for Cyprus to respond after a double change on 58 minutes. Giannis Kosti, who had come on in the 58th minute, equalised on 70 minutes to make it 1-1, and Cyprus kept pushing after further changes on 67 minutes, when A. Neophytou and Charalampos Kyriakou came on. Nicholas Tsaroulla, introduced in the 90+1st minute, set up Edwards for the winner three minutes into stoppage time. Latvia had a late swap on 88 minutes as well, but could not hold on.

Cyprus had 62% of the ball and 600 passes to Latvia’s 385, while also leading 19 shots to 12 and 7 on target to 1. They won 7 corners to 3 and finished with 5 Latvia saves against 0 for Cyprus. Latvia still stayed in the game for long spells despite those numbers, and the final goal came from Cyprus’s 7th corner of the night.

Latvia were booked three times, with Raivis Jurkovskis on 29 minutes, danila patijcuks on 76 and Andrejs Cigaņiks on 85. Cyprus had two yellow cards, to Leonidas·Konomis on 85 minutes and no red cards were shown.