CYPRUS MAKE SELECTIONS FOR FINAL TWO NATIONS LEAGUE MATCHES

Sofronis Avgousti has made his choices for Cyprus’s last two group stage matches of the 2024-2025 UEFA Nations League, and of the calendar year 2024. Cyprus will play at home to Lithuania on Friday in Larnaca, and then they close out their group play next week on Monday in Bucharest, visiting Romania. Cyprus have never lost to Lithuania in five previous meetings, having drawn them once, and winning the other four times, including earlier this year back in September. Cyprus have beaten Romania once, in February 2000, and drawn them three times, but otherwise have lost ten times to them in their previous 14 encounters.

Here are the players called up to the Cypriot national team:

GOALKEEPERS: Joel Mall(Servette), Neophytos Michael(Pafos FC), Dimitris Demetriou(Apollonas)

DEFENDERS: Kostas Laifis(APOEL), Giorgos Malekkidis(Apollonas), Minas Antoniou(Karmiotissa), Nikolas Panayiotou(Omonoia), Christos Shelis(Panaitolikos), Andreas Karo(Maccabi Petah Tikva), Stelios Andreou(Charleroi), Nikolas Ioannou(Sampdoria), Anderson Correia(Aris Limassol)

MIDFIELDERS: Kostakis Artymatas(Anorthosis), Giannis Satsias(APOEL), Danilo Spoljaric(Apollonas), Ioannis Kousoulos(Omonoia), Loizos Loizou(Omonoia), Charalambos Charalambous(Omonoia), Grigoris Kastanos(Hellas Verona)

FORWARDS: Andreas Makris(AEL Limassol), Andronikos Kakoullis(Omonoia), Ioannis Pittas(AIK Solna), Ruel Sotiriou(Bristol Rovers), Marinos Tzionis(Cukaricki), Pieros Sotiriou(Sanfrecce Hiroshima)

Andrew Mantzas

Twitter: @MantzasNC