00:00Well, NAC have not won a game here within 90 minutes all season.
00:06Incredible, really, considering we're now into early November.
00:10The three players that come in, Gabriel Bras into the back line,
00:13Jamiro Monteiro and Dele Thomas.
00:16Most notably at left back, actually, without their regular Jura Baukowicz,
00:21who is missing because of injury.
00:26NAC wearing the eye-catching red and green on the near Nicosia in the white.
00:33And after tonight, we will be at the midway point in the UEFA Europa League this season.
00:38So we are exiting out of the formative stage now,
00:42and certainly the league table is going to give us much more of an insight
00:45into who will be where come the end of it all.
00:52NAC, beginning the night 20th in that Europa League phase table,
00:58Omini and Nicosia in 11th.
01:00And a real possibility for the Cypriots to finish the night,
01:03potentially in one of those premium positions inside the top eight,
01:06if they can win here this evening.
01:12And for the first time, here they come, the Cypriot champions with Dione.
01:17And it's a beautiful ball, and the header from Montenegro is saved by Kretas.
01:23This is Gabriel Bras.
01:27It's a little better from the Dutch team.
01:30Linsen's layoff, and through the crowd it came from Libreton.
01:34Well, that's the second time in this first half that Dione has provided very good balls into the box for
01:41Jadon Montnor.
01:45Andriou, Dione, a chance for him now, and he takes it.
01:51He's been brilliant so far.
01:54And he seizes the big opportunity that comes his way.
02:02Finished with the confidence of a man who is bang in form right now.
02:09That's nine goals in his 18 games in all competitions.
02:13But he's very first in this competition.
02:18And it's all a little bit sloppy from NSA, who had had their warning signs.
02:23And frankly, they weren't really quick enough to get out to Dione.
02:29Kaplan decided to stand him up, but Dione was given too much time and was lethal with his execution.
02:40Libreton.
02:42Sherry sliding it through.
02:44Bischoff clipping it in.
02:46Willemson missed it.
02:47Dele Thomas is there.
02:48He's hit the bar.
02:49A few obstacles in the way of the youngster, Dele Thomas.
02:57Who was patiently waiting at the back of the Kiwi.
03:01She felt just set NSA on the road, but a bump in the road so far tonight.
03:08This is a bit better though, Montero.
03:10That's a decent effort, and that is a shot on goal.
03:17Sherry's corner, Linsen's header.
03:24But there is the half-time whistle.
03:28And there are a few disgruntled noises emerging from the stands of the Hoffertstadion.
03:33But Stadion didn't really open up Omini and Nicosia anywhere near as much as they would have hoped.
03:42And the Cypria team begin the second half 45 minutes away from winning their third Europa League game.
03:50Linsen, probably one of the taller targets in there, they say, from these set pieces.
03:55Sherry's ball.
03:56Oh, great header, Linsen.
03:59One each.
04:03And yet again, Brian Linsen, with his head, powers in a Europa League goal.
04:16Just has this knack of being where he needs to be, and has done throughout his career.
04:25It was too powerful for Kaminsky, who got a hand to it, but he couldn't stop it from crossing the
04:31line.
04:36And it is the experience that steps up the corner from the...
04:41Just for a moment, shape to shoot.
04:46That's always on Sherry's mind.
04:48And there is Linsen, who cannot do more with it on the follow-up.
04:53Offside flag was up.
04:55Kaplan.
05:01Philipson in the middle.
05:02Linsen in there as well.
05:03Philipson with the touchback.
05:05And that's Tadic.
05:07Kaminsky save, but it's in on the follow-up from Clement Bischoff.
05:16And for the first time tonight, NSA leads.
05:28He was razor sharp to the rebound, Bischoff.
05:33And here's Linsen.
05:34It might be about to get better, it is!
05:37What a finish that is from Brian Linsen.
05:47Two of the fastest goals you'll see all season in the Europa League.
05:53There was barely two minutes between them.
05:58And that's two for him tonight as well.
06:14And all the worries about how the night was unfolding earlier
06:17have disappeared now.
06:25Linsen kept himself onside.
06:27It's a beautiful ball as well.
06:30Such a strange situation for them
06:31because for large portions of the night
06:33they will feel like they were the better team.
06:36They've had this game taken away, potentially.
06:38Or maybe not.
06:39They might be back in business.
06:41Great save by Kretas.
06:43And then the foul by Simic.
06:45And Kretas saved it anyway.
06:49Certainly a desire, isn't there, for more from NSA.
06:51I'm not sure they're going to shut the shop up here.
06:56It's not really their style.
06:58That's stylish from Tadic.
07:00Oh, what a chance for Linsen.
07:02That would have been an amazing way to get a hat-trick.
07:05Still got to go to Rennes as well in France.
07:08They've got home games against Celtic
07:09and the Turkish side for Siktas.
07:13And the red and green shirts are flooding forward.
07:16Sierhaus, he didn't get anything clean on it.
07:25He's got a couple of goals this season
07:27but none since the opening two league matches,
07:30Kai Sierhaus.
07:34And we're into what will probably be
07:36the final three minutes of this game.
07:44I mentioned that Omini are playing Rennes.
07:46That is the next opponent in the Europa League,
07:48they say.
07:50Who can seal it here.
07:51Sierhaus didn't drop for him
07:54but it did for Tadic
07:55and he's hit the bar.
07:59Playing for the first time tonight
08:00in a few weeks.
08:02That might well be it.
08:04And indeed it is.
08:08And this is what the European Knights
08:10were meant to be about for Rennes 8.
