Twelve months after introducing some rule amendments that enabled more league champions (from lesser European league) to compete in the latter stages of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA President, Michel Platini, will have slept like a baby on Wednesday night when Apoel Nicosia dumped French side, Olympique Lyonnais, out of the second round of the elite tournament in a packed GPS Arena in Cyprus.

Apoel Nicosia thus became the first Cypriot side to reach the quarter final of an European competition, after knocking out perennial Champions League participants, Lyon, on penalties.

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