CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - QUARTER-FINAL, 1ST LEG

July Fourth 3-1 SK Senec

July Fourth 124.8 dandelion - SK Senec 120.8 Narrow Diamond

We knew this was not going to be easy tonight and it wasn't as SK Senec are the best team left in the competition after ourselves in terms of quality, but it's all about who can produce the goods on the day... There was an early setback for SK Senec when Pauwels suffered an injury which ment their only substitute Valencia had to come onto the field of play, This allowed to July Fourth to take the early initiative away from SK Senec, Firstly Pietropaolo trying to find his way through before midway through the first half we scored on a counter attack through Michu passing to Ramirez to curl it past the keeper for an unlikely first goalscorer this evening, Watson and Pietropaolo kept on going at the SK Senec defence and Coster kept winning the tackles for the remainder of the first half, Ramirez blocked a Koko shot for SK Senec. We held a 1-0 lead at HT.

The second half started off a bit dull and both sides knew there was a lot at stake this evening, SK Senec had a chance with Savic blocked from Calavicci, Savic then got a yellow card and Michu's free-kick hit the wall this time, Michu then tried to create something a few times but the SK Senec defence was equalled to it each time, Then on another counter attack from us we got the ball forward to Miku who just ran with it and nobody from SK Senec could catch Miku and Miku fired it in for a 2-0 lead for us, Senec had a brilliant chance from Valencia late on and then Knight somehow saved it for a corner and thankfully Savic fouled again, Miku tried to create another chance but it was blocked before O'Sullivan looked to have ended the tie on 82 minutes through a good run on the right-hand side cutting inside and chipping it over the keeper to give us a 3-0 lead. We look all set to qualify for the Semi-Final but SK Senec launched one more final attack with Valencia finding Boujiri in some space and he hit it into the back of the net for what could be an important away goal for SK Senec.

Goals: Ramirez (24) Miku (74) O'Sullivan (82) Boujiri (88) MOTM: O'Sullivan.

Team Talk: Well... We still have a bit of work to do in the second leg away at SK Senec with them reminding us that they are up for the fight with that late away goal, however if we were offered the 3-1 win before kick-off, I think we would of taken that scoreline and we can be happy we have a lead going into the second leg.

Revised Odds to Qualify: July Fourth 1/16, SK Senec 9/1.