LEAGUE ROUND 15 - "THE CRUNCH" RESULT
Batigo United 0-3 July Fourth
Batigo United 126.4 4-4-2 Classic - July Fourth 131.7 3N-4-1-2
One thing happened today in this big fixture in the league is July Fourth simply brought their "A" game and battered Batigo United this afternoon, Of course Batigo are a tough opponent and on their day they would of turned us over, We had the first few exchanges of the play with Watson and Beckett getting a shot blocked by Agin who had a good game for Batigo and Agin was the next to try and threaten our defence and he took a shot on goal and it was blocked by Beckett... Kusama midway though the first half was put through bu Kusama and Queiroz dos Santos blocked that, Agin then attempted an effort on target but only for Knight to get a good save on it, Kusama soon won us a corner but that was cleared and it was only a matter of time until Papaleo got behind the defence and shot past the keeper to give us a vital goal on the stroke of HT and we lead 1-0.
The second half continued like the first, July Fourth on top, ruthless and wanting to bury this game Papaleo found a way though but was soon tackled and Agin gave away a free-kick, Beckett sent it above the Batigo defence and Pietropaolo got his head onto it and it hit the back of the net for 2-0. Batigo couldn't get back into the game. Another Agin shot was blocked and Petersen blocked a Queiroz dos Santos shot, Batigo simply could not supply their strikers and as soon as White eventually got hold of the ball, Ramirez took it away from him, With our CL Fixture vs LMUc coming up I decided to make changes rather late to stop any late Batigo comeback and soon as we made changes July Fourth got the ball forward to Pietropaolo and he finished the game off after curling it past the keeper while being 1v1 against him... Batigo had their best spell late on when White,Agin and Delgardo all forced good saves from Knight and just as the game was closing, we won a late corner and Papaleo crossed it in for Pietropaolo to header it goalwards only for the keeper Ghaderian to catch it underpressure and prevent Pietropaolo from getting a hatrick.
Goals: Papaleo (42) Pietropaolo (51,75) MOTM: Papaleo - 1pt.
Manager Points: Pietreopaolo 3,Papaleo 2,Knight 1
Top 5 Standings: Pietropaolo 28, Beckett 22,Petersen 17,Calavicci 17,Papaleo 16
Team Talk: We were fantastic today, in both defence and attack and were clearly the better between the 2 teams and fully deserve to win this game and also we should go on to win the league, with what is considered the most difficult league game out the way this season and won very well it means one thing... The 26-0-0 is a possibility.