After a long world trip due to 5 away games in the last 6 matches, Kemi Rovers FC are now back in Finland preparing for todays home games and are herewith going to give an update on their current season.
Thursday has been a very successful day with 2 consecutive 1:4 away-wins in Vietnam and Albania respectively. Whilst the game in Vietnam has been decided early and was never jeopardised, we had to be very patient in Albania until we got the victory secured.
Thai Cuong FC - Kemi Rovers FC 1:4 (0:1) (League)
0:1 Hämäläinen (14.)
0:2 Hämäläinen (61.)
0:3 Leppäluoto (66.)
1:3 Thanh Hung (69.)
█ Ngoc Anh (81., Thai Cuong FC)
1:4 Heikkinen (81., penalty)
Ilirios FC - Kemi Rovers FC 1:4 (0:1) (Champions League)
1:0 Marashi (6.)
INJ Kakko (39., Kemi Rovers FC)
1:1 Laaksonen (39., free kick)
1:2 Miettinen (70.)
1:3 Liimatainen (74.)
█ Gjyla (86., Ilirios FC)
1:4 Laaksonen (86., free kick)
On Friday morning, we have travelled on to Israel for our second leg in the cup. A hard opponent managed to beat our team with 2:1 but due to the important away goal and our 2:0 home victory on Wednesday, we secured the promotion to the next round where we are going to face a very successful Level 6 team from Thailand (strength 38.6) later today and are likely going to get our arse kicked for the very first time. In our second match last Friday we secured a 2:0 home victory over yet another team from Vietnam.
Israeli Team - Kemi Rovers FC 2:1 (1:0) (Cup)
1:0 Sadeghi (40.)
1:1 Heikkinen (48.)
2:1 Sadeghi (67.)
Kemi Rovers FC advance to Play-Offs with 3:2 on aggregate
Kemi Rovers FC - Eun Hyuk FC 2:0 (1:0) (League)
1:0 Dober (13.)
2:0 Laaksonen (59.)
Yesterday, yet another two away games have been played and we were facing Itay FC from Israel (currently I'm travelling a lot to this lovely country, tomorrow there is yet another game for me in Israel ) in the League, as well as Turkish club CTS6161 FC in the Champions League. Due to our recent travel activities, players have been very exhausted and thus the results yesterday have been below our expectation. Against Itay FC, we had to be very patient, our manager made some adjustments at tactics as well as substitutions, and in the end it played out well - still we had to wait until the 82nd minute to get the winner via a lovely free kick from our free kick specialist Fikret Laaksonen. Versus the Turkish side, we scored an early goal (again via free kick from Laaksonen), but after a silly foul from our main playmaker in the 87th minute, our opponent managed to score the equaliser via free kick.
Itay FC - Kemi Rovers FC 0:1 (0:0) (League)
0:1 Laaksonen (82., free kick)
CTS6161 FC - Kemi Rovers FC 1:1 (0:1) (Champions League)
0:1 Laaksonen (12., free kick)
1:1 Röseler (87., free kick)
We are currently leading the league as well as the Champions League and are looking forward to a tough cup match today (L2 18.9 vs L6 38.6) as well as a home game in the League against the current 3rd placed team from Moscow, Russia.
Kemi Rovers FC will try to hold up to it's current successful pace and will post more results and activities soon again.