Royal Rumble Cup Quarter-Final, 1st Leg

July Fourth 1-0 fc sulo

July Fourth 143.7 3N-1-4-2 then 70 minutes - fc sulo 142.4 4-3N-1-2

A very big game here seeing both teams line up with every player being at least 7* at our level and all 22 players having SA's, It was important for us to get a good result and we were put under pressure for the first half hour when fc sulo looked the most likely to get a breakthrough, but we defended well and limited them only to a couple of shots on target, July Fourth did find a way against the run of play when Papaleo found a way forward and was able to poke it past the keeper to give us the lead just after half an hour, We had a couple of more chances before the break with Pietropaolo but nothing come of it. fc sulo were quite content with their team selection and they played a good game as we strived to battle on in this first leg, We decided at 70 minutes that we were going to throw our wingers to AML/AMR and shortly afterwards their GK was injured, You know what that means... no more goals and Petersen did have a chance late on to defy the GK injury bug but put it wide.

Goals: Papaleo (31) MOTM: Papaleo.

Team Talk: I'd say this was a good result for us in the context of the tie, we have a 1-0 lead in a game we didn't play too brilliantly and we can go and attack the 2nd leg in search of an away goal to finish this one off.