Season 39

[July Fourth]

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL 2ND LEG

ST.KOOZ United 1-7 July Fourth

July Fourth win 7-1 on aggregate
ST.KOOZ United 100.3 4-3N-1-2 - July Fourth 108.3 4-5-1 V First Half, 3-5-2 V Second Half.

This CL Quarter-Final was a classic and a memorable match for us here especially our second half performance when questions were asked of our team. ST.KOOZ United started the game well and strong and had a couple of early chances that Adams and Ramirez blocked, Then we gave away a silly free-kick with Norris tripping the attacker and getting a yellow card, up stepped Alavi for ST.KOOZ to send it around the wall and it gave ST.KOOZ the lead and the upset was on. 3 minutes later Norris gave away another free-kick and this time was sparred his blushes from the referee and ST.KOOZ also got this on target and Seaman this time saved it, ST.KOOZ enjoyed most of the first half by continuing to put pressure on us from a corner headed away by Ramirez, Ospina then had 2 attacks, firstly blocked by Norris and then tackled by Adams, It took 39 minutes for July Fourth to get their first attack in by Zidane which got cut out by Alstig, Moments later Norris who gave away those free-kicks earlier in the 1st half got his act together and got hold of the ball got past the last defender and fired in the shot and beat the keeper for us to get that away goal. Norris 3 minutes later had an attack cut out by Holst.

At half-time we gave the team talks and then decided we still needed to do something, we decided to throw the kitchen sink at ST.KOOZ and bring off Hogan and brought on Papaleo for the second half and switched from 4-5-1 V to 3-5-2 V and we had 45 mins to find out if this would win us or lose us the tie...

The 2nd half begun and July Fourth being told just to go for it and play attacking football and win the tie. Zidane run with the ball and Holst knocked it away for the corner, Michu crossed it in and the keeper grabbed it out the air, Then a minute later Michu was up with the ball and knocked it past the defender and then hit it hard past the keeper to put us in front and with the away goal rule we were in control finally but that was not it... ST.KOOZ United not done yet and Ospina almost beat Seaman a few minutes later, L.McNamara on 61 minutes shot richoeted out for a corner and Michu crossed in Mensah headed it in to surely win us the tie now and L.McNamara then put any doubt away on 65 minutes with fast diagonal run into the box to knock it past the keeper, Now July Fourth can enjoy themselves as we won the ball in defence on 70 minutes with Norris getting forward to square it off for Zidane to shoot past the now demoralised ST.KOOZ keeper, Papaleo and Mensah both had a shot blocked each next before a July Fourth corner got headed away by the ST.KOOZ goalscorer Alavi, a minute later we were back on the attack and Mensah tried one from long range and caught the keeper off his line to get his brace and then there was time for Papaleo to get a late one with a flick past a defender and dropping it low into the bottom corner to cause a night of misery for the ST.KOOZ keeper Nicolas Aranda.

After a nervy and tricky first 3 quarters of this Quarter-Final, July Fourth finally got their act together for when it really mattered.

Goals: Alavi (19) Norris (39) Michu (50) Mensah (61,84) L.McNamara (64) Zidane (70) Papaleo (88) MOTM: Ramirez.

We play bordomavi (98.2) in the Semi-Finals after the defeated Ayberk 3-2 on aggregate, the other Semi-Final is between beta united (99.4) and WoonY United (99.9).