LEAGUE ROUND 12

July Fourth 2-0 erster FC Puma

July Fourth 111.8 3N-1-3W-1-2 Dandelion - erster FC Puma 105.6 4-1-3W-2

Today was an important fixture as July Fourth played host to sister club erster FC Puma who July Fourth have recently been having the upper hand over this team, there have been a lot of classic battles between both teams and this was no exception. erster FC Puma setup rather defensive to perhaps get a draw or snatch a win here as they actually been struggling in the bottom half of the league and may not get promoted, they are nothing but a semi-active non-token buying team these days.

The early play of this game saw erster create a few opportunities to grab and early lead through Branston and Roca but Ramirez stood firm, as July Fourth got into the game, it was clear that they Michu, Miku and Papaleo under control by their defensive setup, O'Sullivan kept making mistakes and giving the ball away and got a yellow card which resulted in a substitute with Petersen coming on at half-time, Our best effort in the first half did give us the lead from a Michu corner that found Adams to header in. The second half was very much like the first, erster trying to undo us on the counter, but they ran into a top form Ramirez cutting out everything and heading everything away. In the 72nd minute Branston should of equalised when he was put through by Tran but it went out for a corner and when that came in, it was cleared by Ramirez, the game on a knife-edge for July Fourth's point of view was put out of reach right at the end when Papaleo passed to Crawford to shoot on target to make it 2-0 right at the end.

We are delighted to get the win in the end as on another day with the way erster played this quite easily could of been a different result.

Goals: Adams (28), Crawford (90) MOTM: Ramirez.

The win puts us temporarily 4 points ahead with us played a game MORE than our rivals since this was the first match in our league this afternoon. We play a difficult dersim team who are the leagues inform team at the moment and are mounting a mid-season challenge in the league, it will be tough but the way the league is going this season, we believe this is a game that we would very much have to win.