Season 40

[Raykco]

Wednesday. Day 25.

LEAGUE: Match 23. MINH CHI (73.0) v LONDON CITY (74.5)

Result: MINH CHI 1-0 LONDON
Goals: Ribeiro 42
M.o.M: Ivaylo Marinov (Minh)

Disappointing result for City. A win would have put us top, but this was always going to be a hard match, against the team in 3rd. The only goal of the game came just before halftime when Tiago dos Santos Ribeiro volleyed the ball past Dean Woodhouse, to secure the points for Minh, and tighten things up between the top three. We also lost Stig Andersson for the rest of the season, through a late injury.

OTHER LEAGUE RESULTS:
Danis 4-1 Alcudia, Lalas 0-1 Yakuza, Real 1-1 Shileno, Tongfang 2-1 Kukula, Olympiakos 0-2 Jeleznik, Phetchana 3-3 Legends.


CHAMPS LEAGUE. Semi-Final, 2nd Leg. LONDON CITY (74.5) v YIGIDO 85 (71.5)

Result: LONDON 2-1 YIGIDO (agg: 2-2)
Goals: Olsen 19, Moore 50, Robins 62
M.o.M: Percy Robins

Our second disappointment of the day, saw us eliminated from the CL, on the away goals rule. Trailing 0-1 from the first leg, we soon got into our rhythm and Marius Olsen put us ahead with a rasping shot past the helpless 'keeper. We held the lead until Laurence Moore scored from out of the blue for our visitors. With their away goal, we now needed to score at least two more goals. Percy Robins managed to get one of them to level the tie on aggregate, but we just couldn't find the net again, so we are out. DC, Ben Cole also suffered a season ending injury.


TEAM TALK:

It was a day of ups and downs for us. First we watched as top team Alcudia, surprisingly lost heavily at the 13th ranked team. This opened the door for us to go top with a win in Vietnam. But that didn't materialise. Then tonight, we saw Alcudia eliminated from the CL, giving us a great chance of winning the trophy. Alas, we succumbed to a lesser quality team ourselves, and so the two weakest semi-finalists will play in the final.

Tomorrow we play Olympiakos in the league and hope to return to winning ways. But we still need Alcudia to lose again to give us a chance.