CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - SEMI-FINAL, 1ST LEG

July Fourth 6-0 vito6a

July Fourth 119.3 3N-1-2-3W-1 then 68 minutes dandelion - vito6a 116.9 4-4-1-1

This was a tough semi-final as mentioned earlier in the preview but sometimes you don't know what to expect from July Fourth, yesterday they couldn't score to save themselves and today was a different day as we worked to banish some of our past disappointment, For the first 20 minutes vito6a were getting the early chances in with Gougoulakis posing the early thread with a cross that was cleared by Hogan and a shot on goal from him that was deflected away from Miku, we sensed early that something wasn't quite right so we changed our passing style midway through the first half, O'Sullivan was the first to attempt an attack for July Fourth and Negrea won the ball and cleared it, Miku's long range shot then found the back of the net and it was Miku's 20th goal of the season and the first in a while, 5 minutes later and Michu got through on goal but it was saved and Stuart crossed in the corner and Michu jumped up and headed us into a 2-0 lead, there was a spell for vito6a to try and get an away goal and get back into the tie before HT and we defended well with Childs.

The second half started and July Fourth continued to pressure the vito6a defence and Vestergaard and Ramirez both had a shot blocked before July Fourth turned on the style and took away the tie from vito6a's reach when Michu passed to Diamond to fire it past Lisai in the vito6a goal, Then a foul from Manero earned himself a yellow and allowed Michu a free-kick and he got it spot on by firing it into the top corner... vito6a needed a goal to give themselves any hope in the 2nd leg, but Billota could not beat Hogan and Childs and July fourth soon finished the game off when Hogan's clearance then found Diamond who decided to go for goal and unexpectedly found the back of the net from long distance... 84 minutes played and there was time for one more... this time from O'Sullivan who got into the right area of the penalty area and just went for power and beat the keeper to wrap up an amazing night of football from July Fourth.

Goals: Miku (28) Michu (33,60) Diamond (52,78) O'Sullivan (84) MOTM: Michu.

Team Talk: Before tonights match I would of been happy enough with a 2-0 win tonight, but it seems like we got our tactics spot on for this game and our opponents just had no answer when we play like this. This is what July Fourth are capable of doing when they are at their best and tonights result was totally unexpected and I'm delighted to have beaten such a tough opponent in vito6a by a scoreline like this. I think we can say we are safely in Fridays Champions League Final against either aejn or gunners and we can watch their game tonight to get an idea what to expect from our potential opponents in the Final.