Prized/Friendly Cup

MORRISON PARK
Spectators: 41 (Terracing: 32, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Stelian Butuc showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Jaspar De Weijgaert in the 5th minute of the match. Stelian Butuc showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Jaspar De Weijgaert, who was totally free with the ball in the 9th minute. 12 minutes into the game, Fermin Prejun threw the ball into play from the sideline. THE CRYSTAL SHIP's Cazimir Gogea quickly snatched the ball and retained possesion. Dacians Academy's Stelian Butuc proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 15th minute of the match, managed to save Dacians Academy from getting a goal against them. In the 16th minute Jaspar De Weijgaert shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Stelian Butuc saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 19 minutes had been played when some careless play by THE CRYSTAL SHIP's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Fermin Prejun was slow to take the kick. During this time Dacians Academy's players had a chance to rest. The corner led Dacians Academy's Fermin Prejun to fire away a dangerous shot which Robert Tarcu despite some difficulties managed to get hold on the ball. Robert Tarcu made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Iwo Tamulewicz in the 25th minute of play. In the 27thth minute of the game Iwo Tamulewicz who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but THE CRYSTAL SHIP's Robert Tarcu was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Manole Anghel in the 28th minute of play forced THE CRYSTAL SHIP's goalkeeper Robert Tarcu to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After 30 minutes of play, Dacians Academy's Manole Anghel made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Robert Tarcu was left in no man's land by his defense there! After 36 played minutes THE CRYSTAL SHIP got a freekick which was hit by Jaspar De Weijgaert. The corner went over the outstretched arms of Dacians Academy's goalie and right to Borys Dudek. He fired away a shot at goal, but the shot had too much spin, and it went just outside the goal. Dacians Academy's manager breathed a sigh of relief on the sidelines as his team had managed to escape an almost certain goal. The THE CRYSTAL SHIP players were disheartened as they walked off the pitch after the first half. Dacians Academy were winning 0-1.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Jaspar De Weijgaert to make the kick off. Stelian Butuc made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Borys Dudek in the 51st minute of play. When Iwo Tamulewicz came up free with the goalie in the 52nd minute, the Dacians Academy fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Iwo Tamulewicz couldn't finish the play. Robert Tarcu didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Manole Anghel went, in the 54th minute, to the upper right corner, 0-2 was the resulting score. After a defensive mix-up in THE CRYSTAL SHIP's zone, Baybars Geylanoğlu stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Robert Tarcu came out of the goal and Baybars Geylanoğlu tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. In the 61st minute, Xavi Popescu hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 63rd minute of the match Cazimir Gogea shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Stelian Butuc showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. A sloppy throw-in by Codrin Udrescu in the 66th minute of the game went astray and was snapped up by Dacians Academy's Xavi Popescu. Robert Tarcu took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Iwo Tamulewicz, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Iwo Tamulewicz in the 68th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Robert Tarcu saved THE CRYSTAL SHIP from getting behind. An unexpectedly hard shot by Iwo Tamulewicz in the 70th minute of play forced THE CRYSTAL SHIP's goalkeeper Robert Tarcu to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 81st minute, Costel Macavei hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Iwo Tamulewicz fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 82nd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Robert Tarcu having to interfere. Dacians Academy's Stelian Butuc played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Jaspar De Weijgaert in the 85th minute of play. The audience was convinced that Jaspar De Weijgaert's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Stelian Butuc was relentless in the 86th minute of the game. After some fancy dribbling in the 88th minute, Iurie Ilie managed to get in a good position for a shot. THE CRYSTAL SHIP's supporters rose to their feet, but Iurie Ilie was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Stelian Butuc breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Jaspar De Weijgaert struck a weak shot in the 91st minute. Stelian Butuc didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for THE CRYSTAL SHIP. In the 96th minute THE CRYSTAL SHIP were awarded a corner. Iurie Ilie went to the cornerflag to take it. Iurie Ilie made a great header on THE CRYSTAL SHIP's corner, it was just that Dacians Academy's Stelian Butuc managed to reach the ball for a save. Dacians Academy's supporters were very happy and cheered loudly because their team had won after a very close match.