Official Cup

Parque dos Trens
Spectators: 160 (Terracing: 120, Seating: 37, VIP seats: 3) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Martins Palermo kicked off to start the match. With a little luck, Fecha Libre's Emiliano Martínez got control of the ball when Erivaldo Romero tried to sneak it across the goal line. 14 minutes into the game, Martins Palermo cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-1. Cipriano Abreu was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. In the 18th minute, Jari Jaakkola left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】 fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 1-1. In the 20th minute, José Augusto Prado hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 28th minute of the match A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】 got a corner. Fecha Libre's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Jari Jaakkola ran over to the corner to take the kick. The corner led A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】's Jari Jaakkola to fire away a dangerous shot which Emiliano Martínez despite some difficulties managed to get hold on the ball. 33 minutes into the game, Martins Palermo cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 1-2. Cipriano Abreu was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. Emiliano Martínez showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Casper Granqvist, who was totally free with the ball in the 36th minute. 38 minutes had been played when some careless play by Fecha Libre's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Jari Jaakkola was slow to take the kick. During this time A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】's players had a chance to rest. The corner ended in Apostolikas Romanos almost managing to get the ball behind the net, but Fecha Libre's Emiliano Martínez did a great save. In the 44th minute, Jari Jaakkola hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Disappointed in the 1-2 score, the home team went to the dressing room to adjust tactics for the second half.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Casper Granqvist to make the kick off. Emiliano Martínez showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Hamílton das Neves, who was totally free with the ball in the 51st minute. Fecha Libre's Emiliano Martínez played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Erivaldo Romero in the 53rd minute of play. Emiliano Martínez made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Erivaldo Romero in the 53rd minute of play. A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】's Cipriano Abreu played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Martins Palermo in the 56th minute of play. Cipriano Abreu made an important save on a dangerous shot by Martins Palermo in the 58th minute. After having played for 60 minutes, Martins Palermo managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Fecha Libre's supporters crossed their fingers, but Martins Palermo was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】's Battal Cüneyt Türe was substituted for Hamílton das Neves. Cipriano Abreu was out of position in the 63 minute of play, and Igli Tare capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Igli Tare really showed his touch with that goal: 1-3. A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】's Cipriano Abreu proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 67th minute of the match, managed to save A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】 from getting a goal against them. Erivaldo Romero fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 74th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Emiliano Martínez having to interfere. Genílson de Amorim made in the 77th minute of the game a fairly good throw-in which was taken care of by Giuseppe Marques. In the 79th minute, Erivaldo Romero made a precise shot to the right of Emiliano Martínez. Fecha Libre's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 2-3. In the 82nd minute Battal Cüneyt Türe shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Emiliano Martínez saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Fecha Libre's Ulises Hustaz was substituted for Kamiel Stessel. A throw-in in the 93rd minute of the game was made by Genílson de Amorim with Giuseppe Marques as target, who quickly passed the ball forward. After 94 minutes of play, A. A. Carioca 【CIMZ】's Dalmo Soares made it 3-3 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Emiliano Martínez was left in no man's land by his defense there! The teams fought very hard right up to the final whistle. Both sets of players were happy to go away with a draw.