League Play-Off

Inguias
Spectators: 32 (Terracing: 25, Seating: 7, VIP seats: 0) Inguias's Rodrigo Moniz started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. Sebastião Mota received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 4th minute. Gonçalo Azevedo tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. When the match clock showed 6 minutes, the score became 0-1 when Joaquim Branco sped through Inguias's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Gonçalo Azevedo. Joaquim Branco received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 9th minute. Gonçalo Azevedo tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Mário Veiga's late challenge caught a Inguias's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Mário Veiga helped the player get up and apologised. In the 11th match minute, Maxieira FC was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Mário Veiga to maneuver through the defense. Sebastião Mota hit a great freekick 12 minutes into the match. After a defensive mix-up in Maxieira FC's zone, Rodrigo Moniz stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Diogo Silva came out of the goal and Rodrigo Moniz tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. After a defensive mix-up in Maxieira FC's zone, Nuno Mota stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Diogo Silva came out of the goal and Nuno Mota tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Joaquim Branco sent away a hard shot on goal in the 23rd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Gonçalo Azevedo took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Joaquim Branco, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Nuno Mota fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 26th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Diogo Silva having to interfere. In the 29th minute, Inguias's Rodrigo Moniz dribbled the ball into the box and hit a shot with the outside of his foot, sending the keeper the wrong way. 1-1. Diogo Silva showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Rodrigo Moniz, who was totally free with the ball in the 33rd minute. The audience thought a goal was coming when Nuno Mota got free with Diogo Silva in the 38th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Joaquim Branco received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 41st minute. Gonçalo Azevedo tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. After a rather tough play, Inguias's Duarte Ferro got a free kick in the 43rd minute. 44 minutes into the match, Maxieira FC's Sebastião Mota sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Gonçalo Azevedo narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Joaquim Branco fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 47th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Gonçalo Azevedo having to interfere. The first half was very even, with the score at 1-1 when the whistle went for half-time. The players welcomed the break and quickly retired to the dressing rooms.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Sebastião Mota to make the kick off. The audience thought a goal was coming when Joaquim Branco got free with Gonçalo Azevedo in the 51st minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Gonçalo Azevedo showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Sebastião Mota in the 55th minute of the match. If Sebastião Mota had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 62nd minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Gonçalo Azevedo was out of position in the 76 minute of play, and Mário Veiga capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Mário Veiga really showed his touch with that goal: 1-3. 87 minutes into the match, Inguias's Nuno Mota sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Diogo Silva narrowly saved just below the crossbar. When Mário Veiga was, once again, overly rough in his play he received his second yellow card and was ordered off the ground. 88 minutes had been played. In the 89th match minute, Maxieira FC was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Mário Veiga to maneuver through the defense. 90 minutes into the match, Maxieira FC's goal looked a bit too open when Rodrigo Moniz came free, but Diogo Silva reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. The audience was convinced that Rodrigo Moniz's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Diogo Silva was relentless in the 94th minute of the game. In the 95th minute Nuno Mota shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Diogo Silva saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. The Maxieira FC supporters could be heard counting down the last seconds of the match. They errupted in celebration when the whistle blew, knowing Maxieira FC would go home with victory in their luggage after a match that easily could have ended differently.