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Perrine Park
Spectators: 7639 (Terracing: 5770, Seating: 1769, VIP seats: 100) Dark Tide's Jose McNair 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. Darnell Wood's late challenge caught a Huron FC's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Darnell Wood helped the player get up and apologised. In the 7th minute, Miguel Lim sent off a long shot on goal, but the shot was nowhere near the goal and Dark Tide's Jackson Woodward didn't even have to move. A collision led to Dark Tide getting a freekick after 10 minutes play. Vincent Carrey hit a great ball. Raul Russell received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 15th minute. Jackson Woodward tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Jackson Woodward made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Walton Roberts in the 17th minute of play. 18 minutes into the match, Raul Russell had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Jackson Woodward. Dark Tide's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Raul Russell was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-1. The audience was convinced that Walton Roberts's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Jackson Woodward was relentless in the 23rd minute of the game. Jackson Woodward took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Walton Roberts, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Raul Russell sent away a hard shot on goal in the 34th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Walton Roberts fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 36th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Jackson Woodward having to interfere. The supporters of Huron FC booed when Dark Tide was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 41 match minutes in a wonderful position. Vincent Carrey didn't get a good kick on the ball. 42 minutes into the match, Dark Tide's goal looked a bit too open when Raul Russell came free, but Jackson Woodward reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-1.

The wind increased when Walton Roberts made the kick off in the second half. Raul Russell received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 54th minute. Jackson Woodward tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Jackson Woodward made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Walton Roberts in the 56th minute of play. If Walton Roberts had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 58th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Darnell Wood was shown his second yellow card after 60 minutes, following a rather ugly tackle on opponent. That was the end of his participation in the match. After 61 played minutes Dark Tide got a freekick which was hit by Darnell Wood. After 64 played minutes Walton Roberts rounded Dark Tide's defense and shot a beautiful shot into goal via left pole - 0-2. Jackson Woodward took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Walton Roberts, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Raul Russell scored 0-3 in the 69th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Jackson Woodward, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. If Raul Russell had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 78th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Walton Roberts received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 87th minute. Jackson Woodward tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Rico Lacey sent away a hard shot on goal in the 92nd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Dark Tide's Rico Lacey got a good chance for a goal in the 96th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar.