Official Cup

Arturo Valerio
Spectators: 153 (Terracing: 115, Seating: 35, VIP seats: 3) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Davide Melfi started the match with the kick off. Dave Padula took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Carlinhos Félix, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Carlinhos Félix sent away a hard shot on goal in the 4th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Dave Padula took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Carlinhos Félix, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Robert Christoffersson sent away a hard shot on goal in the 15th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. In the 17th minute, Robert Christoffersson ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Dave Padula was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-2. When the match clock showed 19 minutes, the score became 0-3 when Robert Christoffersson sped through As Melfi 1929's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Dave Padula. Robert Christoffersson received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 22nd minute. Dave Padula tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Dave Padula stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Carlinhos Félix's shot from short distance in the 26th minute. After 26 played minutes As Melfi 1929 got a freekick which was hit by Emiliano Cinalli. 27 minutes into the game, Carlinhos Félix cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-4. Dave Padula was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. Thanks to some nice foot action and superb ball handling Robert Christoffersson in the 30th minute a chance for a shot on goal. With an extended leg and a bit of luck Dave Padula prevented the ball from getting in the gole. The throw-in from Amedeo Raniolo in the 31st minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by Here Comes the Hammer's Stig Eskilsson. Carlinhos Félix might have been able to make a better finish in the 32nd minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Dave Padula. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Carlinhos Félix ran back to his position shaking his head. In the 36th minute, Carlinhos Félix got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. After 40 minutes of play, Here Comes the Hammer's Robert Christoffersson made it 0-5 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Dave Padula was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 44th minute, Robert Christoffersson got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-5.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Carlinhos Félix stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. In the 51st minute Carlinhos Félix shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Dave Padula saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Dave Padula didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Robert Christoffersson went, in the 53rd minute, to the upper right corner, 0-6 was the resulting score. 57 minutes into the match, Robert Christoffersson had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Dave Padula. As Melfi 1929's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Robert Christoffersson was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-7. In the 60th minute, Tymoteusz Pilarczyk reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Dave Padula. The goal made the score 0-8. Robert Christofferssons short, quick shot in the 62ndth minute got Dave Padula to make great effort and bar the ball away from getting in. An unexpectedly hard shot by Carlinhos Félix in the 66th minute of play forced As Melfi 1929's goalkeeper Dave Padula to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. When the match had gone on for 67 minutes, Robert Christoffersson took a quick shot and it went in 0-9 without a chance for Dave Padula to make any attempt to save it. When Robert Christoffersson came up free with the goalie in the 70th minute, the Here Comes the Hammer 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 Robert Christoffersson couldn't finish the play. After 71 minutes of play, Here Comes the Hammer's Carlinhos Félix made it 0-10 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Dave Padula was left in no man's land by his defense there! Here Comes the Hammer's attentive Song Hao Feng managed to snatch the ball when Amedeo Raniolo made a throw-in in the 78th minute of the game. When Carlinhos Félix came up free with the goalie in the 83rd minute, the Here Comes the Hammer 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 Carlinhos Félix couldn't finish the play. Here Comes the Hammer's players went to the stands to thank the travelling support. The fan's backing had helped spurr the team on to a fine performance that won them the match.