Prized/Friendly Cup

Cătălin Hîldan
Spectators: 43 (Terracing: 33, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Aquilino Ponte started the match with the kick off. Tornadele Siret's Ricardinho Lopes played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Lars Sundström in the 3rd minute of play. Ricardinho Lopes made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Lars Sundström in the 6th minute of play. Alaaddin Solskjær made a fantastic save in the 10th minute, when Aquilino Ponte sent off a good shot on target. 12 minutes into the game, Lars Sundström cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-1. Ricardinho Lopes was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. The crowd rose to their feet as Tornadele Siret's Vlad Miniș slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Alaaddin Solskjær. That made the score 1-1 after 17 minutes of play. In the 21st minute Ali Emir Işıklar shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Alaaddin Solskjær saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. FC Kurdistan's Yin Yun Fan managed, thanks to a brazen rush, stole the ball on a throw-in made by Zygmunt Zurawski in the 23 minute of the game. Ricardinho Lopes didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Lars Sundström went, in the 25th minute, to the upper right corner, 1-2 was the resulting score. 28 minutes into the match, FC Kurdistan's goal looked a bit too open when Vlad Miniș came free, but Alaaddin Solskjær reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. 30 minutes into the match, FC Kurdistan's goalkeeper Alaaddin Solskjær had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Aquilino Ponte. Ricardinho Lopes showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Lars Sundström in the 33rd minute of the match. Alaaddin Solskjær made an important save on a dangerous shot by Vlad Miniș in the 34th minute. In the 35th minute Tornadele Siret were awarded a corner. Zygmunt Zurawski went to the cornerflag to take it. After 38 minutes of play, FC Kurdistan's Lars Sundström made it 1-3 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Ricardinho Lopes was left in no man's land by his defense there! An unexpectedly hard shot by Lars Sundström in the 46th minute of play forced Tornadele Siret's goalkeeper Ricardinho Lopes to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After the first half FC Kurdistan were leading 1-3. They had played with great self confidence throughout the first half and fully deserved their lead.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Iwan Kasiewski to strike the kick off in the second half. Ricardinho Lopes showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Lars Sundström in the 53rd minute of the match. In the 53rd minute, Lars Sundström left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The FC Kurdistan fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 1-4. Lars Sundströms short, quick shot in the 57thth minute got Ricardinho Lopes to make great effort and bar the ball away from getting in. Alaaddin Solskjær showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Aquilino Ponte in the 58th minute of the match. Lars Sundström fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 61st minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Ricardinho Lopes having to interfere. FC Kurdistan made a substitution. Nils Hopp replaced Iwan Kasiewski. FC Kurdistan made a substitution. Elliot Nordgren replaced Lars Sundström. Tornadele Siret's defense didn't have a chance, in the 67th minute, when Elliot Nordgren scored to the left of an out of position Ricardinho Lopes, making the score, 1-5. An unexpectedly hard shot by Fredric Hybbert in the 72nd minute of play forced Tornadele Siret's goalkeeper Ricardinho Lopes to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Ricardinho Lopes stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Elliot Nordgren's shot from short distance in the 74th minute. The supporters of FC Kurdistan booed when Tornadele Siret was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 75 match minutes in a wonderful position. Maxim Creangă didn't get a good kick on the ball. Elliot Nordgren's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but Ricardinho Lopes read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 78th minute of play. In the 79th match minute, Tornadele Siret was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Zygmunt Zurawski to maneuver through the defense. Ricardinho Lopes was out of position in the 82 minute of play, and Elliot Nordgren capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Elliot Nordgren really showed his touch with that goal: 1-6. FC Kurdistan's Erhard Esbo quite brazenly broke a throw-in by Zygmunt Zurawski, made in the 84th minute of the game. Tornadele Siret's Ricardinho Lopes proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 86th minute of the match, managed to save Tornadele Siret from getting a goal against them. Fredric Hybbert was really disappointed when he shot the ball just outside the right post instead of scoring a goal in the 90th minute. FC Kurdistan's manager could be seen on the sidelines shaking his head and muttering to himself as his team had just wasted another chance. An unexpectedly hard shot by Vlad Miniș in the 91st minute of play forced FC Kurdistan's goalkeeper Alaaddin Solskjær to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The referee blew the final whistle, and the away crowd roared, having watched FC Kurdistan eke out a victory against a very well matched opponent.