Prized/Friendly Cup

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Spectators: 36 (Terracing: 28, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Mike Cai started the match with the kick off. In the 3rdth minute of the game Mike Cai who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Uptown Otters's Aimilios Manolas was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Ke Zhou Yuan charged in rather forcefully in the 5th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Ke Zhou Yuan the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. After a rather tough play, Paralia Athens's Ke Zhou Yuan got a free kick in the 5th minute. 7 minutes into the game, Mike Cai cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-1. Aimilios Manolas was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. In the 9th minute, Eric Groth hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Aron Nedelcea charged in rather forcefully in the 15th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Aron Nedelcea the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. In the 15th minute, Aron Nedelcea hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 17th minute, Mike Cai left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Paralia Athens fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-2. Aimilios Manolas didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Mike Cai went, in the 20th minute, to the upper right corner, 0-3 was the resulting score. 24 minutes into the game, Paralia Athens's Mike Cai nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Aimilios Manolas made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 0-4. Aimilios Manolas showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Mike Cai, who was totally free with the ball in the 31st minute. Ke Zhou Yuan fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 32nd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Aimilios Manolas having to interfere. Aimilios Manolas made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Mike Cai in the 36th minute of play. Aimilios Manolas didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when Paralia Athens's Mike Cai shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 0-5 in the ordered_time% minute. With a little luck, Paralia Athens's Virgil Olariu got control of the ball when Staffan Bergman tried to sneak it across the goal line. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-5.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Liviu Zubaşcu to strike the kick off in the second half. After 56 minutes of play, Paralia Athens's Mike Cai made it 0-6 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Aimilios Manolas was left in no man's land by his defense there! Costel Neagoe hit a great freekick 59 minutes into the match. Mike Cais short, quick shot in the 60thth minute got Aimilios Manolas to make great effort and bar the ball away from getting in. Uptown Otters's defense didn't have a chance, in the 67th minute, when Mike Cai scored to the left of an out of position Aimilios Manolas, making the score, 0-8. Mike Cai in the 70thth minute had a little luck and got a chance for a shot in front of the goal. Without hesitation aimed to the right of Aimilios Manolas, who managed to lunge to the right direction and made a save. Aron Nedelcea kicked well hit freekick during the 71st minute of the match. Paralia Athens's Gürkan Akaydın was substituted for Ke Zhou Yuan. In the 72nd minute, Aron Nedelcea hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 75 minutes into the match, Gürkan Akaydın had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Aimilios Manolas. Uptown Otters's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Gürkan Akaydın was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-9. The audience thought a goal was coming when Mike Cai got free with Aimilios Manolas in the 79th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Mike Cai might have been able to make a better finish in the 80th minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Aimilios Manolas. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Mike Cai ran back to his position shaking his head. The supporters of Uptown Otters booed when Paralia Athens was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 91 match minutes in a wonderful position. Agostinho Moura didn't get a good kick on the ball. In the 92nd match minute, Uptown Otters was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Francis Lefevre to maneuver through the defense. Eric Groth hit a great freekick 93 minutes into the match. When Gonzalo Taibo came up free with the goalie in the 94th minute, the Paralia Athens 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 Gonzalo Taibo couldn't finish the play. From close distance Gürkan Akaydın pressed in the 0-10 goal high up into nets stiches in the right cross 96 minutes into the game. The Uptown Otters fans had already started to leave before the final whistle blew. Paralia Athens were clearly better and deserved to take the win.