The A Team Firm to Favourites WPC and The Academy were due to face each other in game one of evening’s futsal action at MAC Gym on Sunday night. It promised to be an all telling encounter as both sides needed to bounce back from the uncharacteristically poor form they showed the previous week. However, many of the Academy squad players had endured a lengthy day at a soccer tournament in Queenstown and with tired legs a plenty, the squad managers made a reluctant decision to withdraw their team from their scheduled futsal engagement. This handed a gratefully accepted three points to WPC. The dream isn’t over yet for the Academy but they have to face The A Team and the Brazilian Ballstars in their last two games of the season. A harder path to glory could not be provided for the young men on this occasion. The Misfits came so very close to causing a major upset against the Cape Horn Kings, who were a shadow of the team they were the week before. The Misfits were more than holding their own and with two minutes to go on the clock, the scoreboard showed 4 goals a-piece. Two successful late efforts resulted in dashing the dreams of the boys and girls in white and sadly they endured the heartbreak of yet another loss, going down to the South Americans 6-4. Your Mums Athletic could well be the most improved side in the league and despite losing their encounter with the now clear favourites for the Championship, the A-Team, 9-1, they provided their opposition with plenty of headaches fighting right through to the final whistle. The A Team are a physically very strong outfit who have developed a large squad of experienced players. They will be dreaming of steamrolling their way to a Cup and League double….meanwhile everyone else of dreaming of finding a way to stop them! The final game of the evening saw the joint league leaders, the Brazilian Ballstars take on the Ordinary Joes. The Ballstars lacked some of the usual flair but still managed to keep their noses in front of a spirited Ordinary Joes outfit. It finished 8-3, a score line that doesn’t help the Ballstars goal difference battle against the A Team. Next week is Cup semi-final night and interestingly the top two in the league face off against each other in the Cup. The A Team face the Ballstars at 7.55pm. The last time these two sides met they provided a nail biting 2-2 result. This won’t happen next Sunday, as we go straight to extra time then penalties. The Cape Horn Kings play off for the other final berth against the Academy at 6.10pm. In the Plate semi-final – we see WPC against YMA at 6.45pm and the Ordinary Joes take on the Misfits at 7.20pm.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:45:02 +0000
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