League

Hobart
Spectators: 6791 (Terracing: 5000, Seating: 1791, VIP seats: 0) Guy Dickey started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. In the 5th match minute, Gotham City Athletic was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Darin Bowling to maneuver through the defense. In the 16th minute, Allan Samuels left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Gotham City Athletic fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-1. Marcellus Cordero hit a great freekick 21 minutes into the match. The supporters of Gotham City Athletic booed when Hobart was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 23 match minutes in a wonderful position. Gustavo Dennis didn't get a good kick on the ball. In the 25th minute Allan Samuels shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Carlo Stanford saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. When the match clock showed 32 minutes, the score became 0-2 when Allan Samuels sped through Hobart's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Carlo Stanford. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-2 lead.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Allan Samuels stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. Elvis Huston took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Marcellus Cordero, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. After 56 played minutes Gotham City Athletic got a freekick which was hit by Ace Godfrey. Don Acero charged in rather forcefully in the 62nd minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Don Acero the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. Allan Samuels might have been able to make a better finish in the 67th minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Carlo Stanford. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Allan Samuels ran back to his position shaking his head. An unexpectedly hard shot by Allan Samuels in the 67th minute of play forced Hobart's goalkeeper Carlo Stanford to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Marcellus Cordero in the 70th minute of play forced Gotham City Athletic's goalkeeper Elvis Huston to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The referee was alert and spotted a serious foul by Ace Godfrey during the 77th minute. The player immediately received a yellow card. In the 81st minute, Darin Bowling fired away a shot on goal. He put a little to much spin on the ball and sent it just wide of the right post. With a little luck, Hobart's Carlo Stanford got control of the ball when Allan Samuels tried to sneak it across the goal line. Darin Bowling's late challenge caught a Hobart's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Darin Bowling helped the player get up and apologised. The supporters of Hobart booed when Gotham City Athletic was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 87 match minutes in a wonderful position. Darin Bowling didn't get a good kick on the ball. Carlo Stanford didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when Gotham City Athletic's Allan Samuels shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 0-4 in the ordered_time% minute. When the final whistle went the supporters of Gotham City Athletic were delighted that their team had defeated the much more dominant Hobart side.