Official Cup

Fools Garden
Spectators: 187 (Terracing: 141, Seating: 43, VIP seats: 3) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Frīdis Smukais got the match started through his kick off. An unexpectedly hard shot by Frīdis Smukais in the 4th minute of play forced Hallands Riviera's goalkeeper Viktor Blanck to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. A collision led to GAUJA getting a freekick after 7 minutes play. Sigmunds Sarkovics hit a great ball. Patrik Lundberg charged in rather forcefully in the 14th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Patrik Lundberg the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. After a rather tough play, Hallands Riviera's Patrik Lundberg got a free kick in the 14th minute. GAUJA's Brencis Dermans played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Dennis Ahlbeck in the 18th minute of play. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Rinalds Brencsons in the 19th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Viktor Blanck saved Hallands Riviera from getting behind. If Herberts Mendziņš had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 20th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Ulrik Holmgren hit a great freekick 21 minutes into the match. In the 26th minute Rinalds Brencsons shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Viktor Blanck saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Herberts Mendziņš received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 27th minute. Viktor Blanck tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. When the match clock showed 31 minutes, the score became 2-0 when Frīdis Smukais sped through Hallands Riviera's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Viktor Blanck. After 37 played minutes Rinalds Brencsons could catch the ball where he stood relatively free a bit outside the goal and without hesitation he completed 3-0 into the left cross. In the 40th minute Frīdis Smukais shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Viktor Blanck saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Viktor Blanck showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Frīdis Smukais in the 44th minute of the match. Hallands Riviera's Viktor Blanck proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 46th minute of the match, managed to save Hallands Riviera from getting a goal against them. If Rinalds Brencsons had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 48th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Af the end of the first half the score was 3-0. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Dennis Ahlbeck to strike the kick off in the second half. Viktor Blanck didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Frīdis Smukais went, in the 54th minute, to the upper right corner, 4-0 was the resulting score. Frīdis Smukais fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 56th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Viktor Blanck having to interfere. Viktor Blanck didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when GAUJA's Rinalds Brencsons shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 5-0 in the ordered_time% minute. A collision led to GAUJA getting a freekick after 64 minutes play. Edgars Rupeneits hit a great ball. Hallands Riviera's Viktor Blanck played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Frīdis Smukais in the 66th minute of play. When Dennis Ahlbeck fell near the penalty area in the 67th minute he thought he would be awarded a free kick. The referee ignored Hallands Riviera's protests and gave Dennis Ahlbeck a yellow card for diving instead. Dennis Ahlbeck hit a great freekick 67 minutes into the match. After 68 played minutes Hallands Riviera got a freekick which was hit by Patrik Lundberg. When the match clock showed 72 minutes, the score became 6-0 when Frīdis Smukais sped through Hallands Riviera's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Viktor Blanck. Viktor Blanck made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Frīdis Smukais in the 80th minute of play. In the 83rd minute, Herberts Mendziņš hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 85th minute, Romualds Sausais 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. Sigmunds Sarkovics took a chance and fired a shot far from the goal in the 93rd minute, but it turned out to be a dangerous situation for Viktor Blanck. Hallands Riviera's goalkeeper really had to stretch himself to stop the ball from crossing the goal line. Viktor Blanck made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Herberts Mendziņš in the 94th minute of play.