Official Cup

Vale of Knights
Spectators: 167 (Terracing: 126, Seating: 38, VIP seats: 3) Deng Zheng Ke made the kick off and thus started the match. In the 6th match minute, Ditalent.F.C. was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Deng Zheng Ke to maneuver through the defense. Brendan Otto succeeded in the game's 8th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 1-0. Brendan Otto's late challenge caught a Ditalent.F.C.'s player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Brendan Otto helped the player get up and apologised. In the 15th match minute, Black Knights FC was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Brendan Otto to maneuver through the defense. Trenton Call made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Dirk McQueen in the 17th minute of play. Brendan Otto succeeded in the game's 19th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 2-0. 22 minutes into the match, Ditalent.F.C.'s goalkeeper Haimon Moraitopoulos had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Ari Holcomb. When the match had gone on for 24 minutes, Ari Holcomb put it in 3-0 from a short distance just to the right of Haimon Moraitopoulos. Haimon Moraitopoulos showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Brendan Otto, who was totally free with the ball in the 28th minute. After 32 minutes of play, Ditalent.F.C.'s Deng Zheng Ke made it 3-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Trenton Call was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 34th minute, Brendan Otto hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Ari Holcomb could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 41st minute of the match, but Haimon Moraitopoulos made a huge save. An unexpected shot in the 42nd minute by Ari Holcomb got the crowd on their feet, but to their dismay it went out on the left side. Ari Holcomb recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 44th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. After some fancy dribbling in the 47th minute, Deng Zheng Ke managed to get in a good position for a shot. Ditalent.F.C.'s supporters rose to their feet, but Deng Zheng Ke was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Trenton Call breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Af the end of the first half the score was 3-1. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Brendan Otto to make the kick off. Haimon Moraitopoulos showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Brendan Otto in the 51st minute of the match. Brendan Otto scored 4-1 in the 56th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Haimon Moraitopoulos, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. After some careless play in the Ditalent.F.C. defense, Ari Holcomb kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Haimon Moraitopoulos. The Ditalent.F.C. fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Haimon Moraitopoulos should have stopped the shot. 63 minutes into the match, Deng Zheng Ke notched a goal, 5-2, to the right of Black Knights FC's Trenton Call. Trenton Call was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Brendan Otto in the 69th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Haimon Moraitopoulos saved Ditalent.F.C. from getting behind. Black Knights FC were awarded a corner in the 73th minute after Ditalent.F.C.'s defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. George Cao Xiao took the corner. The audience was convinced that Brendan Otto's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Haimon Moraitopoulos was relentless in the 74th minute of the game. In the 78th match minute, Ditalent.F.C. was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Wendell Young to maneuver through the defense. Haimon Moraitopoulos made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Brendan Otto in the 80th minute of play. Black Knights FC's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by George Cao Xiao in the 81st minute. A nice corner shot did that George Cao Xiao got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Haimon Moraitopoulos quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. In the 83rd minute, Brendan Otto ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Haimon Moraitopoulos was frozen by the shot and now it was 6-2. Ari Holcomb recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 88th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. An unexpectedly hard shot by Brendan Otto in the 94th minute of play forced Ditalent.F.C.'s goalkeeper Haimon Moraitopoulos to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. When the referee ended the match the Black Knights FC players were able to celebrate. They had won a fair victory and recieved the ovations of their fans.