Europa versus Office 2-2
Office versus Silja Europa, Thursday 11th of May at Kalev stadium (Tallinn) – kick off 10:00 local time. This is the first game of group B of the Tallink Cup 2017.
It must be mentioned, that because of the rerouting of the ships team Europa is former team of Baltic Queen. These teams have met in the football field two times, where team of Europa has won both times. Office team, what is consisting players from the land organizations, mainly from Finland and Estonia, has always reached to playoffs and won the bronze medals in 2014. Their seamen opponent reached to fourth place last year. The opposition land versus sea is always interesting and including certain principal charm.
The game was strong and open fight starting from the beginning. Europa opened the score, where the opponent’s goalkeeper did lethal mistake and no problem to score for striker from the sea Stepanov. Not long after that Office did good-looking movement and passing and their striker Tuli scored beautiful goal. Before the half time whistle Europa with excellent gross over to the left and with some skillful tribling their striker Stepanov scored again. Haft time score 2:1 for Europa. In the beginning of second half in front of the opponent’s goal Office did good grossing pass to their striker Tuli, who scored with no problem. Strong and equal battle continued, where both had some excellent moments, but no goals any more. Allinall good equal battle on beautiful open football with lot of moments to enjoy and the score on the board surely was fair result.
Final score Office versus Silja Europa 2:2 (half time 1:2). Equal and good game, what is showing also the result.
Goals:
Urmet Stepanov 8´ 1:0; 26` 2:1
Matias Tuli (Office) 15´ 1:1; 37` 2:2
Referee: Igor Kazakov
The next game of group B will be 22nd of May in Tallinn Europa versus Shuttle and third game of group B, Office versus Shuttle, will be held 7th June in Helsinki.
Taavi Tiivel
Tallink Cup
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