Europa won 3:1 Princess

Tuesday 5th of June was held the first game in group C of the Tallink Cup 2012. Baltic Princess versus Silja Europa in Kalev stadium (Tallinn) – kick off 10:30 local time.

Europa as a winner of Tallink Cup 2011 is naturally one of the favorites also in this year's tournament, as their players list is more or less the same as last year. Princess and Europa met last season in the semi-finals, where Europa won the game in quite big score 7:2 (half time 3:2). Anyway, this was last year, and for sure Princess wants to show to their Finnish colleagues, that they have much prettier and stronger team/ship. It must be mentioned, that in group C is quite difficult to arrange the games and collect the teams, as all 3 ships have very busy traffic schedule.

The game itself in general was quite equal, where both teams had many excellent chances to score. It must be mentioned, that the teams captains agreed to play shorter time 35+35 minutes. On the 6 minutes Princess earned a penalty, but unfortunately they missed it. Europa scored in the end of first half 2 times, so after the half time whistle the score was for Europa 2:0. Also on the second half Baltic Princess had excellent chances to score and finally the made their goal of honor, but it was not enough as Europa was leading with 3 goals. In total very enjoyable and fair game from both sides.

Final score for Silja Europa 3:1 (half time 2:0).

Goals:
Kushtrim Rama (Europa) 28´ 1:0
Kushtrim Rama (Europa) 35´ 2:0
Emil Ehrman (Europa) 53´ 3:0
Kaido Kaunissaar (B.Princess) 60´ 3:1

Cards:
Aivar Lahemaa (B.Princess) – yellow
Marko Laine (Europa) – yellow
Sakari Blomgren (Europa) – yellow

MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the game was Kushtrim Rama (Europa).

Referee: Igor Kazakov
Field Marshall: Taavi Tiivel

In group C both Europa and Galaxy must play with Galaxy to solve the winner of this group. The exact game dates shall be announced in coming days, but as mentioned above, the schedules of the all 3 ships are very busy for the arrangement of the games. Hotels team is already waiting in the semi-final for the winner from group C.

Taavi Tiivel
Tallink Cup