Galaxy won 3:2 Princess

Wednesday 13th of June was held the second game in group C of the Tallink Cup 2012. Baltic Princess versus Galaxy in Kaknäs stadium (Stockholm) – kick off 12:00 local time.

Princess has already played in beginning of June their first game in this year's tournament against Europa, where they lost the game 1:3. Therefore it would be vital for them to win this game and save at least small chance to go through from group C to semi-finals. In general group C is very strong, where all the teams are coming from the biggest ships in our fleet, but on the same time it's very difficult to arrange the games, as the traffic schedule of the vessels is very busy. Also the last year's tournament winner Silja Europa is playing in this group and there is no reason to believe that they are less strong team than last year. It must also mentioned, that Galaxy and Princess haven't played against each other before.

The game itself in general was good fight and quite equal. Teams captains agreed to play shorter time 35+35 minutes. In the beginning Galaxy pressed more and scored already on the seventh minute and second goal for Galaxy came from penalty on the 28th minute. Princess had their chances and managed before the half time whistle to score also one. On the second half Galaxy started also good, where after ten minutes the score was 3:1 for them. After that Princess moved their game more up and pressed as they can, and managed to score another goal, but it was not enough. It must be mentioned, that Jonny Olander from Galaxy earned two yellows, which equals the red card according to the rules, which means that he cannot play against Europa in the last game of this group.

Final score for Galaxy 3:2 (half time 2:1).

Goals:
Jonny Olander (Galaxy) 7´ 1:0
Fredrik Ljung (Galaxy) 28´ 2:0
Ingvar Kronström (B.Princess) 31´ 2:1
Annes Aganovic (Galaxy) 45´ 3:1
Roman Kljutsivski (B.Princess) 62´ 3:2

Cards:
Carlo Kask (B.Princess) – yellow
Patrik Schrey (Galaxy) – yellow
Jonny Olander (Galaxy) – yellow+yellow = red

MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the game was Roman Kljutsivski (B.Princess).

Referee: Ferit Us

In group C now the game between Galaxy and Europa will solve the winner of this group – who is going through to semi-finals. The exact game dates shall be announced in coming days. Hotels team is already waiting in the semi-final for the winner from group C.

Taavi Tiivel
Tallink Cup