Hotels ready to play for the medals
Tallink Hotels versus Silja Symphony - this is the second game of quarterfinals of Tallink Cup 2017 - Tuesday 13th of June at Kaknäs stadium (Stockholm) kick off 12:30 local time.
Hotels made to playoffs from group D as a first of their group and Symphony continued from group A as a second. This QF game place was decided by the coin flip and fortune favored this time Symphony and Hotels therefore needed to travel to Stockholm. These teams have never played against each other during the 7 years tournament history. Symphony has shown very good games this year and is very eager to play finally for the medals. Hotels have reached in four years to the medals fight and have their name in the Hall of Fame from 2014.
Windy and rainy weather conditions in the game day in Stockholm, but players don’t mind this, as concentration for the game is much more important. Game started with good equal battle from both sides. More ball movement in the beginning by Symphony with some scoring moments, but the defense line and goalkeeper of Hotels did their job well and eliminated all attacks from Sweden. Then Hotels started to more and more effectively to build up their game which resulted quite many opportunities to score. Some minutes before half time whistle with 3 excellent passes started from the defense line to midfield and then skillfully to the opponents goal area and midfielder Rannamaa scored beautiful goal for Hotels. Really impressive scheme and goal! Half time Hotels leading 1:0. Second half the equal battle continued, but with some mistakes by Symphony`s defense line and Hotels right wing Kokorevics cut the ball in between and it was enough to use this opportunity and scored 2:0 for Hotels. Then Hotels pulled back to defense to hold their castle and lead and therefore the last 15 minutes of the game was strong pressure by Symphony as eager to score and equalize the numbers in the score table. Moment after moment, wave after wave, but no luck and not enough for Symphony and Hotels walls hold their positions against these aggressive and quite skillful attacking waves. Finally the end game whistle by referee and what a joy for Hotels guys after this hard and equal fight. Symphony played really well, but this time it was not enough and the quite disciplined team work and play by Hotels did its job.
Final score Tallink Hotels versus Silja Symphony 2:0 (half time 1:0). Well played by Hotels and now ready to play for the medals.
Goals:
Krister-Kaspar Rannamaa (Hotels) 32´ 1:0
Armands Kokorevics (Hotels) 48´ 2:0
Referee: Jari Raminen
Hotels joining Victoria to final four. We must wait the last two quarterfinals: Europa-Serenade and Galaxy-Shuttle. Hotels team will fight in the semifinal with the winner of Galaxy-Shuttle game. We all bow for Symphony for good games this year and please hold your flags high and see you again next year!
Taavi Tiivel
Tallink Cup
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