Serenade versus Romantika 1:1

Monday 4th of June was held the second game in the group A of the Tallink Cup 2012. Romantika versus Silja Serenade at Kaknäs stadium (Stockholm) – kick off 11:30 local time.

Romantika and Serenade has not met before in the football field in the Tallink Cup Tournament. Romantika didn't reach higher than second leg semi-final game in the last year´s tournament, where they lost to Baltic Queen. Serenade has already played their first game in this year's tournament in the group A against Baltic Queen with the result of tie 2:2. This means that everything is still very open in group A, where all three teams have chance to fight and go through to semi-finals.

Game itself was equal and real fight from both teams. Captains of the teams agreed to play shorter time 35+35 minutes. The half-time ended in tie, with no goals 0:0. Second half of the game was more cranky, as quite many cards was given by referee, including red card for Valerijs Cernakovskis (Romantika), who cannot play therefore the next game against Baltic Queen. Serenade opened first the score, but Romantika managed some minutes before the final whistle to score the equalizer.

Final score Serenade versus Romantika 1:1 (half time 0:0).

Goals:
Mats Klausen (Serenade) 52´ 1:0
Artur Pinka (Romantika) 67´ 1:1

Cards:
Juuso Ollila (Serenade) – yellow
Niko Torvela (Serenade) – yellow
Pekka Maisonen (Serenade) – yellow
Valerijs Cernakovskis (Romantika) – red

MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the game was Artur Pinka (Serenade).

Referee: Jari Raminen

As mentioned above, everything is still very open in group A. All three in group A (Romantika, Serenade, Queen) have chance to go through to semi-finals. This all will be solved in the last game in this group – Baltic Queen versus Romantika (the game date will be announce in coming days).

Taavi Tiivel
Tallink Cup