- Created on Tuesday, 20 September 2011 08:27
Our team was eliminated in the semi final of the Independence Cup from Xewkija Tigers. It was a well fought semi final but our boys will surely feel gutted as they dominated procedures for long stretches of the game. It was only in 3 minutes of the second half that our team lost composure after missing some good chances and also hit the cross bar found themselves 2-0 down and with a player less. Still our boys refused to throw the towel and kept trying. Edinson scored in from a fine move from Kenneth Mercieca and himself and the same Kenneth missed a glorious opportunity in from of goal after receiving from Edinson. In the final stages the referee Kevin Azzopardi gave the second direct red card to Chris Sciortino. He had given a straight red card to team captain Joseph Refalo for retaliation. The red card given to Chris was too harsh to say the least as it was Chris Camilleri who made contact with Chris Sciortino not the other way round. But good acting first in Joseph's case by Elton Vella and the later by Chris Camilleri won the day.Even with nine man the referee whistle found our team on the attack with the Tigers frantically throwing the ball up the field.
