It is very difficult to start the second round in January-February. Matches scheduled for the calendar are usually 90% postponed. Therefore, almost March month and our main team on Sunday played just the second match. Two weeks ago our guys hosted the club HERCULES and played a 2-2 draw. And yesterday again a home match against the team PURMERSTEIJN. The first match with this team away ended with a score of 5-4 in favor of the opponent. After the first half, the opponent was 5-0 in the second half the guys gathered and scored four goals. And if it would be another 10 minutes, we could even even the score or even win, because the opponent physically completely surrendered. Even the coach of this team admitted that they were lucky that the match ended. That's the story was in the first match

As for the Sunday match, there is almost the same story. After the team left Gocha Sipki, who moved to Belgium on the team should have changed something. Therefore, the coach of the team looked at how the match was played against HERCULES and decided to change a lot in the team, starting from the positions on the field and ending with the reboot of the team. This means that the team will be invited to new players who can attend training and possibly play until the end of the season. But about this later. Now about the Sunday match. The match was caused by 18 players. There were no brothers Maciejewsi, who left for a week in Poland. Thus, in the starting lineup came out: Goalkeeper Sebastian Kanty, the central defenders Tsvetlen Dimov and Vlad Graur, on the right Roman Todello and on the left Vitaliy Holets. Central midfielders Robert Rostovtsev and Arthur Kanty, right Dmitriy Iljasevics and left Evgeniy Zaicev. Attacking midfielder Sylvester Gata and in the attack Robert Gurjan. Substitutes Ruslan Ismailov, Ruslan Davydov, Tomas Abramczyk, Timur Semash, Ako Urazalin, Pavel Liholetov and Ivan Subotjalo.

From the first minutes we begin to control the game and already in the 2nd minute Iljasevics makes a hinged transfer and Arthur Kanty shoot with the head and checks for the strength of the goalkeeper. But the ball flies right into the hands of the goalkeeper. In the first ten minutes our guys attack and Robert Gurjan takes aiming three good shots on the goal, but the ball passes just past the goal. Also a good position to hit have Rostovtsev, but his shot was not strong and the goalkeeper calmly seized the ball. In turn, the opponent also make two attacks, where Vlad Graur is very good and confidently worked in defense. In one episode, the referee could even appoint a penalty, but carried it. But in the 12th minute Rostovtsev takes the game and makes an excellent transfer to Gurjan, which is ahead of the defender and sends the ball to a distant corner. The score is 1: 0. But not for long we were happy after four minutes the guests are comparing the score. There was both an error in defense and a slightly insecure goalkeeper's exit. In a word, the score is 1: 1. And again we create a moment. Zaicev almost goes one on one with the goalkeeper and does not get into the goal. At the 20th minute we have a replacement. The field is left by Dmitriy Iljasevics, who did not enter the game as it should, but Pavel Liholetov comes out to play instead. At the 26th minute Liholetov makes an excellent transfer to Gurjan, which goes one on one with the goalkeeper and scores a beautiful goal, but after negotiations between the main arbiter and the side, the ball is not counted, fixing the position "Offside". But in fact it was a clean goal and there was no offside. Until the end of the first half, we had a few more moments. Two good shot still on the account of Gurjan and once well struck Rostovtsev and Liholetov, but it was very close but not on target. And the most dangerous moment was in the 43rd minute, when in just a few seconds the goalie punched Arthur Kanty and Gurjan and Zaicev, but the ball did not go into the goal. The guests also had a moment, but our goalkeeper Sebastian Kanty beautifully in the fall hit the ball to the side. Teams go to the break with a score of 1: 1.

The second half began. In our team there are no changes. While no substitutions. The first dangerous moment at our gate. The attacker's exit to a comfortable position for the strike and for some reason our goalkeeper comes out of the gate. And happiness is on our side. The attacker punches in an empty net and the ball passes the bar. All sighed with relief .... And after a minute or rather in the 49th minute, we create a dangerous moment, which goes into the goal. At first, Arthur Kanty punches in the spotlight, but the goalkeeper beats and the ball gets to Rostovtsev, who blows the ball from the toe into the "nine". 2: 1. We had no time to rejoice as the score became 2: 2 on the 51st minute. Error in the centrum area. The player freely accepted the ball and struck meters from the 22nd and no one blocked this blow. At the 55th minute we have a replacement. The field is left by Sylvester Gata and Ivan Subotjalo comes in. Subotjalo makes a pair in the center of defense with Graur and Dimov moving to the position of the central midfielder. In just a minute, a great moment has Gurjan, he goes to a good position, but punches straight into the hands of the goalkeeper. Hurried with a blow, he could have done a couple of meters with the ball. In the 60th minute, another replacement for us. Zaicev leaves the field and Ako Urazalin goes to play the position of the right-back. Roman Todello passes to the position behind the forward. The opponent began to own the ball more and in the 66th minute after the mistake of Vitali Holets, who missed his player and did not continue to follow him, the opponent comes forward 2: 3. And immediately after a few seconds the score increases to 2: 4. And again the same error in the central zone in midfield, again they did not cover the player and gave him to shot. Yes, the situation is not the best. And the coach goes to the next step. Removes from the game immediately the two defenders Vitali Holets and Ako Urazalin and instead of them on the field come Ruslan Davydov and Tomas Abramchik. Davydov takes the position of the central defender along with Graur and Subotjalo while Abramchik is a pair in the attack of Gurjan. And in just five minutes makes a reverse replacement. Removes from the field Abramchik who has problems with speed and releases Timur Semash. And it worked. Our guys have added in speed and the contender has nestled close to the gate. And on the 77th minute a beautiful kick from outside the penalty Liholetov from the bar goes into the goal. 3: 4. And the guys got extra forces. Siege of the opponent's gate began, but only the final stage was limping. And now the 90th minute of the match. We serve a corner. And as in the last match, Roman Todello becomes the hero of the last minute. He punches with his head and make the score 4: 4. And immediately the final whistle sounds. Again, not enough minutes to score the winning goal.

It was very pleasant that Robert Gurjan after five and a half seasons, for the first time played in his position the central striker, on which he played the first and second season. Where in these two incomplete seasons he scored more than 60 goals. And on Sunday he played for the first time and played a very good match. And scored a goal, even two, but one was not counted and played very useful for the team. Also I want to mention Roman Todello, who two times in a row saves our team two goals scored in 90 minutes. And also played a good match at the position of right-back. The rest all played an excellent match and today on the field was at least a team game. Well, in the second round of the championship, so far we have no victories, but it should be noted that there are no defeats either. We will try to show in the next game that we are able to play even better and the team is just beginning to be built. Good luck everyone!

Photo: Cees van Hoogdalem