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the phantom · 07-22-2013, 05:19 PM

Group A at Valimar

The sun found its way over the top of the mighty Pelori and at last the second round of games was ready to begin in Valimar. The bells tolled once to announce the half-hour warning before kickoff—yes, the bells were ringing again. It didn’t take terribly long to get new ropes after they had been cut during the Valimar vs Barrow-Downs match, but the stadium caretakers were still mighty annoyed.

Everyone was quite certain that the culprits were Wights from The Barrow-Downs, but they didn’t leave any proof behind. “Today all maintenance areas, dressing areas, etc. will be under guard,” said one security official. “There will be no similar incident today.”

As Armenelos found in the first round, The Havens received solid support from the Valinoreans, and against The Barrow-Downs no doubt the crowd would be overwhelmingly against the Wights, particularly after their bit of vandalism. But the small section of Wights and their squad didn’t seem to mind, and looked eager to take the opportunity to annoy the stadium. During warm-ups whenever a Downs player spotted someone nearby in the crowd walking through an aisle with a full drink tray, they did their best to hit them with a ball. The first couple times were misses and people thought they were merely grossly inaccurate attempts at the goal, but then Saucepan Man kicked a beauty and struck an elf smack in the back of the head, causing him to spill his food and drinks all over the folks he was edging past in the row.

When SPM shouted in triumph and received enthusiastic high fives from teammates, the crowd realized what was going on and they were quite infuriated. A couple minutes later GwathWight saw a perfect opportunity and managed to knock a vendor down, causing quite a few bottles of wine to break. The near section of the stadium looked prepared to rush the field and take matters into their own hands, but it was game time and the refs asked for the players to take their positions.

As the match got underway it was clear to the spectators that the BDowns was doing a lot of talking, but they weren’t doing anything physical to get them in trouble with the refs. A couple of Havens players in particular seemed to be singled out for attention—Ar Zimrathan and Eriol couldn’t go anywhere without BDowns players getting right in their ear.

But The Havens were professionals and didn’t react, and began testing the defense of their opposition. Only a few minutes in Falastur found Earendil in the middle and he broke down the BDowns defense with a quick turn and pass to Cirdan who gave it right back, and only a correct guess by Alien in goal kept The Havens from taking the early lead. The Barrow-Wight and other defenders didn’t look concerned though—they knew coming in that they would have trouble containing Earendil and friends. And as the half rolled along it was clear that they planned for it, holding the ball for long periods of time and pulling back their forwards to help out with defense and possession. It was clear that they wouldn’t score playing like that, but neither would The Havens. BDowns was just trying to shorten the game.

Havens responded to BDown’s passivity by turning up their defensive pressure, and on offense they figured if things were going to be tough sledding they may as well go for some set pieces, hoping that the athleticism up front and their Numenorean height might yield a goal. And so they started purposefully earning corners—kicking it off of defenders and out of bounds instead of attempting to attack from the side. The tactic led to some wasted possession, but it also earned them a few opportunities, and sure enough it yielded results. On their second attempt Ar Zimrathan managed to get a clear header and forced a save, and then finally at minute 36 Cirdan put one nearly in and Earwen volleyed it back off the rebound. Havens had the lead!

As expected the bells rang in celebration, and the crowd felt much better indeed. It would satisfy them immensely to see these trouble-makers beaten.

When the second half started the crowd was expecting more of the same, but BDowns had a surprise in store, and on their first opportunity they played a long ball to SPM and dashed forward like maniacs in support. SPM brought it down brilliantly, stalled for just a second baiting his mark, then made the move past and sent one hanging up in the box. The mass rush had caught Havens off-guard and they were outnumbered in front of goal five to four, with WilWight and BarrowWight close behind. Mithrellas managed to get just the top of her head on the ball, but it went straight to Goldberry, and she immediately sent it at the left post. Amandil saved it brilliantly but couldn’t gather it in, and when Annael tried to clear it he was in too deep and surrounded, and the clearance was blocked across the goal face by Lalwende, and showing amazing reaction speed Bombadil stretched his big boot forward and redirected the ball into the net. It was tied!

The Havens supporters and Valinoreans groaned while the small Wight section cheered, and then to everyone’s surprise the bells started ringing! But it wasn’t the usual beautiful deep melodious booms, but rather more tinny and percussive, and no wonder—lone Wights around the top of the stadium were throwing rocks at the bells!

It took the security teams several minutes to round up and subdue the guilty, and while the crowd was paying attention to that the game on the field was going again. When the crowd finally paid attention again it looked like the game had reset back to the first half—apparently the Wights had forged their tie and were just going to keep it that way until near the end, back to the original plan. The Havens went back to work on offense, but they were trying a bit too hard it seemed, as they just didn’t look as clean and controlled as they were finishing the first half. And then to add to it all the talking (what on earth were they saying?) finally got to Ar Zimrathan and Imrazor, and just two minutes apart they both got carded for reacting aggressively, so now they couldn’t defend as aggressively.

Near the hour mark the BDowns changed their tactics back again. Earwen sent a long curving ball at the goal, but Lumpkin headed it away, and when it fell to Barrow-Wight he launched it high and across midfield. Olwe moved into position to receive it at his feet, but then realized that the entire Downs team was bearing down on him and may actually arrive before the ball, so he moved forward and headed it just before Goldberry could arrive. His header flew half the distance back to the goal, but unfortunately it was straight at GwathWight, and he boomed it forward again. Imrazor and Annael saw it too late and made a bad decision of moving the line up. If they had done so sooner they would’ve caught BDowns on the wrong side, but since they were late starting they released Bombadil, SPM, and Hookbill all behind them to face Amandil! The crowd hoped that the pass forward would be too tall or too hot to handle, but Bombadil caught it and slowed it with a deft touch, sent it over to Hookbill, and he made Amandil commit before sending it to SPM for the easy finish. The Barrow-Downs was up!

And again, the bells were being bombarded by naughty Wights, only there were more of them this time, and extra security had to be called upstairs to help apprehend the culprits, who led the guards on a merry chase. Meanwhile back on the field The Havens wasn’t looking as outraged as the crowd, but rather they seemed to appreciate the fight the opposition showed, and acknowledging that a worthy opponent was on the field seemed to steel their resolve and cause them to raise their game. The next ten minutes was just a clinic of spacing and ball movement and moving to open areas without the ball, and twice The Havens made BDowns sweat—once with a strong drive from Cirdan that went just wide, and again as Earendil found the seam only to be foiled last-second by Alien.

But The Havens could not be denied, and at last their star forward Earendil got the payoff he deserved off a nice cross from Falastur, and the game was level yet again. The crowd roared, happier than they had been since the first half. But the bells were silent. It turned out when extra security was called up to subdue the rock throwers, that left the bell ropes unguarded and yet again devious Wights had climbed up from below and cut them. (In fact that was probably the whole point of the rock-throwing in the first place—to give the bell-guards something else to worry about.)

The fans were annoyed again, and they grew only more annoyed as it was made obvious on the field that their team was at last slowing down, tired from the previous push, and somewhat unwilling to pressure the BDowns possession, perhaps concerned about another furious charge? At last the final whistle sounded and the fans half-heartedly applauded. They had gotten a point at least, but they had really hoped for more. Now Havens would have to defeat Valimar—the home team and true favorite for most of those in attendance.

Havens 2-2 Barrow-Downs
on target 7-5
tot shots 17-13
GOALS:
*36, 1-0 Earwen (Cirdan)
*48, 1-1 Bombadil (LalwendeMP)
*59, 1-2 SPM (Hookbill)
*71, 2-2 Earendil (Falastur)
YELLOW CARDS:
*BDowns- LalwendeMP, Hookbill
*Havens- Imrazor, Eriol, Falastur

The Havens fans and Wights streamed out and masses of Numenoreans replaced them, but the south side of the stadium stayed put—they had purchased double-session tickets. Most of the south-siders were Valinoreans that supported Valimar first then Havens, but here and there a Numenorean pocket could be found that simply wanted to see the first match as well. Once the stadium filled these Numenorean pockets gladly exchanged places with Valimar fans that found themselves in predominantly Numenorean sections, thus the stadium became nicely uniform, with Armenelos fans on the north and Valimar everywhere else.

Both sides were greeted enthusiastically—these were the clear group favorites after the first round, and particularly after the early game had resulted in a draw. If Armenelos or Valimar could claim a victory, they’d officially clinch a spot in the playoffs, and more than likely the right to host their first playoff match. There was definitely tension between the squads and fans, but things stayed respectful. They appreciated good play and sportsmanship enough to know that the respect was deserved.

As the match started it was soon clear that both sides were being careful. They trusted their discipline and intelligence, confident that they could keep the other side off the board so long as they didn’t make mistakes. And for the first half hour it seemed like they were correct, as neither side could make any headway. The best chance Valimar had was a long drive from Irmo that Tar Atanamir caught easily, and Armenelos only managed a couple headers that sprayed wide.

But knowledgeable Valimar fans were a bit worried, as those headers were won a little too easily, and too close to Manwe. The back line was getting out-jumped and muscled and couldn’t do enough to push Ar Pharazon and Ar Adunkhor away from where they intended to be. At the 40 minute mark it really got the attention of Manwe, as Tar Miriel curled in a beauty and Ar Adunakhor headed it perfectly, and only a finger-tip stretch from Manwe sent it off the post and away.

After that Namo retreated for the rest of the half and did his best to take on the forwards for Armenelos, and co-directing the defense with Manwe. During halftime Armenelos didn’t make any adjustments as really there hadn’t been time to see if the new defense was working better, but quickly into the second half it was obvious that Valimar was gaining ground. At 52 minutes Arien gained her first threatening look, as she took Vaire’s pass with a nice sideways first touch to get around Tar Calmacil and then held off Tar Telperien as she gave it a boot, but Tar Atanamir blocked it straight down and gathered it in.

The crowd was all a bundle of nerves, constantly rising out of their seats with a cheer only to have it die in their throats as they sat back down, and other times groaning and then sighing in relief as the other side had their turn. Both sides were playing skillfully, and the commentators were no doubt handing out compliments left and right.

Finally at the hour mark the scoreboard saw its first action—Tar Telemmaite appeared to look for the forwards and sent in a cross, but instead it bent farther out and to the opposite side for Elros, and the defense had sagged off of him towards the forwards leaving him clear. He sent a pinpoint header high and to the near post, and Manwe barely batted it away, but it ricocheted off Este and to Ar Pharazon, and he nudged it down and forward with his chest and kneed it between Namo and the diving Manwe to send Armenelos into the lead!

The Numenoreans began singing their ancient fight songs and the Valinoreans shook their heads. Armenelos already had the win over the Havens and was up a goal with 30 left against Valimar, and their remaining game was against the team picked to finish last. They were certainly in the best position, and if both of the home favorites were to advance Valimar would need to come back and do it fast.

And they certainly tried, opting for a more aggressive positioning and devoting Namo to supporting the attack again, but Elros ordered Armenelos to go on full defense and time-wasting mode, and it was tough sledding for the Ainur and their friends. The Numenoreans in the crowd debated the strategy, wondering if they could now catch Valimar with a counter if they were more aggressive, but most agreed that it was the right percentage play. Even if Valimar did manage to score once, surely they wouldn’t score twice, and a draw would be plenty good for Armenelos with only Barrow-Downs remaining on their schedule.

But the strategy was second-guessed quite a bit after the 70-minute mark when Namo nearly put one past Tar Atanamir, who was fortunately on top of his game. And then a bit later Ingwe managed to wrong-foot two defenders and took advantage by splitting them with a shot that skimmed just over the crossbar. While the Numenoreans were sweating, Valimar was more so, as close calls don’t equal goals, and time was ticking away.

At minute 85, just as Armenelos fans were starting to feel good, Valimar’s big off-season addition finally earned her paycheck. Arien received it from Ingwe a good 40 yards out, and she made to send it back, but instead turned suddenly and was past two defenders before they could register what she was up to. Tar Palantir was there to meet her but she angled right and rounded him with precision just as Telperien closed from the side. She then faked the shot to freeze the remaining defender and keeper then snapped her left foot and squeezed it between the post and Atanamir’s outstretched arms. Valimar had drawn level! And the bells were working again.

Arien wanted to push for the lead after that, but the rest of the team (and the stadium) thought it smart to just take the result as it was, and Armenelos seemed to agree. Both teams would leave with 4 points in group, sitting atop the standings and controlling their own destiny.

Armenelos 1-1 Valimar
on target 4-5
tot shots 12-14
GOALS:
*60, 1-0 ArPharazon (Elros)
*85, 1-1 Arien (Ingwe)
YELLOW CARDS:
*Armenelos- ArPharazon, ArGimilzor
*Valimar- Namo, Amarie

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GROUP A STANDINGS

Code:

---------  W-D-L   Pts  Score
Valimar    1-1-0   4    3-1
Armenelos  1-1-0   4    3-2
Havens     0-1-1   1    3-4
BDowns     0-1-1   1    2-4

LAST GAMES
Armenelos vs Barrow-Downs
Havens vs Valimar

07-22-2013, 05:19 PM	#23
the phantom Beloved Shadow Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Stadium Posts: 5,971	Group A at Valimar The sun found its way over the top of the mighty Pelori and at last the second round of games was ready to begin in Valimar. The bells tolled once to announce the half-hour warning before kickoff—yes, the bells were ringing again. It didn’t take terribly long to get new ropes after they had been cut during the Valimar vs Barrow-Downs match, but the stadium caretakers were still mighty annoyed. Everyone was quite certain that the culprits were Wights from The Barrow-Downs, but they didn’t leave any proof behind. “Today all maintenance areas, dressing areas, etc. will be under guard,” said one security official. “There will be no similar incident today.” As Armenelos found in the first round, The Havens received solid support from the Valinoreans, and against The Barrow-Downs no doubt the crowd would be overwhelmingly against the Wights, particularly after their bit of vandalism. But the small section of Wights and their squad didn’t seem to mind, and looked eager to take the opportunity to annoy the stadium. During warm-ups whenever a Downs player spotted someone nearby in the crowd walking through an aisle with a full drink tray, they did their best to hit them with a ball. The first couple times were misses and people thought they were merely grossly inaccurate attempts at the goal, but then Saucepan Man kicked a beauty and struck an elf smack in the back of the head, causing him to spill his food and drinks all over the folks he was edging past in the row. When SPM shouted in triumph and received enthusiastic high fives from teammates, the crowd realized what was going on and they were quite infuriated. A couple minutes later GwathWight saw a perfect opportunity and managed to knock a vendor down, causing quite a few bottles of wine to break. The near section of the stadium looked prepared to rush the field and take matters into their own hands, but it was game time and the refs asked for the players to take their positions. As the match got underway it was clear to the spectators that the BDowns was doing a lot of talking, but they weren’t doing anything physical to get them in trouble with the refs. A couple of Havens players in particular seemed to be singled out for attention—Ar Zimrathan and Eriol couldn’t go anywhere without BDowns players getting right in their ear. But The Havens were professionals and didn’t react, and began testing the defense of their opposition. Only a few minutes in Falastur found Earendil in the middle and he broke down the BDowns defense with a quick turn and pass to Cirdan who gave it right back, and only a correct guess by Alien in goal kept The Havens from taking the early lead. The Barrow-Wight and other defenders didn’t look concerned though—they knew coming in that they would have trouble containing Earendil and friends. And as the half rolled along it was clear that they planned for it, holding the ball for long periods of time and pulling back their forwards to help out with defense and possession. It was clear that they wouldn’t score playing like that, but neither would The Havens. BDowns was just trying to shorten the game. Havens responded to BDown’s passivity by turning up their defensive pressure, and on offense they figured if things were going to be tough sledding they may as well go for some set pieces, hoping that the athleticism up front and their Numenorean height might yield a goal. And so they started purposefully earning corners—kicking it off of defenders and out of bounds instead of attempting to attack from the side. The tactic led to some wasted possession, but it also earned them a few opportunities, and sure enough it yielded results. On their second attempt Ar Zimrathan managed to get a clear header and forced a save, and then finally at minute 36 Cirdan put one nearly in and Earwen volleyed it back off the rebound. Havens had the lead! As expected the bells rang in celebration, and the crowd felt much better indeed. It would satisfy them immensely to see these trouble-makers beaten. When the second half started the crowd was expecting more of the same, but BDowns had a surprise in store, and on their first opportunity they played a long ball to SPM and dashed forward like maniacs in support. SPM brought it down brilliantly, stalled for just a second baiting his mark, then made the move past and sent one hanging up in the box. The mass rush had caught Havens off-guard and they were outnumbered in front of goal five to four, with WilWight and BarrowWight close behind. Mithrellas managed to get just the top of her head on the ball, but it went straight to Goldberry, and she immediately sent it at the left post. Amandil saved it brilliantly but couldn’t gather it in, and when Annael tried to clear it he was in too deep and surrounded, and the clearance was blocked across the goal face by Lalwende, and showing amazing reaction speed Bombadil stretched his big boot forward and redirected the ball into the net. It was tied! The Havens supporters and Valinoreans groaned while the small Wight section cheered, and then to everyone’s surprise the bells started ringing! But it wasn’t the usual beautiful deep melodious booms, but rather more tinny and percussive, and no wonder—lone Wights around the top of the stadium were throwing rocks at the bells! It took the security teams several minutes to round up and subdue the guilty, and while the crowd was paying attention to that the game on the field was going again. When the crowd finally paid attention again it looked like the game had reset back to the first half—apparently the Wights had forged their tie and were just going to keep it that way until near the end, back to the original plan. The Havens went back to work on offense, but they were trying a bit too hard it seemed, as they just didn’t look as clean and controlled as they were finishing the first half. And then to add to it all the talking (what on earth were they saying?) finally got to Ar Zimrathan and Imrazor, and just two minutes apart they both got carded for reacting aggressively, so now they couldn’t defend as aggressively. Near the hour mark the BDowns changed their tactics back again. Earwen sent a long curving ball at the goal, but Lumpkin headed it away, and when it fell to Barrow-Wight he launched it high and across midfield. Olwe moved into position to receive it at his feet, but then realized that the entire Downs team was bearing down on him and may actually arrive before the ball, so he moved forward and headed it just before Goldberry could arrive. His header flew half the distance back to the goal, but unfortunately it was straight at GwathWight, and he boomed it forward again. Imrazor and Annael saw it too late and made a bad decision of moving the line up. If they had done so sooner they would’ve caught BDowns on the wrong side, but since they were late starting they released Bombadil, SPM, and Hookbill all behind them to face Amandil! The crowd hoped that the pass forward would be too tall or too hot to handle, but Bombadil caught it and slowed it with a deft touch, sent it over to Hookbill, and he made Amandil commit before sending it to SPM for the easy finish. The Barrow-Downs was up! And again, the bells were being bombarded by naughty Wights, only there were more of them this time, and extra security had to be called upstairs to help apprehend the culprits, who led the guards on a merry chase. Meanwhile back on the field The Havens wasn’t looking as outraged as the crowd, but rather they seemed to appreciate the fight the opposition showed, and acknowledging that a worthy opponent was on the field seemed to steel their resolve and cause them to raise their game. The next ten minutes was just a clinic of spacing and ball movement and moving to open areas without the ball, and twice The Havens made BDowns sweat—once with a strong drive from Cirdan that went just wide, and again as Earendil found the seam only to be foiled last-second by Alien. But The Havens could not be denied, and at last their star forward Earendil got the payoff he deserved off a nice cross from Falastur, and the game was level yet again. The crowd roared, happier than they had been since the first half. But the bells were silent. It turned out when extra security was called up to subdue the rock throwers, that left the bell ropes unguarded and yet again devious Wights had climbed up from below and cut them. (In fact that was probably the whole point of the rock-throwing in the first place—to give the bell-guards something else to worry about.) The fans were annoyed again, and they grew only more annoyed as it was made obvious on the field that their team was at last slowing down, tired from the previous push, and somewhat unwilling to pressure the BDowns possession, perhaps concerned about another furious charge? At last the final whistle sounded and the fans half-heartedly applauded. They had gotten a point at least, but they had really hoped for more. Now Havens would have to defeat Valimar—the home team and true favorite for most of those in attendance. Havens 2-2 Barrow-Downs on target 7-5 tot shots 17-13 GOALS: 36, 1-0 Earwen (Cirdan) 48, 1-1 Bombadil (LalwendeMP) 59, 1-2 SPM (Hookbill) 71, 2-2 Earendil (Falastur) YELLOW CARDS: BDowns- LalwendeMP, Hookbill Havens- Imrazor, Eriol, Falastur The Havens fans and Wights streamed out and masses of Numenoreans replaced them, but the south side of the stadium stayed put—they had purchased double-session tickets. Most of the south-siders were Valinoreans that supported Valimar first then Havens, but here and there a Numenorean pocket could be found that simply wanted to see the first match as well. Once the stadium filled these Numenorean pockets gladly exchanged places with Valimar fans that found themselves in predominantly Numenorean sections, thus the stadium became nicely uniform, with Armenelos fans on the north and Valimar everywhere else. Both sides were greeted enthusiastically—these were the clear group favorites after the first round, and particularly after the early game had resulted in a draw. If Armenelos or Valimar could claim a victory, they’d officially clinch a spot in the playoffs, and more than likely the right to host their first playoff match. There was definitely tension between the squads and fans, but things stayed respectful. They appreciated good play and sportsmanship enough to know that the respect was deserved. As the match started it was soon clear that both sides were being careful. They trusted their discipline and intelligence, confident that they could keep the other side off the board so long as they didn’t make mistakes. And for the first half hour it seemed like they were correct, as neither side could make any headway. The best chance Valimar had was a long drive from Irmo that Tar Atanamir caught easily, and Armenelos only managed a couple headers that sprayed wide. But knowledgeable Valimar fans were a bit worried, as those headers were won a little too easily, and too close to Manwe. The back line was getting out-jumped and muscled and couldn’t do enough to push Ar Pharazon and Ar Adunkhor away from where they intended to be. At the 40 minute mark it really got the attention of Manwe, as Tar Miriel curled in a beauty and Ar Adunakhor headed it perfectly, and only a finger-tip stretch from Manwe sent it off the post and away. After that Namo retreated for the rest of the half and did his best to take on the forwards for Armenelos, and co-directing the defense with Manwe. During halftime Armenelos didn’t make any adjustments as really there hadn’t been time to see if the new defense was working better, but quickly into the second half it was obvious that Valimar was gaining ground. At 52 minutes Arien gained her first threatening look, as she took Vaire’s pass with a nice sideways first touch to get around Tar Calmacil and then held off Tar Telperien as she gave it a boot, but Tar Atanamir blocked it straight down and gathered it in. The crowd was all a bundle of nerves, constantly rising out of their seats with a cheer only to have it die in their throats as they sat back down, and other times groaning and then sighing in relief as the other side had their turn. Both sides were playing skillfully, and the commentators were no doubt handing out compliments left and right. Finally at the hour mark the scoreboard saw its first action—Tar Telemmaite appeared to look for the forwards and sent in a cross, but instead it bent farther out and to the opposite side for Elros, and the defense had sagged off of him towards the forwards leaving him clear. He sent a pinpoint header high and to the near post, and Manwe barely batted it away, but it ricocheted off Este and to Ar Pharazon, and he nudged it down and forward with his chest and kneed it between Namo and the diving Manwe to send Armenelos into the lead! The Numenoreans began singing their ancient fight songs and the Valinoreans shook their heads. Armenelos already had the win over the Havens and was up a goal with 30 left against Valimar, and their remaining game was against the team picked to finish last. They were certainly in the best position, and if both of the home favorites were to advance Valimar would need to come back and do it fast. And they certainly tried, opting for a more aggressive positioning and devoting Namo to supporting the attack again, but Elros ordered Armenelos to go on full defense and time-wasting mode, and it was tough sledding for the Ainur and their friends. The Numenoreans in the crowd debated the strategy, wondering if they could now catch Valimar with a counter if they were more aggressive, but most agreed that it was the right percentage play. Even if Valimar did manage to score once, surely they wouldn’t score twice, and a draw would be plenty good for Armenelos with only Barrow-Downs remaining on their schedule. But the strategy was second-guessed quite a bit after the 70-minute mark when Namo nearly put one past Tar Atanamir, who was fortunately on top of his game. And then a bit later Ingwe managed to wrong-foot two defenders and took advantage by splitting them with a shot that skimmed just over the crossbar. While the Numenoreans were sweating, Valimar was more so, as close calls don’t equal goals, and time was ticking away. At minute 85, just as Armenelos fans were starting to feel good, Valimar’s big off-season addition finally earned her paycheck. Arien received it from Ingwe a good 40 yards out, and she made to send it back, but instead turned suddenly and was past two defenders before they could register what she was up to. Tar Palantir was there to meet her but she angled right and rounded him with precision just as Telperien closed from the side. She then faked the shot to freeze the remaining defender and keeper then snapped her left foot and squeezed it between the post and Atanamir’s outstretched arms. Valimar had drawn level! And the bells were working again. Arien wanted to push for the lead after that, but the rest of the team (and the stadium) thought it smart to just take the result as it was, and Armenelos seemed to agree. Both teams would leave with 4 points in group, sitting atop the standings and controlling their own destiny. Armenelos 1-1 Valimar on target 4-5 tot shots 12-14 GOALS: 60, 1-0 ArPharazon (Elros) 85, 1-1 Arien (Ingwe) YELLOW CARDS: Armenelos- ArPharazon, ArGimilzor Valimar- Namo, Amarie -------------------------------- GROUP A STANDINGS Code: --------- W-D-L Pts Score Valimar 1-1-0 4 3-1 Armenelos 1-1-0 4 3-2 Havens 0-1-1 1 3-4 BDowns 0-1-1 1 2-4 LAST GAMES Armenelos vs Barrow-Downs Havens vs Valimar __________________ the phantom has posted. This thread is now important. Last edited by the phantom; 07-23-2013 at 03:33 PM.