St Georges Girls Tournament: U-11 section

Ambrit had three teams in today's tournament at St George's and two of them played in the u-11 section - Ambrit 'A' coached by Ms Wilson with players from Primary and Ambrit 'B' coached by Mr Corcoran (filling in for Mr Gianluca who was busy with the older girls) with players from Grade 6.
Ambrit 'B' got off to a poor start, losing their first three games. But, all credit to them for working hard and then bouncing back with two victories to win 3rd place!
A big thank you to Aekavira who played in goal all morning and improved steadily, making a series of fine saves in the last two games. Sophie and Emily were solid in defence and Andrea and Ran never sopped chsing balls all morning. Margherita brought a touch of class to the attacking play and Eli finished off a fine morning's work with the winning goal in the final.

Ambrit 'B' results
St George's 'A' 4-1 Ambrit 'B' (Margherita)
Ambrit 'A' 3-2 Ambrit 'B' (Andrea, Ran)
Southlands 5-2 Ambrit 'B' (Andrea, Ran)
St George's 0-3 Ambrit 'B' (Margherita, Ran, Ran)

Final (3rd place)

Ambrit 'A' 4-5 Ambrit 'B' (Margherita, Andrea, Margherita, Ran, Eli)

BOYS SOCCER: Ambrit 4-6 DS Roma

Great start for Ambrit when Marco hooked in a ball on the volley from a corner on the right after only one minute. But DSR got the ball on the ground and equalised with a flowing passing movement after 4 minutes. The Germans continued to play the better football, pulling Ambrit's defenders out of position with some good movement and going 2-1, 3-1 and then 4-1 ahead after 15 minutes of play.
Approaching half time, Ambrit came back into the game and Josh pushed a shot wide when he might have scored but Stuart made it 4-2 at half time with a powerful shot into the corner.
The second half started badly for Ambrit when the Germans played their attacker through on Christian who was forced into handling the ball outside the area to prevent a goal and was sent off by Referee Corcoran.
Ambrit played the remainder of the match one man short and showed great spirit to keep themselves in the game. Marco went into goal and did very well and Mattia redoubled his efforts in midfield and seemed to be everywhere. Jonny played very well all through the game too, showing good positional sense and timing his passes well. Luca also had a good game and gave everything in the second half.
DSR made it 5-2 and 6-2 when Ambrit attacking moves broke down in midfield and let them in, but Mattia made the score respectable with two goals in the last 6 minutes.
MAN OF THE MATCH: Mattia

Barcelona 2 - 1 Siviglia

Un match teso e vibrante (anche per il gran freddo), ben impostato da entrambe le formazioni ed equilibrato sino alla fine, dopo l'iniziale vantaggio siglato da Giulia (in prestito al Siviglia) e la risposta di Mallika prima dello scadere. Nel secondo tempo tanta grinta e tanta corsa, fino alla zampata finale di Francesca che ha raccolto un cross di Mallika colpendo al volo la sfera e infilandola all'angolino. Il Barcelona si conferma squadra da battere per chiunque voglia vincere questa edizione dell'Intramural!

PLAYER OF THE MATCH POINTS: Carolina 6, Maria 3, Francesca 3, Mallika 3, Andrea 2, Orsola 1, Penelope 1, Emily 1, Anastasia 1, Lucrezia 1.

Roma 5-0 Milan

A defensive error in the first half let in Alex dF for the first goal and opened the floodgates to a big win for i giallorossi.
Alex scored the first with his left foot and added a second later on with his right to move clear at the top of the Capocannoniere classification.
Ale P, to the joy of his innumerable fans, added two more goals while Milan continued to waste opportunities at  the other end, Luca and Joshua shooting from too far out to seriously threaten Giacomom in goal. The rout was completed by Marco who banged in a fifth with the last kick of the game. Both teams qualify for the semi-finals. All eyes now turn to next Tuesday's crucial match between Lazio and Napoli to decide the last semi-finalist.
BEST PLAYER: Marco 5, Ale P 5, Giovanni 4, Matteo 4, Giacomo 1, Michael 1, William 1

Real Madrid 0 - 0 Barcelona

Un match intenso e ben giocato dalle due formazioni forse più talentuose del campionato femminile. Molti contrasti, molta corsa, ma poche occasioni davvero ghiotte per mettere a segno il colpo del KO.
L'inserimento poi di alcune giocatrici da altre squadre ha dato alla partita la reale dimensione di quanto il calcio femminile all'Ambrit sia cresciuto e possa crescere ancora: Garda stiamo arrivando!

PLAYER OF THE MATCH POINTS: Valentina 4, Mallika 3, Giulia 2, Maria 1, Fatou 1, Margarita 1

Valencia 1-0 Siviglia

It was a lively game today between Oroloa's Siviglia, spearheaded by a tireless Maria Flavia, and Greta's Valencia, led by an unbeatable Sofia in defense. Only a quick goal just after hafl time, scored with a lovely shot from 15m by Ran, separated the sides.
BEST PLAYER: Sofia 6, Maria Flavia 4, Lara 3, Ran 2, Greta 2, Eilidh 1, Orsola 1, Andrea 1, Emily 1

BOYS' SOCCER: Marymount 4-4 Ambrit

Ambrit led this game by 3-0 at one point should have won it, but some lapses in concentration and hesitancy in defense allowed the home team to salvage a draw. Early in the game, Joao played an excellent long pass to Alex dF but Alex's shot was wide. However in a photocopy of the same move two minutes later, Alex shot home and Ambrit took the lead. Marymount attacked relentlessly and Ambrit continued to play on the break. Good clearances from Joao found runners from midfield and, after 15 minutes, Joshua passed to Luca and Luca made it 2-0. Luca made it 3-0 shortly afterwards and Ambrit seemed to be cruising. But Marymount were making chances too and, just before half time, they scrambled first one goal and then a second. Half time: 3-2.

Zahir came in for Lorenzo at half time, Octavio for Christian, Filippo for Giovanni and Noah I for Luca. Filippo stabilized the fence and had an excellent game. Ambrit almost went 4-2 ahead when Alex dF hit the bar with an excellent free kick. Then, after 17 minutes of the second half, Marymount equalized. Luca came back on and scored again giving Ambrit a 4-3 lead to defend for the last 5 minutes. They nearly did it but then, in the last few seconds, in almost perfect darkness, Marymount took a free kick quickly and scrambled the equalizer.

TEAM: Christian (Octavio); Joao (Capt), Jiaqi, Filippo (Giovanni); Alex dF, Lorenzo (Zahir), Luca (Noah I); Joshua. 

MAN OF THE MATCH: Filippo

Real Madrid - Sevilla 1-1

Un bel pareggio che accontenta tutte e due le squadre. Una bella partita in cui le difese hanno giocato un ruolo importante, specie nel Sevilla, dove Priscilla ha demolito quasi tutti i tentativi madrileni di arrivare la tiro, e quando non lo ha fatto lei ci ha pensato una solida Lucrezia. Il gol di Angelica, bellissimo, è stato il frutto di una mischia su cui nulla ha potuto il nostro "portierone". Bello anche il gol del Sevilla, con un'azione insisitita di Maria Flavia, ormai sempre più leader della squadra.

Scorers: Maria Flavia, Angelica

Best Player Points:
Priscilla 3, Giulia 2, Angelica 2, Margarita 2, Miranda 1, Ginevra 1, Lucrezia 1, Orsola 1, Maria Flavia 2.

Lazio 3-1 Inter

Scorers:
Lazio - Tommaso V, Noah I, Ramnath
Inter - Francesco R
POINTS: Tommaso V 4, Noah I 3, Ramnath 2, Francesco R 2, Christian 2, Francisco 2, Jacopo M 2, Stuart 1, Lorenzo 1, Riccardo 1, Filippo T 1,

Lazio 1-1 Juventus

A scrappy game saw Lazio take the lead with a scrappy goal when Filippo's high shot confused Jiaqi in the Juve goal: 1-0 at half time.
Juve recovered in the second half: Jonathan equalised with a good shot from the right after receiving from a quickly-taken corner and i bianconeri might well have stolen all three points but for an in-form Tommaso V between the sticks.
BEST PLAYER POINTS: Tommaso V 3,  Jonny 3, Sam 2, Filippo T 2, Luca R 2, Noah G 2, Umberto 1, Jiaqi 1, Lorenzo 1, Noah I 1, Riccardo 1, Tommaso R 1, Guerrino 1