Results
 

Lucanos Locos (Pol)

3

V

2

Atletico Funk (Eng)

JK Silvertown (Eng)

2

V

0

Dickie Dogs (Eng)

 

We were down to our final 4 teams in the Plate competition. The first Semi-Final would see Lucanos Locos versus Atletico Funk.

This was Atletico Funk's third appearance in the Plate at our events. At the 2018 Barcelona Fives they went out in the QF to Dragons (3-2). At the 2019 Budapest Fives they defeated Fiorentina Turner in the QF (2-0) before a 2-1 SF defeat to Deportivo Dooradoyle. Today they had defeated Cheesecake FC (4-1) in the QF and were looking to reach their first Plate Final.

Lucanos Locos had finished 5 points ahead of Atletico Funk in Group A earlier today which included a 3-0 win to Lucanos Locos when the teams met face to face. Daniel Kuty opened the scoring for Lucanos in this semi-final and it looked like it might be a straightforward repeat of the group game. Atletico Funk had improved since then though and levelled the tie thanks to Alex Jones who scored for the third game in a row. Jon Bone then turned the game on its head as Atletico Funk lead 2-1.

Lucanos Locos were in danger of heading out but they recovered the situation when Daniel Kuty's second of the game squared things up at 2-2. Should the game end level we would require a penalty shoot-out but a late winner would make that redundant. Pawel Orzechowski scored the winner in the Quarters and he was on target again to score the winner in the Semis. Lucanos Locos won it 3-2. It was heartache for Atletico Funk who had been on a fine run with 3 wins in a row before this but they were out for this year.

 
 
 

Whilst Lucanos Locos were in the process of reaching the Plate Final on Pitch 1. Simultaneously, JK Silvertown and Dickie Dogs were making their bid to reach the Plate Final against each other on Pitch 2.

JK Silvertown were yet to reach a final in our events having lost two Semi-Finals in our tournaments but both of those were in the Cup at Open Age level. That should make them well qualified to reach a debut final here in Barcelona. Dickie Dogs as we discovered in the previous round had three Plate Runners-up finishes in these tournaments. They needed to win this to give them a shot at righting that particular wrong.

JK Silvertown were one of the form teams in the event at the moment and there was a growing belief in the camp. Dickie Dogs had been one of the stand out performers today – where's your money?

If you'd backed JK Silvertown then you'd be collecting your winnings. They'd won 4-0 in the last round with 4 goals from Chris Wright. Wright was the man of the moment again as he put JK Silvertown 1-0 up. The game was still in the balance but Wright was on target once more. Not only did it put JK Silvertown 2-0 up but it also took his personal tally for the tournament to 10 goals and to 29 goals in 3 tournaments with us.

It was a sensational record but it was not just about goals for JK Silvertown as Tony Varghese had just kept his second clean sheet in a row and conceded just 2 in their last 5 games.

Dickie Dogs had been superb today but their tournament was now over. They would celebrate their performance on Saturday evening with a team meal where David Garcia Gallego was voted their player's player of the tournament.

 
 
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