A great victory for the Raiders

NEUBAUER AND SEGURA GIVE RAIDERS A RELEVANT VICTORY ON CORDILLERANA'S GROUND

Segura: "We've played a good game today. We've controlled it most of the time against an important team. We have to continue on this path."

Tripier arrives at Kattegat

Bienvenue, Tripier!

Pierre-Édouard Tripier is a French forward who comes from the Ligue II of Tanzania, and the estimated transfer  price was around 6.000.000 PYG.

The attack now is completed according to the demands of the German coach Harasser who was worried about the leave of former Raiders forward Dan Secelean who had had a great performance in the second hald of the last season.

Spoils of War

Maciel and Pizzi give Raiders their first three points in the league series

By Lena Franksdóttir, Aug 1st, 2022

Matchday 1 Season 62

Ekambuna: Liljebrant, Cuenca, Tellechea, Harperink, Rosenqvist, Villa Cano, Zerdzioch, Canavesi (2'), Fusillo, Careaga, Bernardes

Kattegat: Ocampos, Rogic, Sostegni, Habchi (Abdullat 60'), Meireles (Vingärd 27'), Neubauer, Tobeiner, Galbassini, Maciel (53'), Pizzi (63' 77'), Makkonen (Segura 64')

MVP: Pizzi (Kat)

Venue: Eju ape ekambu Stadium

Attendace: 61.543

Referee: Patrick Guebre (CIV)

Ekambuna's strategy, with a mixed-up team, consisted on concentrating on the flanks for their attacks, but Raiders' coach Harasser always has good plans to prevent their rivals actions. Counter-atacking seemed to be the preferred for Kattegat, so this was it. Kattegat, guided by a sparky Pizzi, Maciel and Makkonen mounted several counterattacks that punished Ekambuna's weak flanks, specially the left one.

But things did not start well for the Vikings, at the beginning of the game, the referee blew his whistle to award a controversial penalty to the home side. It was coolly slotted by Canavesi at the 2nd minute of the game.

Things got even worst for Kattegat when main central back Meireles was unable to continue due to a slight injury to his left knee and Vide Vingärd came in for the Mozambican defender.

Kattegat continued holding back and mounting counterattacks, but the action ended 1-0 for Ekambuna in the first half.

At the 53' everything started to go well for Kattegat, a free kick was both short and off target but it looked like a plan and the ball landed at the feet of Maciel who showed up absolutely unmarked in the box and scored the 1-1.

Ten minutes later, Pizzi, after a well-worked counterattack by Kattegat on the right, converted the 2-1. The home team fell into despair.

Harasser quickly moved the team and Alex Segura came in for Makkonen to form two solid lines of five players to shut the game down!

At the 77th Pizzi increased the visitor's lead by putting a volley away after a sweet pass from the right by Galbassini.

The match ended 3-1 for the Raiders. They took revenge as they fell 0-3 against Ekambuna in the last season in the 3rd round of Paraguay Cup.

"We knew this was going to be a tough match for us, they're a big team, they want to be back in the II division soon, but we were stronger in the game", affirmed Maciel.

German coach Harasser gave some words for KATTV after the game: "The plan we had was correctly executed. The guys had a wonderful performance. They always maintained the organization, cold mind and hot heart, and that's very important in this king of matches".

Meireles also spoke to the media: "It's a pitty. My first league game and I got off due to an injury, but I feel very glad for the team win. I'll get recovered soon, possibly for the next series game. I want to take part of the game at home with all our supporters there".