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Tricksters defeated two times in the NFLL
In the two introductory matches Tricksters met the teams of Jižní Město and Slávia Praha. In the first game in the late Saturday afternoon Tricksters challenged Jižní Město. The beginning of the match looked really good, especially for Tricksters, as they were causing considerable troubles to “Jižňáci” and they took the lead with score 4:2. In the second half “Jižňáci” seized everything they got and took advantage of the number of players on their side bench. They exhausted Tricksters with running, who had only one player to swap. The final score of the match was 14:4 for Jižní Město.
In the second match in the Saturday morning Tricksters stood on the pitch against the team of Slávia Praha, that has had a lot to get back at Tricksters for the last season. “Slávisti” stepped better into the match with opening the score in the second minute of the match. They made a lead worth of three goals and so were in the lead 3:0. Up until the end of the first quarter Trickster were able to score only one goal. After the first quarter the score status hadn't changed much and “Slávisti” lead 5:1. Tricksters had got started a bit in the second quarter and started to score. In the beginning of the quarter Kováčik presented himself with a beautiful goal, that he shoved the opponent's goalie right in between his legs and so opened the road that followed the other Tricksters too. Two minutes after that Černák won recognition after a fatal mistake of the Slávia's defence and scored another goal. The score of the match was 5:3 for Slávia by then. However, Slávia briskly upheld their lead and scored another to goals into Tricksters' goal cage. By the end of the first half Černák diminished Slávia's lead to 7:4. In the second half Tricksters slowly, but surely started to breathe on Slávia's necks. After 40 seconds of the match Slávia scored and stretched their lead to 4 goals. After that Černák lessened the difference to 8:5. Right after him a half-beginner Martin Božek achieved to score a goal after a nice pass from Jaroslav Gregor who had not hesitated for a second to pass to Božek who then with a mute astonishment and eyes shut tight sent the ball behind Slavia's goalie. With this he diminished Slávia's lead to 8:6. Then came another goal from Slávia, who again jumped away to a three-goal lead. During the 57th minute of the game happened an unseen thing. Trickster with a number 77 Lukáš Horecký after a lovely pass from Jaroslav Gregor achieved to score an uncompromising goal in between Slávia's goalie's legs and increased the score to 9:7. The match that had seemed lost for Tricksters right from the beginning started to gain some thrill. The opponents Slávia stepped into the last quarter quite nervous. Despite their nerves they managed to score right in the beginning of the quarter and set their lead by 4 goals again. However, right after that Tricksters brought all they got on the pitch and considerably troubled their opponent with two goals from Martin Kramár's lacrosse stick and the last goal of Černák. In spite the effort of Tricksters LT the match ended in favour of Slávia Praha who took the victory 12:10.
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Before the conclusion we need to praise the “young riffles” who have finally started to gain their courage in spite of all the traps of the games and they have slowly started to learn how to play, when to pass and where to shoot. ( Young riffles: Martin “Šproty” Božek, Lukáš “Gurt” Horecký, Jaroslav “Jago” Gregor)
More than any others I compliment Stanislav Mráz and the defenders, who despite of various injuries were capable of avert opponent's chances, to transit the ball, endanger opponent's goalie and mainly help the tired and unteachable attack. ( Defence: Stanislav “Stasho” Mráz, Adam Hamšík, Miroslav Šamo, Boris “Stanky” Stankovič, Pavol Dubeň). If Tricksters will managed to get rid of few minor mistakes, a very successful trip to Amsterdam awaits them.
