Hong Kong Soccer 7s: Day two fixtures and results; No trophy this year
Written by Dan on May 14, 2011
The young lions cruised through the group stage of the Hong Kong Soccer 7’s with the best record of all 16 teams; winning all three games, scoring nine and conceding none in the process. Andreas Weimann and Harry Forrester bagged four each and Jonathan Hogg grabbed the ninth.
You can see the full results from the group stage here.
The top two teams from each group have progressed to the Cup competition quarter finals tomorrow, Aston Villa will face Celtic. The losers from the quarter final stage will get a second bite of the cherry in the Shield competition.
The two bottom placed teams in each group will contest the Plate competition tomorrow.
Second round fixtures
| Hong Kong 7s 2011 Fixtures – Plate Knock Out Stage May 15th | |||||||||
| Stage | Date | Local | UK | Team 1 | Team 2 | ||||
| QF | 15/05 | 08:36 | 01:36 | Yau Yee League Select | 0 | – | 1 | Eastleigh | |
| QF | 15/05 | 08:54 | 01:54 | HKFC Captain’s Select | 0p | – | 0 | Hong Kong u18s | |
| QF | 15/05 | 09:12 | 02:12 | Singapore Cricket Club | 1 | – | 0 | HKFC | |
| QF | 15/05 | 09:30 | 02:30 | Fourway Rangers | 0 | – | 1 | Hong Kong u21s | |
| SF | 15/05 | 13:35 | 06:35 | Eastleigh | 0 | – | 2 | Singapore Cricket Club | |
| SF | 15/05 | 14:00 | 07:00 | HKFC Captain’s Select | 1 | – | 0 | Hong Kong u21s | |
| Final | 15/05 | 17:30 | 10:30 | HKFC Captain’s Select | 2p | – | 2 | Singapore Cricket Club | |
| Hong Kong 7s 2011 Fixtures – Shield Knock Out Stage May 15th | |||||||||
| Stage | Date | Local | UK | Team 1 | Team 2 | ||||
| SF | 15/05 | 15:15 | 08:15 | Citizen | 1 | – | 0 | Rangers | |
| SF | 15/05 | 15:40 | 08:40 | Aston Villa | 5 | – | 0 | Boca Juniors | |
| Final | 15/05 | 18:00 | 11:00 | Citizen | 1 | – | 0 | Aston Villa | |
| Hong Kong 7s 2011 Fixtures – Cup Knock Out Stage May 15th | |||||||||
| Stage | Date | Local | UK | Team 1 | Team 2 | ||||
| QF | 15/05 | 11:00 | 04:00 | Liverpool | 2 | – | 1 | Citizen | |
| QF | 15/05 | 11:25 | 04:25 | Celtic | 0p | – | 0 | Aston Villa | |
| QF | 15/05 | 11:50 | 04:50 | Rangers | 0 | – | 2 | Kitchee | |
| QF | 15/05 | 12:15 | 05:15 | Ajax | 1et | – | 0 | Boca Juniors | |
| SF | 15/05 | 16:05 | 09:05 | Liverpool | 1 | – | 2e | Kitchee | |
| SF | 15/05 | 16:30 | 09:30 | Celtic | 1e | – | 0 | Ajax | |
| Final | 15/05 | 19:00 | 12:00 | Celtic | 0 | – | 1 | Kitchee | |
Cup QF: Celtic 0 Aston Villa 0 (0-0 AET Celtic win 3-1 on penalties)
Team: Siegrist, Lowry, Lichaj, Hogg, Herd, Weimann, Forrester (Johnson).
Extra Time (Reduced to four players): Herd (Rush GK), Lichaj, Hogg, Weimann.
Penalties: Celtic go first.
- 1-0 Fraser, scored.
- 1-0 Forrester, saved.
- 1-0 Herron, saved.
- 1-0 Lowry, saved.
- 2-0 Atajic, scored.
- 2-1 Weimann, scored.
- 3-1 Spence, scored.
- 3-1 Johnson, saved.
Shield SF: Aston Villa 5 Boca Juniors 0
Team: Siegrist, Lowry, Deeney, Hogg (Forrester), Herd (Lichaj), Johnson, Weimann.
Goals: Hogg, Sosa (OG), Weimann (2), Johnson
Shield Final: Citizen 1 Aston Villa 0
Team: Siegrist, Lowry (Deeney), Herd (Forrester), Hogg, Johnson, Forrester (Lichaj), Weimann.
Summary
Slightly disappointing to come away with nothing after some very strong performances by the sounds of things.
As far as I could tell, the Villans battered Celtic for much of the Cup quarter final game, their keeper, Feely, forced to make a string of impressive saves to keep the game goalless. He then went on to save three penalties in the shoot out.
Villa then dropped into the consolation Shield competition and brushed aside Boca Juniors 5-0 to set up a final against Citizen, who they’d already beaten 2-0 in the final group game.
Unfortunately, they conceded their only goal from open play during the whole tournament in the first couple of minutes and weren’t able to get back on terms during the match.
Interestingly, Kitchee, the fourth side in this Summer’s Barclays Asia Trophy, made it to the final, beating Rangers and Liverpool, and pulled off something of an upset by beating Celtic 1-0 to lift the trophy.