Author Archives: Joao Miguel Freitas

Apr. 12 – Ladies in the Cup final

The ladies won their place in the Portuguese Cup final this weekend, after coming from 0-1 down after the first leg of their semi-final.

They started under a lot of pressure and for the first 7/8 minutes they were lost with a lot of missed passes, poor ball control… after this they found their way under the guidance of their captain Angela Lima and the ladies’ star Inês Campos and never again lost control of the game. Despite being in full control of the game, the 1st goal only appeared from the 5th short-corner by Carolina Oliveira.

LCHC x CFOB_Taca de protugal

After the break, Belenenses desperately needed a goal to get through to the final and tried to push up, but this only worked for LCHC because we finally found the spaces we needed. The best was still to come, the goal of the day was scored by our speedy warrior Georgina Scheder-Bieschin with a fantastic tip in, slotting the ball in the top left angle after a strong pass from Raquel Freitas: the explosion of happiness on the pitch was amazing, we were ahead in the qualifier for the first time.

To close out this amazing game our star recovered the ball immediately in the Belenenses defence and like an arrow aimed at the goal, she ran straight to the top of the circle leaving 2 Belenenses players behind, to make a brilliant full rotation and shoot hard: the goalie was about to kick the ball out when Joana Penetra with a super intelligent move, tipped in the ball from Inês, making it impossible to defend. Belenenses now had to score 2 goals just to tie the qualifier and 3 to pass… The ladies wouldn’t allow any goal in and sealed their 1st class ticket to the 1st LCHC Cup Final.

João Miguel Freitas

Apr. 11 – U18 6th win in a row

Até ao primeiro golo aos 9 minutos de Philipp Wenzel (canto curto) o jogo estava muito igualado, mesmo dando o facto de a Casa Pia estar a jogar com menos dois jogadores. Este golo deu ao Lisbon Casuals uma pequena vantagem, conseguindo mais ataques e deixando a bola no meio campo da Casa Pia. Foi só aos 22 minutos que a Casa Pia deixou entrar um golo de Vicente Mourão. No minuto seguinte Thomas Machado conseguiu fazer o mesmo.

Na segunda parte do jogo Tomas Hilt entrou como Kicking-Back, mudando o guarda redes Gonçalo Brito para o ataque. A Casa Pia começou a segunda parte com menos mais um jogador, que tinha levado com um cartão verde no minuto 35 da parte anterior. Foi só ao minuto 50 que entrou um golo, novamente de Philipp Wenzel. A presença de um Kicking-Back turnou alguns contra ataques da Casa Pia muito perigosos, o que não facilitou o jogo ao LCHC. Aos 55 minutos entrou outro golo de Thomas Machado. Foi Philipp Wenzel que marcou o último golo para o LCHC aos 64 minutos.”

Resultado final: Casa Pia  0 – 6  Lisbon Casuals

 Henrique Santos

Mar. 8 – Ladies lost 2nd outdoor match of the season…

Belenensesx LCHC Ladies

Foto: Pedro Leitão

Last Sunday, the LCHC ladies face Belenenses for the 1st match between the two teams for the Portuguese Cup.

After the win of 5-0 to the championship in October against Belenenses, early in the game it was obvious who was going to dominate the game, with a fantastic offensive waves LCHC easily install them self on Belenenses half pitch. Several chance to score but with all Belenenses team inside the defensive circle it was difficult to find our way to he goal.

Incredibly in one of the few counter-attack of Belenenses they manage to score catching LCHC by surprise.

On the second half the dominance was even more noticed. The ladies pushed really hard keeping belenenses most of the second half inside their defensive circle. But not even with more than 20 shots on goal we manage to score and make this the second defeat in outdoor this season, but not all is lost since we have the second match to decide who goes to the finals.

JMF