Ilves FS 7-0 FC Rauma

Ilves played their first ever game at their new home of Pirkkahalli on Friday and the 7 time champions destroyed FC Rauma to officially open the new venue.

We start off the match with an early goal, FC Rauma in no trouble at all in defence but Juhana Jyrkiänen walks straight up to the defender and takes the ball off him with ease, passes it across to Niko Stenholm who puts us 1-0 up after 4 and a half minutes played.

The second goal came less than two minutes later through more bad defending, Jaakko Laitinen dribbling through the middle and passing to an unmarked Tomi Lahtinen who couldn’t miss from close range.  We were made to wait until the second half for the next goal, 22 minutes on the clock before last season’s hero Timur Inapshba gets an assist from his corner kick, straight to Antti Teittinen on the edge of the area who one times it into the far corner of the net, game over.

Five minutes after that we make it 4-0, beautiful one touch passing in a triangle around FC  Rauma, Jyrkiänen setting up Petri Grönholm to get on the score sheet as he put it passed Joni Kuusisto.  Then came goal number five, fairly similar to the one we had scored 2 minutes earlier, short, fast passing and Lahtinen got his second of the game, Inapshba assisting.

We were not going to stop at just 5-0, Valtteri Similä blasting a half volley into the net, a great scoreline to send the large crowd home happy, we did have time to score just one more though, Stenholm who opened the scoring got the assist on Jyrkiänen‘s second of the night, another from outside of the area, low and hard into the bottom right hand corner, no chance for Kuusisto in goal.

Great scoreline and our impressive new home and wooden floor remains undefeated, a perfect performance and a clean sheet, just what you want on your new home debut.