St Panteleimon FC after a period of non football have risen to reach the Middlesex Premier Cup Final after beating Rayners Lane 3-1 in the semi Final and now will go onto play the winners of Kensington & Ealing Borough FC or FC Deportivo Galicia in the final.

It was an exciting semi Final with both teams from the Spartan South Midlands League setting an example with flourishing good football.
In the first ten minutes St Panteleimon had two glorious chances one a scoring header that was ruled offside. And another a shot that hit the post and was cleared off the line.

It looked as if the game was going to into the second half goalless and then in the 40th minute the Saints were awarded a free kick just outside the box and Javvone Molloy scored with an astonishing shot and when it seemed St Panteleimon were going into the break 1-0 up, the opponents Rayners Lane capitalised on a Saints defensive error and scored with Courtney Austin in the added time of the first half.

Both teams were nervous about worrying about giving a goal away than scoring one and with five minutes to go a pass to Noyan Tajbakhsh led to him scoring the second and in added time Courtney Massey intercepted on a mistake by two Rayners Lane players to go on his own to put the ball past the oncoming Rayners Lane goalkeeper into the back of the net and give St Panteleimon a place in the final.

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