It was an afternoon that will live in Poseidon's memory for all the wrong reasons. Kalev Nõmme visited the Round of 32 fixture on Monday and left with twelve goals to show for it. The final score read 0-12, a result that says more about what happened than any post-match analysis ever could.
And here's the thing — it wasn't as if the visitors were hiding their intentions. Jabir Ibrahim struck within three minutes, before Daniil Tarassenkov added a second. By the fourteenth minute, Tiago Baptista had made it three, and Poseidon's defenders were already looking for somewhere to hide. To be fair, there wasn't much they could do.
The floodgates opened properly after the interval. Ibrahim reached five goals before Fjodor Jekimov and Mihhail Orlov pushed the tally beyond double figures. Nikita Ivanov and Daniil Sotsugov added further embellishments, while Ibrahim completed his hat-trick of five on the eighty-seventh minute. The away end never stopped, though the occasion hardly demanded it.
What struck you watching it was the rhythm of the goals. They came in clusters — two in four minutes, then a gap, then another pair. It wasn't frantic football, just methodical dismantling. Poseidon had nothing to do all evening, and that's the polite way of saying they were overrun in midfield from the first whistle.
The recent form tells you something, though it doesn't excuse anything. Kalev Nõmme had beaten Trans Narva 2-0 and Tammeke 5-1, with a victory over Shelbourne on their minds. Poseidon's last outing was a 2-2 draw with Team Helms, but that feels like water under the bridge now. The relationship between these sides adds an edge to what happened, but this was simply a mismatch.
By then, the Cup tie was over before most of the stand had finished settling in. Twelve goals in a single half is not something you forget, and Poseidon will be replaying this one for a while. Kalev Nõmme move on to the next round, though the question of what happens next season is the one that matters.