We were at the 2012 Valencia Fives Cup Semi-Finals stage and from the 24 teams who started the day we were down to the final 4…..and 4 different nationalities still with a chance of victory – England, France, Hungary and Ireland.

The first two teams to do battle were Ireland's Mestallaban and France's Grant Thornton. For both teams this represented the furthest stage they had reached in eurofootballfives.com competition and so both teams were breaking new ground. One team would go even further, one team would have to exit after this game.

The game was very tight and although it could be argued that Grant Thornton had the majority of the game they were unable to score (a bit like watching Arsenal). Mestallaban, who had defended superbly in this tournament, were more than capable of taking full advantage by producing the most important statistic of all in the goals column. Lorcan Bannon's third goal of the tournament that sealed his team's place in the 2012 Valencia Fives Cup Final….a great achievement.

It was the end of the road for Grant Thornton today but after a Cup Quarter-Final in Budapest, a Cup Semi-Final in Valencia…..you wouldn't put it past them to make a Cup Final in their next European adventure.

So, who would take their place in the Final from the second Semi-Final? The two teams set to do battle were FC Miracle of Hungary against Alphasights of England.

FC Miracle had now reached the Cup Quarter-Finals in all 3 of their eurofooballfives.com tournaments. So far, they had one victory (3-0 versus Spain's Rapid Bosco Navas at the 2011 Barca Fives) and one defeat (1-0 versus France's CFC A in the 2012 Algarve Open). Could they reach their second Cup Final?

Their opponents Alphasights were on an unbeaten run of 7 games in eurofootballfives.com competition and had picked up medals before in Krakow. That was in the Plate, so far today they had showed they were just at home in the step up in class of the Cup competition.

We had a keenly contested first half to enjoy and as we entered the break FC Miracle held the advantage….it was a narrow lead but an important lead, 2-1. Goals from Janis Molnar and Csaba Balogh helping them on their way. Andreas Friedberg, fresh from his four goal salvo against CBD Boys, was scoring again for Alphasights with his seventh of the tournament.

After the break Janos Molnar's 7 th goal of the tournament extended the Hungarian lead to 3-1 and Alphasights were really up against it. They really had to throw caution to the wind to get back into it and FC Miracle were more than capable of picking their pockets on the break. Zoltan Rajki made it 4-1 and FC Miracle were in the Final.

It was farewell to Alphasights who had played well in Krakow but were hugely impressive here in Valencia. They've already declared an interest in returning to tournament action in 2013 (destination unknown as yet) and if they can show the same progression from Krakow-Valencia as Valencia-2013 then there could even be a tournament trophy headling back to Alphasightsville.