U21 League

Stadio Baresi
Spectators: 161 (Terracing: 121, Seating: 37, VIP seats: 3) Calcio U21's Emanuel Lundgren quite brazenly broke a throw-in by Östen Lindblom, made in the 3rd minute of the game. In the 4th minute, Calcio U21's Karl-Johan Lidman dribbled the ball into the box and hit a shot with the outside of his foot, sending the keeper the wrong way. 1-0. When the match clock showed 7 minutes, the score became 2-0 when Karl-Johan Lidman sped through FC Snipers's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Emanuel Brandin. 10 minutes into the game, Östen Lindblom threw the ball into play from the sideline. Calcio U21's Diguinho Sousa quickly snatched the ball and retained possesion. In the 11th minute of the match, Manfred Watkins tried to roll the ball into the goal by the right post, but Emanuel Brandin saw his intentions and got control of the ball before it passed the line. Calcio U21's Manfred Watkins got a good chance for a goal in the 11th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. If Karl-Johan Lidman had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 13th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. The audience was convinced that Karl-Johan Lidman's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Emanuel Brandin was relentless in the 16th minute of the game. Karl-Johan Lidman sent away a hard shot on goal in the 21st minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Emanuel Brandin took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Karl-Johan Lidman, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Emanuel Brandin made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Manfred Watkins in the 26th minute of play. Emanuel Brandin was a little too slow when Karl-Johan Lidman got a fine hit on the ball which went right into the goal in the 28th minute. The score was now 5-0. In the 35th minute, Ivan Bjursell hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 36 minutes into the game, one of FC Snipers:s players got tackled near the goal, and the referee blew for a penalty. The referee gave Calcio U21 a penalty, 38 minutes into the game. The penalty shot was made by Manfred Watkins, who made a well placed shot into the net to the right of FC Snipers's Emanuel Brandin. 6-0. After 45 played minutes Calcio U21 got a freekick which was hit by Per-Olof Kolberg. When the referee blew for the end of the half the home team players were clearly happier, as they went in to the break leading 6-0.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Manfred Watkins stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. The throw-in from Östen Lindblom in the 54th minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by Calcio U21's Diguinho Sousa. An unexpectedly hard shot by Karl-Johan Lidman in the 55th minute of play forced FC Snipers's goalkeeper Emanuel Brandin to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Emanuel Brandin showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Karl-Johan Lidman, who was totally free with the ball in the 63rd minute. In the 65thth minute of the game Karl-Johan Lidman who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but FC Snipers's Emanuel Brandin was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. In the 69th minute, Manfred Watkins ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Emanuel Brandin was frozen by the shot and now it was 7-0. Calcio U21 made a substitution. Iivo Puistola replaced Manfred Watkins. Calcio U21's Diguinho Sousa managed, thanks to a brazen rush, stole the ball on a throw-in made by Östen Lindblom in the 74 minute of the game. Emanuel Brandin showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Karl-Johan Lidman in the 75th minute of the match. Calcio U21's Karl-Johan Lidman got a good chance for a goal in the 77th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Emanuel Brandin stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Karl-Johan Lidman's shot from short distance in the 80th minute. When Calcio U21's Karl-Johan Lidman in the 82nd minute got a chance for a shot 82nd didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye FC Snipers's goalie prevented a goal. After 82 minutes, Karl-Johan Lidman made it 8-0 with a short kick to the right side. FC Snipers's Emanuel Brandin tried to save the shot but he was too slow in reacting to the shot. 93 minutes into the match, Iivo Puistola notched a goal, 9-0, to the right of FC Snipers's Emanuel Brandin. Emanuel Brandin was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Calcio U21 walked away with a well-earned victory that was much celebrated by the crowd.