World League

ACR
Spectators: 7553 (Terracing: 5666, Seating: 1737, VIP seats: 150) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Zorko Hendrickx started the match with the kick off. In the 4th minute, Jasper Jump left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Astreix&ObelixSoccer fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-1. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Jasper Jump in the 11th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Roch Olchawa saved ACR SA from getting behind. A collision led to ACR SA getting a freekick after 19 minutes play. Ludomir Grucza hit a great ball. A collision led to Astreix&ObelixSoccer getting a freekick after 23 minutes play. Nat Firth hit a great ball. Roch Olchawa took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Jasper Jump, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. After 29 minutes Astreix&ObelixSoccer's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Wincenty Laskowski who took care of the corner kick. In the 34th minute Jasper Jump shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Roch Olchawa saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Rolf Shua's late challenge caught a ACR SA's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Rolf Shua helped the player get up and apologised. Rolf Shua kicked well hit freekick during the 40th minute of the match. In the 41st minute, Andrejs Upītis hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Wincenty Laskowski could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 41st minute of the match, but Ian Little made a huge save. After 44 played minutes, Astreix&ObelixSoccer's Rolf Shua shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Roch Olchawa came through and got his fingers on the ball before it flew over the goal line. He then quickly gripped the ball tighter before the forwards in Astreix&ObelixSoccer reached it. The ACR SA players were disheartened as they walked off the pitch after the first half. Astreix&ObelixSoccer were winning 0-1.

Astreix&ObelixSoccer made a substitution. Frenkie Puig replaced Quentin Hart. Astreix&ObelixSoccer's Stig Svanberg was substituted for Byron Blake. Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Marek Brayford to make the kick off. After a rather tough play, Astreix&ObelixSoccer's Jakub Moizuk got a free kick in the 58th minute. Jakub Moizuk hit a great freekick 60 minutes into the match. In the 67th minute Jasper Jump shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Roch Olchawa saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. An unexpectedly hard shot by Fred-Marc Firmino in the 73rd minute of play forced Astreix&ObelixSoccer's goalkeeper Ian Little to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Astreix&ObelixSoccer's attentive Zheng Shi Yang managed to snatch the ball when Ludomil Czajkowski made a throw-in in the 76th minute of the game. Roch Olchawa didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when Astreix&ObelixSoccer's Jasper Jump shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 0-3 in the ordered_time% minute. ACR SA's Roch Olchawa proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 96th minute of the match, managed to save ACR SA from getting a goal against them. The referee blew the final whistle, and the away crowd roared, having watched Astreix&ObelixSoccer eke out a victory against a very well matched opponent.