U23 World League

Del Piero Alessandro
Spectators: 7721 (Terracing: 5792, Seating: 1775, VIP seats: 154) Abu Sap made the kick off and thus started the match. Medoacus Maior's Jiang Hong Xiang played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Abu Sap in the 6th minute of play. In the 10th minute, Damiano Tolin ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Efe Akşit was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-0. Osman Gulson hit a great freekick 13 minutes into the match. In the 32nd minute, Arturo Grassi left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Medoacus Maior fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 2-0. Angelo La Penna's late challenge caught a 1930 Bafraspor's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Angelo La Penna helped the player get up and apologised. In the 37th minute, Angelo La Penna hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 40th minute, Abu Sap got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. In the 44th minute Abu Sap shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Jiang Hong Xiang saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 46th match minute, 1930 Bafraspor was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Saruhan Uygu to maneuver through the defense. After some fancy dribbling in the 47th minute, Pedro Geromel managed to get in a good position for a shot. Medoacus Maior's supporters rose to their feet, but Pedro Geromel was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Efe Akşit breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. All the noise was coming from the home fans when the whistle went for half-time. The home team had fought hardest to put themselves in a deserved lead.

Arturo Grassi scored 3-0 in the 53rd match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Efe Akşit, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. An unexpectedly hard shot by Johan Tingelholm in the 56th minute of play forced 1930 Bafraspor's goalkeeper Efe Akşit to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After 60 played minutes Medoacus Maior got a freekick which was hit by Johan Tingelholm. 1930 Bafraspor's George Popescu was substituted for Abdulkerim Bardakçı. In the 62nd match minute, Medoacus Maior was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Johan Tingelholm to maneuver through the defense. An unexpectedly hard shot by Johan Tingelholm in the 64th minute of play forced 1930 Bafraspor's goalkeeper Efe Akşit to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 1930 Bafraspor's Efe Akşit played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Damiano Tolin in the 64th minute of play. Efe Akşit showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Amos Cipollone in the 66th minute of the match. 1930 Bafraspor's Efe Akşit played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Amos Cipollone in the 69th minute of play. 1930 Bafraspor's Efe Akşit played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Amos Cipollone in the 70th minute of play. In the 71st minute, Damiano Tolin ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Efe Akşit was frozen by the shot and now it was 4-0. Damiano Tolin took the ball and in the 79 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Efe Akşit. Efe Akşit dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 5-0. 1930 Bafraspor's Efe Akşit played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Johan Tingelholm in the 83rd minute of play. After some careless play in the 1930 Bafraspor defense, Amos Cipollone kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Efe Akşit. The 1930 Bafraspor fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Efe Akşit should have stopped the shot. Jiang Hong Xiang took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Zalmon Ogle, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the 94th minute, Arturo Grassi left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Medoacus Maior fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 8-0. Medoacus Maior's supporters were delighted with their team's performance and swarmed onto the pitch at the end of the match to celebrate the victory with the players.