U21 World League

Plush Arena
Spectators: 7506 (Terracing: 5630, Seating: 1726, VIP seats: 150) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Marcin Czempa kicked off to start the match. In the 7th minute, FA Sandtown's Marcin Czempa ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind Eloy Etxahun. Eloy Etxahun yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 1-0. Eloy Etxahun showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Marcin Czempa in the 11th minute of the match. Eloy Etxahun showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Marcin Czempa in the 13th minute of the match. Conrado Porfirio's late challenge caught a FA Sandtown's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Conrado Porfirio helped the player get up and apologised. Conrado Porfirio hit a great freekick 15 minutes into the match. With an all-out effort, FA Sandtown's Eloy Etxahun threw himself towards the right post 17 minutes into the match and grabbed hold of the ball from Dobromir Wawrukiewicz, which otherwise would have been placed in the net. The crowd rose to their feet as FA Sandtown's Marcin Czempa slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Eloy Etxahun. That made the score 2-0 after 22 minutes of play. Eloy Etxahun made a fantastic save in the 28th minute, when Marcin Czempa sent off a good shot on target. Dobromir Wawrukiewicz received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 35th minute. Eloy Etxahun tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Eloy Etxahun showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Pankracy Jaks in the 41st minute of the match. After 42 played minutes FA Sandtown got a freekick which was hit by Cyryl Smuskiewicz. After 44 played minutes FA Sandtown got a freekick which was hit by Pankracy Jaks. 46 minutes into the match, Ambrosio Gilabert notched a goal, 3-1, to the right of FA Sandtown's Stefan Lukasik. Stefan Lukasik was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. The away team players looked dejected as the walked off the pitch at half time. They had fought hard, but were still losing 3-1.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Ambrosio Gilabert to make the kick off. Eloy Etxahun showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Dobromir Wawrukiewicz in the 51st minute of the match. After 53 minutes of play, FA Sandtown's Pankracy Jaks made it 4-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Eloy Etxahun was left in no man's land by his defense there! Inter de Urquiza's Eloy Etxahun played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Wladyslaw Drozdowski in the 56th minute of play. 59 minutes into the game, Marcin Czempa cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 5-1. Eloy Etxahun was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. 62 minutes into the match, Inter de Urquiza's goal looked a bit too open when Pankracy Jaks came free, but Eloy Etxahun reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Moises Precioso recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 64th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. Eloy Etxahun didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Pankracy Jaks went, in the 67th minute, to the upper right corner, 6-1 was the resulting score. After some fancy dribbling in the 69th minute, Wladyslaw Drozdowski managed to get in a good position for a shot. FA Sandtown's supporters rose to their feet, but Wladyslaw Drozdowski was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Eloy Etxahun breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Pankracy Jaks scored 7-1 in the 71st match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Eloy Etxahun, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. In the 74th minute Dobromir Wawrukiewicz shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Eloy Etxahun saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Conrado Porfirio hit a great freekick 77 minutes into the match. FA Sandtown's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Wladyslaw Drozdowski in the 86th minute. A nice corner shot did that Wladyslaw Drozdowski got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Eloy Etxahun quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. In the 92nd minute Marcin Czempa shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Eloy Etxahun saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. The crowd rose to their feet and cheered when the referee blew the final whistle. FA Sandtown had won after a very even match.