U23 World League

The wings of success
Spectators: 7477 (Terracing: 5609, Seating: 1719, VIP seats: 149) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Georgi Benishev kicked off to start the match. 4 minutes into the match, 白诚翔 notched a goal, 0-1, to the right of SPARROWS's Genko Dankin. Genko Dankin was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. An unexpectedly hard shot by 白诚翔 in the 7th minute of play forced SPARROWS's goalkeeper Genko Dankin to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 潘悦亦 had great luck who in the 14thth minute grab hold of the ball when Georgi Benishev from a short distance tried to put the ball inside the right post. After some careless play in the SPARROWS defense, 汪林荣 kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Genko Dankin. The SPARROWS fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Genko Dankin should have stopped the shot. 潘悦亦 made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Georgi Benishev in the 19th minute of play. 20 minutes into the match, 汪林荣 had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Genko Dankin. SPARROWS's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that 汪林荣 was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-3. After a rather tough play, SPARROWS's Teodor Katerinski got a free kick in the 27th minute. Delyan Kovanov hit a great freekick 29 minutes into the match. In the 29th minute of the match 朱珂战 sent off a long shot with destination to the right of the goalkeeper, but Genko Dankin skillfully saved the ball. Teodor Katerinski's late challenge caught a 贵州省施秉县醒狮队's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Teodor Katerinski helped the player get up and apologised. In the 33rd minute, Teodor Katerinski hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 36th minute 白诚翔 shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Genko Dankin saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Genko Dankin took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from 白诚翔, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Arhangel Vladkov hit a great freekick 40 minutes into the match. 42 minutes into the game, 汪林荣 cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-4. Genko Dankin was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. 47 minutes into the game, 贵州省施秉县醒狮队's 白诚翔 nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Genko Dankin made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 0-5. Even after changing tactics the home team jogged off the field with a 0-5 deficit. They would have to work harder if they wanted to turn things around in the second half.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when 汪林荣 stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. In the 57th minute, 汪林荣 reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Genko Dankin. The goal made the score 0-6. Yanislav Plachkov received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 63rd minute. 潘悦亦 tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Genko Dankin was in the perfect position, and the defense had done a good job marking him, but 白诚翔 showcased his skills and made a perfect shot to score 0-7 in the 66 minute of play. With his leg Genko Dankin managed to avoid a goal in the 71stth minute, when 贵州省施秉县醒狮队's 汪林荣 fired away a shot with a lot of spin towards his right hand side. 汪林荣 succeeded to score despite a near miss that spronge from right pole into the goal to 0-8 in the 75th playminute. 79 minutes into the game, one of 贵州省施秉县醒狮队:s players got tackled near the goal, and the referee blew for a penalty. 潘悦亦 had in the 80thth minute some difficulties stopping Georgi Benishev's well aimed penalty as it nearly passed him on his left side, but he still managed to hold the ball. In the 85th minute Yanislav Plachkov shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but 潘悦亦 saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. After 85 minutes of play, SPARROWS's Yanislav Plachkov made it 1-8 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. 潘悦亦 was left in no man's land by his defense there! The audience was convinced that 白诚翔's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Genko Dankin was relentless in the 89th minute of the game. After 94 played minutes SPARROWS got a freekick which was hit by Svetlozar Florov. 许峰云 hit a great freekick 98 minutes into the match. 贵州省施秉县醒狮队's players went to the stands to thank the travelling support. The fan's backing had helped spurr the team on to a fine performance that won them the match.