Challenge

ANKARA SPOR
Spectators: 39 (Terracing: 30, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Serbia's Sreten Popovic started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. Kürşat Develi's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but Zvezdan Nedeljkovic read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 5th minute of play. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Kürşat Develi, who was totally free with the ball in the 7th minute. Aquilino Min fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 15th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Zvezdan Nedeljkovic having to interfere. Arlindo Cunha recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 16th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Kürşat Develi, who was totally free with the ball in the 18th minute. After some careless play in the Serbia defense, Kürşat Develi kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Zvezdan Nedeljkovic. The Serbia fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Zvezdan Nedeljkovic should have stopped the shot. After 32 played minutes Serbia got a freekick which was hit by Momir Gisic. Kürşat Develi received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 37th minute. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. 42 minutes had been played when some careless play by Serbia's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Songurbey Toregün was slow to take the kick. During this time TURHALL SPOR's players had a chance to rest. A nice corner shot did that Songurbey Toregün got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Zvezdan Nedeljkovic quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. Blas Otoniel showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Sreten Popovic in the 44th minute of the match. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic was in the perfect position, and the defense had done a good job marking him, but Kürşat Develi showcased his skills and made a perfect shot to score 2-0 in the 46 minute of play. No-one was surprised that the home team were leading 2-0 at half-time.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Kürşat Develi stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. Sreten Popovic fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 53rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Blas Otoniel having to interfere. Serbia's Zvezdan Nedeljkovic played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Kürşat Develi in the 55th minute of play. In the 58th minute, İsrafil Boğataş hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Kürşat Develi took the ball and in the 65 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Zvezdan Nedeljkovic. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 3-0. The audience was convinced that Kürşat Develi's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Zvezdan Nedeljkovic was relentless in the 68th minute of the game. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Kürşat Develi in the 71st minute of play. In the 72nd minute Kürşat Develi shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Zvezdan Nedeljkovic saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Arlindo Cunha received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 80th minute. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. An unexpectedly hard shot by Kürşat Develi in the 82nd minute of play forced Serbia's goalkeeper Zvezdan Nedeljkovic to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. When the match clock showed 85 minutes, the score became 4-0 when Kürşat Develi sped through Serbia's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Zvezdan Nedeljkovic. 96 minutes into the match, Kürşat Develi had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Zvezdan Nedeljkovic. Serbia's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Kürşat Develi was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 5-0. When the referee ended the match the TURHALL SPOR players were able to celebrate. They had won a fair victory and recieved the ovations of their fans.