Friendly League

Nairo Quintana
Spectators: 36 (Terracing: 28, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) The field was rather wet after several days of rain when Nicasio Abreu took the kick off in the first half of the match. Otávio Dante showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Blaise Dahmani in the 12th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Narciso Mendes in the 15th minute of play forced United.SF's goalkeeper Radostin Stanev to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 17th minute of the match Jaru-Uaru got a corner. United.SF's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Wincenty Gendolla ran over to the corner to take the kick. 22 minutes had been played when some careless play by Jaru-Uaru's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Blaise Dahmani was slow to take the kick. During this time United.SF's players had a chance to rest. Otávio Dante showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Eusebio Belo in the 30th minute of the match. Blaise Dahmani's shot when he came free in front of the goal in the 31stth minute, Otávio Dante skillfully showed off with a save to what seemed to be an obvious goal. Miguel Stilov's late challenge caught a Jaru-Uaru's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Miguel Stilov helped the player get up and apologised. A collision led to United.SF getting a freekick after 33 minutes play. Miguel Stilov hit a great ball. Jaru-Uaru's Narciso Mendes got a good chance for a goal in the 34th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. An unexpectedly hard shot by Nicasio Abreu in the 40th minute of play forced United.SF's goalkeeper Radostin Stanev to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After having played for 43 minutes, Cecilio Valiente managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. United.SF's supporters crossed their fingers, but Cecilio Valiente was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Blaise Dahmani made a kick off. 52 minutes into the game, Blaise Dahmani cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 1-1. Otávio Dante was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. The United.SF fans' excitement grew in the 55th match minute when United.SF's Blaise Dahmani looked to have a clear shot with the ball near the goal. The shot wasn't hard, but the ball still rolled over the goal line to make it 2-1 before the goalkeeper had a chance to intervene. The supporters of Jaru-Uaru booed when United.SF was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 57 match minutes in a wonderful position. Pablo Bartuelo didn't get a good kick on the ball. United.SF's Eugeniusz Trzaskoma was substituted for Blaise Dahmani. Pablo Bartuelo hit a great freekick 58 minutes into the match. Otávio Dante made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Tom Oolo in the 61st minute of play. Eugeniusz Trzaskoma fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 62nd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Otávio Dante having to interfere. Otávio Dante stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Eugeniusz Trzaskoma's shot from short distance in the 66th minute. In the 70th minute Luís Fernando Vides shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Radostin Stanev saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Radostin Stanev made an important save on a dangerous shot by Nicasio Abreu in the 73rd minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Panagiotis Stamatas in the 76th minute of play forced Jaru-Uaru's goalkeeper Otávio Dante to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 77th minute of the match United.SF got a corner. Jaru-Uaru's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Pablo Bartuelo ran over to the corner to take the kick. After 79 minutes Jaru-Uaru's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Pablo Bartuelo who took care of the corner kick. A nice corner shot did that Pablo Bartuelo got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Otávio Dante quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. Emerson Santana hit a great freekick 80 minutes into the match. If Damian Rico had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 82nd minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. After a rather tough play, Jaru-Uaru's Gervasio Tajo got a free kick in the 85th minute. When United.SF's Eusebio Belo in the 86th minute got a chance for a shot 86th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye Jaru-Uaru's goalie prevented a goal. The audience was convinced that Eusebio Belo's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Otávio Dante was relentless in the 86th minute of the game. After 92 played minutes Jaru-Uaru got a freekick which was hit by Velislav Irinchev. Eugeniusz Trzaskoma took the ball and in the 94 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Otávio Dante. Otávio Dante dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 4-1. After some fancy dribbling in the 96th minute, Tom Oolo managed to get in a good position for a shot. United.SF's supporters rose to their feet, but Tom Oolo was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Otávio Dante breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. United.SF'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.