Challenge

San Nicolò Arena
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Davide Bertolini kicked off to start the match. Nedo Nadi received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 6th minute. Henrich Slany tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. 9 minutes into the game, San Nicolò Kings's Nedo Nadi nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Henrich Slany made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 2-0. Slovakia's Henrich Slany proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 12th minute of the match, managed to save Slovakia from getting a goal against them. Franco Catucci showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Metod Mlynar in the 14th minute of the match. Slovakia's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Pavol Koleno in the 15th minute. After 16 played minutes Slovakia got a freekick which was hit by Metod Mlynar. Nedo Nadi could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 20th minute of the match, but Henrich Slany made a huge save. 24 minutes into the match, Nedo Nadi notched a goal, 3-0, to the right of Slovakia's Henrich Slany. Henrich Slany was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. After a defensive mix-up in Slovakia's zone, Nedo Nadi stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Henrich Slany came out of the goal and Nedo Nadi tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. In the 29th minute Metod Mlynar shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Franco Catucci saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Nedo Nadi struck a weak shot in the 32nd minute. Henrich Slany didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for San Nicolò Kings. Nedo Nadi came free with the goalkeeper in the 34th minute of the match, and shot straight on target. The shot was a little too simple and Henrich Slany could save by the left post. In the 35th play minute Nedo Nadi came free and shot an unsuspected shot which went into goal from the right pole behind a surprised Henrich Slany. 4-0. San Nicolò Kings's Alessandro Baston quite brazenly broke a throw-in by Vít Biskup, made in the 41st minute of the game. Franco Catucci took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Metod Mlynar, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. After 47 minutes of play, San Nicolò Kings's Nedo Nadi made it 5-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Henrich Slany was left in no man's land by his defense there! When the referee blew for the end of the half the home team players were clearly happier, as they went in to the break leading 5-0.

In the 56thth minute of the game Nedo Nadi who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Slovakia's Henrich Slany was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. After a rather tough play, San Nicolò Kings's Ernesto Tagliente got a free kick in the 60th minute. Nedo Nadi sent away a hard shot on goal in the 62nd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Vít Biskup's late challenge caught a San Nicolò Kings's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Vít Biskup helped the player get up and apologised. In the 64th match minute, Slovakia was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Vít Biskup to maneuver through the defense. After 69 minutes of play, San Nicolò Kings's Nedo Nadi made it 6-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Henrich Slany was left in no man's land by his defense there! If Nedo Nadi had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 74th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. 75 minutes into the match, Davide Bertolini notched a goal, 7-0, to the right of Slovakia's Henrich Slany. Henrich Slany was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Henrich Slany showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Davide Bertolini in the 79th minute of the match. Nedo Nadi received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 84th minute. Henrich Slany tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. 90 minutes into the match, Nedo Nadi had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Henrich Slany. Slovakia's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Nedo Nadi was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 9-0. The audience was convinced that Nedo Nadi's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Henrich Slany was relentless in the 94th minute of the game. Metod Mlynar kicked well hit freekick during the 96th minute of the match.