Challenge

Arena Brusinka
Spectators: 42 (Terracing: 32, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Sreten Popovic made the kick off which started today's match. In the 4th minute, Jaroslav Exner hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Miljan Gavrilovic charged in rather forcefully in the 6th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Miljan Gavrilovic the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. After 6 played minutes Serbia got a freekick which was hit by Miljan Gavrilovic. Sreten Popovic fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 14th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Jiří Erban having to interfere. In the 15th match minute, FK BRUSINKY was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Ctibor Barnet to maneuver through the defense. A hard and well directed shot from Sreten Popovic led 16 minutes into the game to a goal after the ball had bounced deceptively just in front of the goal. FK BRUSINKY's Jiří Erban became a little unsure and couldn't grip the ball before it was over the goalline. Thus it was 0-1. After a defensive mix-up in FK BRUSINKY's zone, Sreten Popovic stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Jiří Erban came out of the goal and Sreten Popovic tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. After 24 minutes, Vladislav Daniš mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the FK BRUSINKY and the Serbia players grew even worse after the yellow card. After a rather tough play, FK BRUSINKY's Vladislav Daniš got a free kick in the 24th minute. Jiří Erban showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Sreten Popovic, who was totally free with the ball in the 26th minute. Vojtěch Smíšek's late challenge caught a Serbia's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Vojtěch Smíšek helped the player get up and apologised. Sreten Popovic received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 33rd minute. Jiří Erban tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. 38 minutes into the match, Vojtěch Smíšek 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 Vojtěch Smíšek was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 1-1. Jiří Erban showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Borjan Golubovic, who was totally free with the ball in the 42nd minute. The away team players looked dejected as the walked off the pitch at half time. They had fought hard, but were still losing 2-1.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Petr Tauchman was the one to do the kick off. After 53 minutes, Jaroslav Exner mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the FK BRUSINKY and the Serbia players grew even worse after the yellow card. After a rather tough play, Serbia's Rasko Nestorovski got a free kick in the 56th minute. Jiří Macoun sent away a hard shot on goal in the 58th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. When Sreten Popovic came up free with the goalie in the 60th minute, the Serbia fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Sreten Popovic couldn't finish the play. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Petr Tauchman in the 62nd minute of the match. After having played for 63 minutes, Borjan Golubovic managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Serbia's supporters crossed their fingers, but Borjan Golubovic was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Vladislav Daniš made in the 72nd minute of the game a fairly good throw-in which was taken care of by Jiří Macoun. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Petr Tauchman in the 75th minute of play. A sloppy throw-in by František Schiller in the 76th minute of the game went astray and was snapped up by Serbia's Jovan Borisov. After some careless play in the Serbia defense, Vojtěch Smíšek 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. In the 92nd minute of the game František Halamka made a throw-in which Jiří Macoun played forward. FK BRUSINKY were really happy, having secured the victory after a very even contest. They thanked the players of Serbia for a fine match.