U21 League

Gudby
Spectators: 152 (Terracing: 114, Seating: 35, VIP seats: 3) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Joel Classon got the match started through his kick off. Billy Hydén's late challenge caught a UÅ Mästerbotten's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Billy Hydén helped the player get up and apologised. In the 4th minute, Billy Hydén hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 5th minute of the match Kennet Boström sent off a long shot with destination to the right of the goalkeeper, but Aron Vikström skillfully saved the ball. Joel Classon fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 7th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Niklas Ström having to interfere. In the 8th minute, Joel Classon made a precise shot to the right of Niklas Ström. UÅ Mästerbotten's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 1-0. Jesper Wallin received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 12th minute. Aron Vikström tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Aron Vikström showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from George Lindberg in the 15th minute of the match. Kenny Ekeberg hit a great freekick 18 minutes into the match. Aron Vikström didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Arne Lagerberg went, in the 25th minute, to the upper right corner, 1-1 was the resulting score. 32 minutes had been played when some careless play by UÅ Mästerbotten's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Kenny Ekeberg was slow to take the kick. During this time Karlsborg's players had a chance to rest. The audience was convinced that Calle Lundqvist's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Aron Vikström was relentless in the 40th minute of the game. 43 minutes into the match, Karlsborg's goal looked a bit too open when Calle Lundqvist came free, but Aron Vikström reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. The audience thought a goal was coming when Hans Norberg got free with Niklas Ström in the 45th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. The score stood at 1-1 when the half time whistle went. Both sets of players seemed reasonably pleased with how the match was going.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for George Lindberg to strike the kick off in the second half. Kenny Ekeberg hit a great freekick 52 minutes into the match. In the 54th minute Hans Norberg shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Niklas Ström saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. The referee felt a red card was in order, 62 minutes into the game, when Joel Classon put in a rough tackle. Kenny Ekeberg kicked well hit freekick during the 74th minute of the match. UÅ Mästerbotten made a substitution. Eric Moberg replaced Calle Lundqvist. In the 75th minute, Kenny Ekeberg hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Eric Moberg took the ball and in the 78 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Aron Vikström. Aron Vikström dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 1-2. Jesper Wallin sent away a hard shot on goal in the 80th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Aron Vikström took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Eric Moberg, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Aron Vikström showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Eric Moberg, who was totally free with the ball in the 86th minute. Jesper Wallin took the ball and in the 91 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Aron Vikström. Aron Vikström dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 1-3. The UÅ Mästerbotten players were relieved to hear the final whistle blow to end the match. The away crowd was happy to see their team win after a very tight game.