World League

KOMPLEK DUTA KRANJI
Spectators: 7692 (Terracing: 5770, Seating: 1769, VIP seats: 153) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Gofar Pohan started the match with the kick off. Aras Sophian made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Du Lei Bin in the 7th minute of play. In the 9th minute the ball was on its way in behind Sport Lisboa e Benfica's goalkeeper Herb Good, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. Kranji Crunchy's Aras Sophian played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Trey Easley in the 13th minute of play. Sport Lisboa e Benfica's Herb Good proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 14th minute of the match, managed to save Sport Lisboa e Benfica from getting a goal against them. In the 24th minute the ball was on its way in behind Sport Lisboa e Benfica's goalkeeper Herb Good, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. In the 25th minute the ball was on its way in behind Sport Lisboa e Benfica's goalkeeper Herb Good, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. Kranji Crunchy's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Filip Barbosu in the 26th minute. 29 minutes into the match, Sport Lisboa e Benfica's Jean Britton sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Aras Sophian narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Kranji Crunchy's Gofar Pohan was standing unmarked in front of the goal when he, in the 31st play minute, got the ball and easily drilled it into the goal. The audience was convinced that Jean Britton's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Aras Sophian was relentless in the 39th minute of the game. After a defensive mix-up in Kranji Crunchy's zone, Jean Britton stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Aras Sophian came out of the goal and Jean Britton tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. A collision led to Kranji Crunchy getting a freekick after 44 minutes play. Battal Seyyit Torcan hit a great ball. In the 48th minute, Marcel Lynn hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. No-one was surprised that the home team were leading 1-0 at half-time.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Jean Britton to make the kick off. Sport Lisboa e Benfica's Herb Good played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Bengt-Arne Bäckman in the 53rd minute of play. Herb Good took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Gofar Pohan, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Lu Lei Fan got a throw-in 64 minutes in the game and the ball was received by Bule Amin. Jean Britton scored 1-1 in the 65th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Aras Sophian, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. In the 74th minute Gofar Pohan shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Herb Good saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Kranji Crunchy's Dian Hatala was substituted for Gofar Pohan. A throw-in in the 77th minute of the game was made by Lu Lei Fan with Dian Hatala as target, who quickly passed the ball forward. Lu Lei Fan made in the 84th minute of the game a sloppy throw-in which Dian Hatala however managed to control. Aras Sophian made an important save on a dangerous shot by Jean Britton in the 85th minute. 90 minutes into the match, Kranji Crunchy's goalkeeper Aras Sophian had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Jean Britton. After 95 played minutes Filip Barbosu shot from long distance. At first the shot seemed to be simple for Sport Lisboa e Benfica's Herb Good to catch but Filip Barbosu was lucky. It became 2-1 after the goalkeeper had been careless and dropped the ball into goal. Kranji Crunchy made a substitution. Jojon Sopandi replaced Battal Seyyit Torcan. Kranji Crunchy were really happy, having secured the victory after a very even contest. They thanked the players of Sport Lisboa e Benfica for a fine match.