World League

Stora Valla
Spectators: 7482 (Terracing: 5613, Seating: 1720, VIP seats: 149) The field was rather wet after several days of rain when Krish Melin took the kick off in the first half of the match. In the 7th minute, Stasio Wiater left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The KP Karmel fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-1. Folke Gabrielsson made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Stasio Wiater in the 11th minute of play. After 13 minutes of play, KP Karmel's Maciej Pietrowski made it 0-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Folke Gabrielsson was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 16th minute the ball was on its way in behind IFK Kik's goalkeeper Folke Gabrielsson, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. KP Karmel's Jacek Fleszar played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Krish Melin in the 17th minute of play. Zbyszek Wojno fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 21st minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Folke Gabrielsson having to interfere. The audience was convinced that Stasio Wiater's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Folke Gabrielsson was relentless in the 26th minute of the game. Folke Gabrielsson made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Maciej Pietrowski in the 30th minute of play. Stasio Wiater recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 33rd minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. In the 38th minute, Igor Burdzel hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After 43 played minutes IFK Kik got a freekick which was hit by Christopher Söderberg. After 44 played minutes KP Karmel got a freekick which was hit by Maciej Pietrowski. Krish Melin did some fancy footwork in front of goal and succeeded to deceive the defenders so he could slam the ball in 1-2 to the left of a surprised Jacek Fleszar 47 minutes into the match.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Stasio Wiater to make the kick off. After 56 played minutes, KP Karmel's Radoslaw Kajder shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Folke Gabrielsson came through and got his fingers on the ball before it flew over the goal line. He then quickly gripped the ball tighter before the forwards in KP Karmel reached it. In the 58th play minute Maciej Pietrowski came free and shot an unsuspected shot which went into goal from the right pole behind a surprised Folke Gabrielsson. 1-3. After a rather tough play, KP Karmel's Stasio Wiater got a free kick in the 60th minute. In the 65th minute, Maciej Pietrowski ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Folke Gabrielsson was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-4. A collision led to IFK Kik getting a freekick after 68 minutes play. Stig Browall hit a great ball. Stig Browall kicked well hit freekick during the 69th minute of the match. Stasio Wiater fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 79th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Folke Gabrielsson having to interfere. A collision led to IFK Kik getting a freekick after 86 minutes play. Charlie Jakobsson hit a great ball. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Erling Bolin in the 92nd managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Jacek Fleszar saved KP Karmel from getting behind. When the match had gone on for 94 minutes, Stasio Wiater took a quick shot and it went in 1-5 without a chance for Folke Gabrielsson to make any attempt to save it. In the 98th minute, Zacarias Nerio hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. When the match was over KP Karmel could go home with a victory in their luggage, having controlled the game far better than IFK Kik throughout the match.