U18 World League

GreenUnited Arena
Spectators: 7460 (Terracing: 5596, Seating: 1715, VIP seats: 149) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Zarbonin Sotuela started the match with the kick off. In the 6th minute Zarbonin Sotuela shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Radomil Smolarek saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. The corner ended in Lop Ramallal almost managing to get the ball behind the net, but FC Zarzyk's Radomil Smolarek did a great save. In the 9th minute, Gartzen Pons hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After some fancy dribbling in the 10th minute, Eugeniusz Kasperowicz managed to get in a good position for a shot. FC Zarzyk's supporters rose to their feet, but Eugeniusz Kasperowicz was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Xalbador Gamiz breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Domenico Solarriba kicked well hit freekick during the 11th minute of the match. Xalbador Gamiz came out of the goal in the 19th minute to try and stop a shot by FC Zarzyk's Zbyszek Gregorczyk. But to his dismay, Zbyszek Gregorczyk quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 0-1. Radomil Smolarek showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Zarbonin Sotuela in the 22nd minute of the match. After 25 minutes, Dariusz Hryc mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the FC Zarzyk and the GreenUnited players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 25th match minute, FC Zarzyk was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Dariusz Hryc to maneuver through the defense. When Zarbonin Sotuela came up free with the goalie in the 26th minute, the GreenUnited 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 Zarbonin Sotuela couldn't finish the play. Wlodzimierz Chlebek kicked well hit freekick during the 27th minute of the match. In the 28th minute the ball was on its way in behind FC Zarzyk's goalkeeper Radomil Smolarek, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. GreenUnited's Xalbador Gamiz played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Zbyszek Gregorczyk in the 32nd minute of play. Lop Ramallal sent away a hard shot on goal in the 44th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance.

With a couple of smart ball manuevers Igor Pietras in the 53rd managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Xalbador Gamiz saved GreenUnited from getting behind. Barnaba Jaks hit a great freekick 55 minutes into the match. The audience was convinced that Lop Ramallal's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Radomil Smolarek was relentless in the 58th minute of the game. The audience was convinced that Zarbonin Sotuela's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Radomil Smolarek was relentless in the 59th minute of the game. Radomil Smolarek didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when GreenUnited's Zarbonin Sotuela shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 2-1 in the ordered_time% minute. After a rather tough play, GreenUnited's Jacindo Llantaron got a free kick in the 63rd minute. When Zbyszek Gregorczyk fell near the penalty area in the 65th minute he thought he would be awarded a free kick. The referee ignored FC Zarzyk's protests and gave Zbyszek Gregorczyk a yellow card for diving instead. After a rather tough play, FC Zarzyk's Zbyszek Gregorczyk got a free kick in the 65th minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Lop Ramallal in the 69th minute of play forced FC Zarzyk's goalkeeper Radomil Smolarek to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After having played for 70 minutes, Igor Pietras managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. FC Zarzyk's supporters crossed their fingers, but Igor Pietras was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Igor Pietras received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Xalbador Gamiz came out and tried to block the shot, but Igor Pietras slotted it home off the left post making it 2-3 in the 80th minute. Zarbonin Sotuela fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 85th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Radomil Smolarek having to interfere. A collision led to GreenUnited getting a freekick after 91 minutes play. Elija Andres hit a great ball. An unexpected shot in the 94th minute by Dariusz Hryc got the crowd on their feet, but to their dismay it went out on the left side.