U21 World League

C.V. Spartan Stadium
Spectators: 7572 (Terracing: 5680, Seating: 1741, VIP seats: 151) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Charlie Bravo made the kick off which started today's match. In the 3rd minute, S.D. Bajen's Charlie Bravo dribbled the ball into the box and hit a shot with the outside of his foot, sending the keeper the wrong way. 1-0. Charlie Bravo received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Panos Karnezis came out and tried to block the shot, but Charlie Bravo slotted it home off the left post making it 2-0 in the 6th minute. Konstantinos Kounenakis's late challenge caught a S.D. Bajen's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Konstantinos Kounenakis helped the player get up and apologised. In the 8th minute, Konstantinos Kounenakis hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Tony Kirby recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 10th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. 11 minutes into the match, GOD OF WAR's goalkeeper Panos Karnezis had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Jorge Baez. After 14 minutes of play, S.D. Bajen's Charlie Bravo made it 3-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Panos Karnezis was left in no man's land by his defense there! The crowd rose to their feet as Brent Cowan kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Panos Karnezis. That made the score 4-0 in the 17 minute of play. 21 minutes had been played when some careless play by S.D. Bajen's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Kostas Belesis was slow to take the kick. During this time GOD OF WAR's players had a chance to rest. Fondas Sakaridis made a great header on GOD OF WAR's corner, it was just that S.D. Bajen's Bret Caudill managed to reach the ball for a save. In the 28th minute, Argyris Staboulis ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Bret Caudill was frozen by the shot and now it was 4-1. In the 34th minute, Charlie Bravo ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Panos Karnezis was frozen by the shot and now it was 5-1. Konstantinos Kounenakis was shown his second yellow card after 36 minutes, following a rather ugly tackle on opponent. That was the end of his participation in the match. A collision led to GOD OF WAR getting a freekick after 37 minutes play. Konstantinos Kounenakis hit a great ball. After a rather tough play, GOD OF WAR's Stamatis Kazatzidis got a free kick in the 39th minute. Brent Cowan took a chance and fired a shot far from the goal in the 40th minute, but it turned out to be a dangerous situation for Panos Karnezis. GOD OF WAR's goalkeeper really had to stretch himself to stop the ball from crossing the goal line. After a rather tough play, S.D. Bajen's Jorge Baez got a free kick in the 40th minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Charlie Bravo in the 43rd minute of play forced GOD OF WAR's goalkeeper Panos Karnezis to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 48 minutes into the match, GOD OF WAR's goalkeeper Panos Karnezis had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Jorge Baez.

The wind increased when Argyris Staboulis made the kick off in the second half. Panos Karnezis showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Charlie Bravo in the 52nd minute of the match. GOD OF WAR's Thrasivoulos Neopidis got a good chance for a goal in the 61st minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. In the 76th minute, Charlie Bravo left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The S.D. Bajen fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 6-1. S.D. Bajen's Darius Seals was substituted for Jorge Baez. After having played for 82 minutes, 董岚城 managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. S.D. Bajen's supporters crossed their fingers, but 董岚城 was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. After some careless play in the GOD OF WAR defense, Charlie Bravo kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Panos Karnezis. The GOD OF WAR fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Panos Karnezis should have stopped the shot. In the 90th minute, Thanasis Toris got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. S.D. Bajen's supporters were delighted with their team's performance and swarmed onto the pitch at the end of the match to celebrate the victory with the players.