U23 World League

Thunder Stadium
Spectators: 7693 (Terracing: 5771, Seating: 1769, VIP seats: 153) In the 2nd minute, Felice Paolini hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Desiderio Endura showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Davide Onori in the 5th minute of the match. In the 6th minute Ettore Amadei shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Desiderio Endura saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. SOUTH THUNDER's Desiderio Endura played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Ettore Amadei in the 6th minute of play. After 12 minutes of play, Lunatics of Arianrhod's Ettore Amadei made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Desiderio Endura was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 20thth minute of the game Davide Onori who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but SOUTH THUNDER's Desiderio Endura was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Davide Onori in the 22nd minute of play forced SOUTH THUNDER's goalkeeper Desiderio Endura to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. SOUTH THUNDER's Desiderio Endura played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Davide Onori in the 23rd minute of play. Lunatics of Arianrhod's Davide Onori managed to work through SOUTH THUNDER's defense and was going for an easy goal, but he hit the shot with his toe and the ball flew outside the goal. Davide Onori dejectedly held out his arms as if to ask why the ball hadn't gone in. Amerigo Melucci received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 27th minute. Desiderio Endura tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Ermanno Di Franco sent away a hard shot on goal in the 29th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. After 36 played minutes SOUTH THUNDER got a freekick which was hit by Augusto Raymond. Davide Onori recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 37th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. Desiderio Endura showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Ettore Amadei, who was totally free with the ball in the 40th minute. Desiderio Endura took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Ettore Amadei, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Desiderio Endura showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Davide Onori, who was totally free with the ball in the 44th minute. After 47 minutes of play, Lunatics of Arianrhod's Ettore Amadei made it 0-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Desiderio Endura was left in no man's land by his defense there! The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-2.

With a little luck, SOUTH THUNDER's Desiderio Endura got control of the ball when Elia Liaci tried to sneak it across the goal line. Desiderio Endura made an important save on a dangerous shot by Elia Liaci in the 61st minute. After some careless play in the SOUTH THUNDER defense, Ettore Amadei kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Desiderio Endura. The SOUTH THUNDER fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Desiderio Endura should have stopped the shot. In the 68th minute Ettore Amadei shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Desiderio Endura saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Desiderio Endura made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Elia Liaci in the 77th minute of play. In the 80th minute, Elia Liaci ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Desiderio Endura was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-4. The crowd rose to their feet as Lunatics of Arianrhod's Amerigo Melucci slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Desiderio Endura. That made the score 0-6 after 87 minutes of play. Elia Liaci got a fine position in front of goal ttaking advantage of the opportunity to rumble in 0-7 in the right cross in the 91st match minute before Desiderio Endura had time to react. In the 95th minute, Pablo Solari hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Desiderio Endura made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Elia Liaci in the 96th minute of play. Ettore Amadei was really disappointed when he shot the ball just outside the right post instead of scoring a goal in the 97th minute. Lunatics of Arianrhod's manager could be seen on the sidelines shaking his head and muttering to himself as his team had just wasted another chance. Lunatics of Arianrhod's players went to the stands to thank the travelling support. The fan's backing had helped spurr the team on to a fine performance that won them the match.