U23 World League

Legion Arena
Spectators: 7520 (Terracing: 5630, Seating: 1740, VIP seats: 150) Stuart Brayson started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. After having played for 4 minutes, Stuart Brayson managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Gone With the Win's supporters crossed their fingers, but Stuart Brayson was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Stuart Brayson's late challenge caught a MKS Legion Częstochowa's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Stuart Brayson helped the player get up and apologised. In the 11th match minute, Gone With the Win was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Stuart Brayson to maneuver through the defense. Jimeno Velasco showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Stuart Brayson, who was totally free with the ball in the 16th minute. The crowd rose to their feet as MKS Legion Częstochowa's Rafal Gmoch slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Ed Ingram. That made the score 1-0 after 20 minutes of play. Lawrence Carroll sent away a hard shot on goal in the 23rd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Adhemar Secco blasted a shot towards the goal in the 27th minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Ed Ingram having to make a save. Darryl Forrest kicked well hit freekick during the 31st minute of the match. After 34 minutes of play, Gone With the Win's Stuart Brayson made it 1-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Jimeno Velasco was left in no man's land by his defense there! Adhemar Secco received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 37th minute. Ed Ingram tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Ed Ingram showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Valter Festas in the 39th minute of the match. After a rather tough play, MKS Legion Częstochowa's Adhemar Secco got a free kick in the 41st minute. After a very even first half the match was still tied. The players went to their respective dressing rooms to discuss the tactics for the second half.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Valter Festas to strike the kick off in the second half. Jimmy Mulford fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 53rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Jimeno Velasco having to interfere. Ed Ingram didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Valter Festas went, in the 59th minute, to the upper right corner, 2-1 was the resulting score. MKS Legion Częstochowa's Adhemar Secco got a good chance for a goal in the 65th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. In the 73rd minute, Valter Festas 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. Ludomir Psotka's late challenge caught a Gone With the Win's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Ludomir Psotka helped the player get up and apologised. Jez Mabbutt hit a great freekick 84 minutes into the match. Marek Kirk hit a great freekick 86 minutes into the match. Rafal Gmoch missed a clear chance of a goal when in the 88 minute of the game fired away a shot, but unfortunally the ball went out to the Ed Ingram right hand side. In the 93rd minute, Zachary Naskrent left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The MKS Legion Częstochowa fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 3-1. If Valter Festas had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 99th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. When the referee ended the match the MKS Legion Częstochowa players were able to celebrate. They had won a fair victory and recieved the ovations of their fans.