U23 World League

Centenario Chaco
Spectators: 7695 (Terracing: 5772, Seating: 1770, VIP seats: 153) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Brendan Otto got the match started through his kick off. Tobias Elizardo showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Brendan Otto in the 3rd minute of the match. 10 minutes into the match, Sarmiento de Resistencia's Rodolfo Guerau sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Trenton Call narrowly saved just below the crossbar. A throw-in in the 11th minute of the game was made by Stewart Cruz with Ari Holcomb as target, who quickly passed the ball forward. In the 12th minute, Froilan Sarmiento hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Markus Montano hit a great freekick 14 minutes into the match. In the 19th minute Brendan Otto shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Tobias Elizardo saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Tobias Elizardo showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Brendan Otto in the 23rd minute of the match. Sarmiento de Resistencia's Tobias Elizardo played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Jerome Negron in the 26th minute of play. 28 minutes into the match, Sarmiento de Resistencia's Rodolfo Guerau sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Trenton Call narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Rodolfo Guerau could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 32nd minute of the match, but Trenton Call made a huge save. Sarmiento de Resistencia's Tobias Elizardo played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Ari Holcomb in the 39th minute of play. Tobias Elizardo showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Ari Holcomb, who was totally free with the ball in the 39th minute. In the 41st minute the ball was on its way in behind Black Knights FC's goalkeeper Trenton Call, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. Stewart Cruz made in the 46th minute of the game a throw-in that took a bad bounce and was taken care of by Sarmiento de Resistencia's Alberto Sarmiento. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-1 lead.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Rodolfo Guerau to make the kick off. After some fancy dribbling in the 51st minute, Rodolfo Guerau managed to get in a good position for a shot. Sarmiento de Resistencia's supporters rose to their feet, but Rodolfo Guerau was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Trenton Call breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Simon Criston kicked well hit freekick during the 52nd minute of the match. Tobias Elizardo showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from George Cao Xiao, who was totally free with the ball in the 53rd minute. In the 54th match minute, Sarmiento de Resistencia was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Alberto Sarmiento to maneuver through the defense. Tobias Elizardo made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Brendan Otto in the 56th minute of play. Through an outstanding action, after 61 minutes, Tobias Elizardo successfully got his hands on the ball before it slid into the goal at the right post. Tobias Elizardo showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Brendan Otto, who was totally free with the ball in the 63rd minute. Tobias Elizardo made a fantastic save in the 68th minute, when Markus Montano sent off a good shot on target. With an all-out effort, Black Knights FC's Tobias Elizardo threw himself towards the right post 70 minutes into the match and grabbed hold of the ball from Jerome Negron, which otherwise would have been placed in the net. After 72 minutes Sarmiento de Resistencia's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was George Cao Xiao who took care of the corner kick. Sarmiento de Resistencia's Tobias Elizardo proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 75th minute of the match, managed to save Sarmiento de Resistencia from getting a goal against them. Brendan Otto scored 0-2 in the 78th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Tobias Elizardo, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. With a little luck, Sarmiento de Resistencia's Tobias Elizardo got control of the ball when Ari Holcomb tried to sneak it across the goal line. After 90 played minutes Sarmiento de Resistencia got a freekick which was hit by Rodolfo Guerau. Sarmiento de Resistencia's goalkeeper couldn't reach when Brendan Otto 92 minutes into the game got a good kick on the ball which found its way into goal just inside left pole. 0-3. After 95 played minutes Black Knights FC got a freekick which was hit by Brendan Otto. Black Knights FC's fans were overjoyed with their teams well-earned victory and stayed in the stadium long after the final whistle to celebrate the win.