U23 World League

Keleler
Spectators: 7495 (Terracing: 5622, Seating: 1724, VIP seats: 149) Božidar Iskrenov hit a great freekick 3 minutes into the match. The supporters of VN Keleler booed when TALLERES was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 4 match minutes in a wonderful position. Nahuel Bustos didn't get a good kick on the ball. Lilcho Arsov showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Guaberto Fertus in the 11th minute of the match. Guaberto Fertus's late challenge caught a VN Keleler's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Guaberto Fertus helped the player get up and apologised. In the 12th match minute, TALLERES was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Guaberto Fertus to maneuver through the defense. Mario Cuenca showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Nikola Kotkov in the 14th minute of the match. Nahuel Bustos received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 18th minute. Lilcho Arsov tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. VN Keleler's Serafim Búrzakov got a good chance for a goal in the 21st minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. When Nestor Fonso came up free with the goalie in the 24th minute, the TALLERES 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 Nestor Fonso couldn't finish the play. In the 27th minute the ball was on its way in behind VN Keleler's goalkeeper Lilcho Arsov, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. 28 minutes had been played when some careless play by VN Keleler's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Fabian Arnalt was slow to take the kick. During this time TALLERES's players had a chance to rest. A nice corner shot did that Fabian Arnalt got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Lilcho Arsov quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. Mario Cuenca made a fantastic save in the 41st minute, when Daniel Dragnev sent off a good shot on target. In the 43rd minute, Ognyan Labov reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Mario Cuenca. The goal made the score 1-0. An unexpectedly hard shot by Nikola Kotkov in the 46th minute of play forced TALLERES's goalkeeper Mario Cuenca to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The home fans were very happy to see their team leading 1-0 at half-time.

When Božidar Iskrenov came up free with the goalie in the 50th minute, the VN Keleler 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 Božidar Iskrenov couldn't finish the play. In the 57th minute, Nestor Fonso reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Lilcho Arsov. The goal made the score 1-1. The referee felt a red card was in order, 60 minutes into the game, when Nunez Urdaspal put in a rough tackle. 65 minutes into the game, Serafim Búrzakov cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 3-1. Mario Cuenca was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. After 68 minutes, Serafim Búrzakov made it 4-1 with a short kick to the right side. TALLERES's Mario Cuenca tried to save the shot but he was too slow in reacting to the shot. After 71 minutes of play, VN Keleler's Nikola Kotkov made it 5-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Mario Cuenca was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 76th minute, Nikola Kotkov left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The VN Keleler fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 6-1. 79 minutes into the match, Nikola Kotkov notched a goal, 7-1, to the right of TALLERES's Mario Cuenca. Mario Cuenca was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. After some careless play in the TALLERES defense, Nikola Kotkov kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Mario Cuenca. The TALLERES fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Mario Cuenca should have stopped the shot. In the 91st minute, Nahuel Bustos hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Mario Cuenca made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Nikola Kotkov in the 92nd minute of play. Mario Cuenca took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Nikola Kotkov, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. It was no surprise that this one had ended in a win for the home team. VN Keleler had played much better football throughout.