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Match Report
St James Park
Spectators: 50 (Terracing: 38,
Seating: 11, VIP seats: 1) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Cassius Byrne started the match with the kick off. If Severiano Oliverio had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 4th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. After 7 played minutes Kania Gostyń got a freekick which was hit by Wiktor Falkiewicz. In the 9th minute, Alessio Mao ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Marco Day was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-0. Boruc Furgal showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Monty Rogers, who was totally free with the ball in the 13th minute. 16 minutes into the match, Kania Gostyń's goal looked a bit too open when Monty Rogers came free, but Boruc Furgal reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Alessio Mao fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 18th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Marco Day having to interfere. Boruc Furgal took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cassius Byrne, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Boruc Furgal showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Cassius Byrne, who was totally free with the ball in the 23rd minute. 28 minutes into the match, Kania Gostyń's goal looked a bit too open when Cassius Byrne came free, but Boruc Furgal reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 32nd minute, Monty Rogers ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Boruc Furgal was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-1. Boruc Furgal made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Cassius Byrne in the 39th minute of play. With an all-out effort, Kania Gostyń's Marco Day threw himself towards the right post 44 minutes into the match and grabbed hold of the ball from Wiktor Falkiewicz, which otherwise would have been placed in the net. Af the end of the first half the score was 3-1. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.
The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Alessio Mao was the one to do the kick off. In the 51st minute, Koby Fletcher hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. USA's Marco Day played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Adam Wnukowski in the 52nd minute of play. 54 minutes into the match, USA's goal looked a bit too open when Wiktor Falkiewicz came free, but Marco Day reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Alessio Mao received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 56th minute. Marco Day tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. After 62 minutes of play, USA's Cassius Byrne made it 3-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Boruc Furgal was left in no man's land by his defense there! Kania Gostyń's defense didn't have a chance, in the 70th minute, when Cassius Byrne scored to the left of an out of position Boruc Furgal, making the score, 3-3. Kania Gostyń made a substitution. Arnold Baaijen replaced Alin Niculiță. Kania Gostyń's Konstanty Domalik was substituted for Wiktor Falkiewicz. Kania Gostyń made a substitution. Papo Seco replaced Remigiusz Kazanowski. 75 minutes into the match, USA's goal looked a bit too open when Konstanty Domalik came free, but Marco Day reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. An unexpectedly hard shot by Monty Rogers in the 76th minute of play forced Kania Gostyń's goalkeeper Boruc Furgal to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Marco Day showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Konstanty Domalik, who was totally free with the ball in the 80th minute. USA's Khalid Parry was substituted for Monty Rogers. In the 82nd minute Kania Gostyń were awarded a corner. Adam Wnukowski went to the cornerflag to take it. A nice corner shot did that Arda Ozan Ulubek got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Marco Day quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. After 88 minutes Kania Gostyń's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Jenson Smith who took care of the corner kick. The audience thought a goal was coming when Sam Campbell got free with Boruc Furgal in the 91st minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. After some careless play in the USA defense, Adam Wnukowski kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Marco Day. The USA fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Marco Day should have stopped the shot.
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