League Play-Off

Uttoxeter Park
Spectators: 41 (Terracing: 32, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Pavel Logunov started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. Anton Bagdasaryan hit a great freekick 6 minutes into the match. After 7 minutes, Ippolit Berman mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Bingley City and the Uttoxeter AFC players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 8th minute, Yakov Vertinskiy sent off a long shot on goal, but the shot was nowhere near the goal and Bingley City's Afanasiy Merzlikin didn't even have to move. Vasiliy Kanbekov showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Vasiliy Anyukov in the 14th minute of the match. Pavel Logunov sent away a hard shot on goal in the 15th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Pavel Logunov fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 20th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Vasiliy Kanbekov having to interfere. If Vasiliy Anyukov had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 22nd minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. After some fancy dribbling in the 29th minute, Vasiliy Anyukov managed to get in a good position for a shot. Bingley City's supporters rose to their feet, but Vasiliy Anyukov was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Vasiliy Kanbekov breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. In the 32nd minute, Sevastyan Erofeev hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Afanasiy Merzlikin made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Andrey Chichin in the 43rd minute of play. Pavel Logunov recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 44th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. No-one was surprised that the home team were leading 1-0 at half-time.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Andrey Chichin to strike the kick off in the second half. Bingley City's Afanasiy Merzlikin played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Yaroslav Kunyaev in the 52nd minute of play. Afanasiy Merzlikin made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Yaroslav Kunyaev in the 56th minute of play. Pavel Logunov fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 57th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Vasiliy Kanbekov having to interfere. Andrey Chichin fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 64th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Afanasiy Merzlikin having to interfere. An unexpected shot in the 71st minute by Pavel Logunov got the crowd on their feet, but to their dismay it went out on the left side. Erast Afanasev charged in rather forcefully in the 74th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Erast Afanasev the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. After 74 played minutes Bingley City got a freekick which was hit by Erast Afanasev. Andrey Chichin sent away a hard shot on goal in the 77th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. With an all-out effort, Bingley City's Vasiliy Kanbekov threw himself towards the right post 81 minutes into the match and grabbed hold of the ball from Pavel Logunov, which otherwise would have been placed in the net. After having played for 86 minutes, Andrey Chichin managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Uttoxeter AFC's supporters crossed their fingers, but Andrey Chichin was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Pavel Logunov sent away a hard shot on goal in the 90th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Kirill Volskiy's late challenge caught a Bingley City's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Kirill Volskiy helped the player get up and apologised. After a rather tough play, Uttoxeter AFC's Kirill Volskiy got a free kick in the 92nd minute. Pavel Logunov received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 93rd minute. Vasiliy Kanbekov tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Bingley City's supporters were dissatisfied at the end of the match because Uttoxeter AFC had won, even though Bingley City had held more of the ball.