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SF City Stadion
Spectators: 5000 (Terracing: 4000, Seating: 1000, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Slaveyko Lyubomirov started the match with the kick off. Evrosi Politov charged in rather forcefully in the 3rd minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Evrosi Politov the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. In the 3rd match minute, Galatasaray SK was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Evrosi Politov to maneuver through the defense. In the 4th minute, Asparuh Nakev hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After a rather tough play, Sofia City's Temelko Severov got a free kick in the 10th minute. Asparuh Nakev kicked well hit freekick during the 12th minute of the match. The audience was convinced that Evstati Komitski's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Simeon Kabakov was relentless in the 14th minute of the game. After 17 minutes of play Galatasaray SK's Evrosi Politov was too eager in his attempt to stop his opponent and brought him down. With that he got his second yellow card and was ordered off the ground. Sofia City's Simeon Kabakov played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Momchil Vatahov in the 21st minute of play. Denko Kishev made a fantastic save in the 28th minute, when Slaveyko Lyubomirov sent off a good shot on target. After 33 minutes of play, Galatasaray SK's Momchil Vatahov made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Simeon Kabakov was left in no man's land by his defense there! Delcho Kraevski's late challenge caught a Galatasaray SK's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Delcho Kraevski helped the player get up and apologised. In the 36th minute, Delcho Kraevski hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 38th minute, Slaveyko Lyubomirov left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Sofia City fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 1-1. A collision led to Galatasaray SK getting a freekick after 40 minutes play. Asparuh Nakev hit a great ball. Dragomir Yakimov charged in rather forcefully in the 43rd minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Dragomir Yakimov the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. Dragomir Yakimov hit a great freekick 43 minutes into the match. After some fancy dribbling in the 45th minute, Momchil Vatahov managed to get in a good position for a shot. Galatasaray SK's supporters rose to their feet, but Momchil Vatahov was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Simeon Kabakov breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick.

In the 52nd minute, Dragolyub Shterev hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. If Zhivko Aydarov had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 56th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. An unexpectedly hard shot by Slaveyko Lyubomirov in the 56th minute of play forced Galatasaray SK's goalkeeper Denko Kishev to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 56 minutes into the match, Slaveyko Lyubomirov notched a goal, 2-1, to the right of Galatasaray SK's Denko Kishev. Denko Kishev was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Nesho Bobekov fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 64th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Simeon Kabakov having to interfere. An unexpectedly hard shot by Momchil Vatahov in the 65th minute of play forced Sofia City's goalkeeper Simeon Kabakov to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Sofia City's Simeon Kabakov played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Momchil Vatahov in the 76th minute of play. Evstati Komitski kicked well hit freekick during the 77th minute of the match. Denko Kishev made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Slaveyko Lyubomirov in the 79th minute of play. Asparuh Nakev scored 3-3 in the 80th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Simeon Kabakov, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Dragolyub Shterev kicked well hit freekick during the 84th minute of the match. Teodor Popnikolov lost his temper 86 minutes into the game and shoved another player to the ground. He was immediately shown a red card. 86 minutes into the game, one of Galatasaray SK:s players got tackled near the goal, and the referee blew for a penalty. In the 88th minute there was a penalty for Sofia City. Dragomir Yakimov stepped forward and shot the ball to the right of a diving Denko Kishev. 4-3. Denko Kishev showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Slaveyko Lyubomirov in the 91st minute of the match. In the 92nd minute, Asparuh Nakev 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. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Slaveyko Lyubomirov in the 97th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Denko Kishev saved Galatasaray SK from getting behind. With a little luck, Sofia City's Simeon Kabakov got control of the ball when Evstati Komitski tried to sneak it across the goal line. The Sofia City players were eager to celebrate when the final whistle sounded. They had somehow managed to win, even though the away team had held the majority of the possession.