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Struga City
Spectators: 10850 (Terracing: 8139, Seating: 2495, VIP seats: 216) Kiprijan Trajkov started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. 3 minutes into the match, ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Gustavo Mourato sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Agron Kostov narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Sultan-Mehmet Khan's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but Agron Kostov read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 4th minute of play. Eurico Dias was in a good position and managed to take a shot, but he missed just to the outside of the post. Agron Kostov made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Jiang Nan Song in the 7th minute of play. In the 8th minute, Andrej Milenkov hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 9 minutes into the game, ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Sultan-Mehmet Khan nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Agron Kostov made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 0-1. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Jiang Nan Song in the 13th minute. In the 21st minute, Sultan-Mehmet Khan 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. 28 minutes into the game, ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Sultan-Mehmet Khan nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Agron Kostov made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 0-4. STRUGA's Agron Kostov played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Sultan-Mehmet Khan in the 31st minute of play. 32 minutes had been played when some careless play by STRUGA's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Jiang Nan Song was slow to take the kick. During this time ✩ Pep Team ✩'s players had a chance to rest. The goalkeeper smacked the ball away after a great corner, but Gustavo Mourato advanced and headed the ball into goal, 0-5 in the 33rd minute. In the 36thth minute of the game Sultan-Mehmet Khan who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but STRUGA's Agron Kostov was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Agron Kostov took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Sultan-Mehmet Khan, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. When Sultan-Mehmet Khan came up free with the goalie in the 38th minute, the ✩ Pep Team ✩ 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 Sultan-Mehmet Khan couldn't finish the play. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Iurie Cobzar got a good chance for a goal in the 41st minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Mihajlo Sazdanoski charged in rather forcefully in the 44th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Mihajlo Sazdanoski the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. Sultan-Mehmet Khan took the ball and in the 45 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Agron Kostov. Agron Kostov dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 0-6. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-6 lead.

The crowd rose to their feet as Sultan-Mehmet Khan kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Agron Kostov. That made the score 0-7 in the 52 minute of play. After some careless play in the ✩ Pep Team ✩ defense, Kiprijan Trajkov kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Spase Kastrati. The ✩ Pep Team ✩ fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Spase Kastrati should have stopped the shot. In the 67th match minute, ✩ Pep Team ✩ was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Sultan-Mehmet Khan to maneuver through the defense. 70 minutes into the match, STRUGA's goalkeeper Agron Kostov had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Sultan-Mehmet Khan. 71 minutes into the match, Sultan-Mehmet Khan dribbled the ball past the defender and swiftly kicked the ball to the left of Agron Kostov, 1-8. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Sultan-Mehmet Khan got a good chance for a goal in the 74th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Sultan-Mehmet Khan fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 77th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Agron Kostov having to interfere. In the 80th minute, Sultan-Mehmet Khan ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Agron Kostov was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-9. Ratko Sofronieski made in the 85th minute of the game a sloppy throw-in which Andrej Milenkov however managed to control. Sultan-Mehmet Khan sent away a hard shot on goal in the 88th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. The audience thought a goal was coming when Sultan-Mehmet Khan got free with Agron Kostov in the 88th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. STRUGA's Agron Kostov proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 89th minute of the match, managed to save STRUGA from getting a goal against them. In the 90th minute Sultan-Mehmet Khan shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Agron Kostov saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. With his leg Agron Kostov managed to avoid a goal in the 93rdth minute, when ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Sultan-Mehmet Khan fired away a shot with a lot of spin towards his right hand side. Kiprijan Trajkov sent away a hard shot on goal in the 94th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. In the 95th minute, Andrej Milenkov hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s fans were overjoyed with their teams well-earned victory and stayed in the stadium long after the final whistle to celebrate the win.