World League

Air Albania
Spectators: 7675 (Terracing: 5757, Seating: 1765, VIP seats: 153) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Sultan-Mehmet Khan made the kick off which started today's match. The audience was convinced that Claudio-Paul Caniggia's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Spase Kastrati was relentless in the 7th minute of the game. In the 8th minute of the match Deportivo Pucho got a corner. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Archie Litchfield ran over to the corner to take the kick. Deportivo Pucho's Józef Mlynarczyk proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 12th minute of the match, managed to save Deportivo Pucho from getting a goal against them. Sultan-Mehmet Khan blasted a shot towards the goal in the 13th minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Józef Mlynarczyk having to make a save. Jiang Nan Song could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 17th minute of the match, but Józef Mlynarczyk made a huge save. Spase Kastrati showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Julio Tolino in the 18th minute of the match. The audience was convinced that Claudio-Paul Caniggia's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Spase Kastrati was relentless in the 20th minute of the game. After 20 minutes, Claudio-Paul Caniggia made it 0-1 with a short kick to the right side. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Spase Kastrati tried to save the shot but he was too slow in reacting to the shot. Paulo Milio kicked well hit freekick during the 23rd minute of the match. Józef Mlynarczyk showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Sultan-Mehmet Khan, who was totally free with the ball in the 24th minute. A collision led to ✩ Pep Team ✩ getting a freekick after 29 minutes play. Sultan-Mehmet Khan hit a great ball. Julio Tolino sent away a hard shot on goal in the 30th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Spase Kastrati took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Östen Stor, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. When Deportivo Pucho's Östen Stor in the 39th minute got a chance for a shot 39th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye ✩ Pep Team ✩'s goalie prevented a goal. In the 40th minute Julio Tolino shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Spase Kastrati saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Jiang Nan Song got a good chance for a goal in the 41st minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Jiang Nan Song received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 46th minute. Józef Mlynarczyk tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-1 lead.

Deportivo Pucho's Ahmet Nasir Nesefi was substituted for Claudio-Paul Caniggia. The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Ahmet Nasir Nesefi stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. Spase Kastrati made a fantastic save in the 52nd minute, when Ahmet Nasir Nesefi sent off a good shot on target. The corner ended in Archie Litchfield almost managing to get the ball behind the net, but ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Spase Kastrati did a great save. When Östen Stor, who was free, got the in front of the goal in the 53 minute he wasn't focused and tipped the ball just over the goal. The Spase Kastrati was delighted since the ball would have got in if it had gone under the crossbar. 62 minutes into the game, Sultan-Mehmet Khan cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 1-1. Józef Mlynarczyk was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. Sultan-Mehmet Khan sent away a hard shot on goal in the 66th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Józef Mlynarczyk made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Sultan-Mehmet Khan in the 66th minute of play. Spase Kastrati made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Julio Tolino in the 67th minute of play. Józef Mlynarczyk didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Sultan-Mehmet Khan went, in the 78th minute, to the upper right corner, 2-1 was the resulting score. Spase Kastrati made an important save on a dangerous shot by Östen Stor in the 81st minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Ahmet Nasir Nesefi in the 86th minute of play forced ✩ Pep Team ✩'s goalkeeper Spase Kastrati to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After 87 minutes ✩ Pep Team ✩'s defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Archie Litchfield who took care of the corner kick. Vuk Aleksič tried in the 87th minute to hit away a contribution but miss-kicked the ball which ended up in his own goal and left an unhappy Spase Kastrati a with quite unnecessary self made goal. Result 2-2. A collision led to Deportivo Pucho getting a freekick after 90 minutes play. Prudentio Trespuentes hit a great ball. In the 92nd minute, Prudentio Trespuentes hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Józef Mlynarczyk showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Franck Gamel in the 94th minute of the match. In the 97th minute ✩ Pep Team ✩ were awarded a corner. Gustavo Mourato went to the cornerflag to take it. The corner led ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Gustavo Mourato to fire away a dangerous shot which Józef Mlynarczyk despite some difficulties managed to get hold on the ball. The final whistle blew with the score still tied, and both teams left the pitch thinking about the missed chances that could have given their team the win.