World League

Ciudad de Batán
Spectators: 7711 (Terracing: 5785, Seating: 1773, VIP seats: 153) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Acácio Nogueira got the match started through his kick off. 3 minutes into the match, Fc Molina di Quosa's goal looked a bit too open when Acácio Nogueira came free, but Jiří Kiss reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Ni Le Zheng showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Pavel Lukšík, who was totally free with the ball in the 7th minute. The throw-in from Armando Padula in the 11th minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by AC Batán's Sait Baray. After a defensive mix-up in AC Batán's zone, Pavel Lukšík stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Ni Le Zheng came out of the goal and Pavel Lukšík tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Ni Le Zheng showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Pavel Lukšík in the 24th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Acácio Nogueira in the 25th minute of play forced Fc Molina di Quosa's goalkeeper Jiří Kiss to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. AC Batán's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Gong Feng in the 29th minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Edoardo Corna in the 30th minute of play forced AC Batán's goalkeeper Ni Le Zheng to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After having played for 34 minutes, Acácio Nogueira managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. AC Batán's supporters crossed their fingers, but Acácio Nogueira was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Ni Le Zheng showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Pavel Lukšík in the 40th minute of the match. Pavel Lukšík took the ball and in the 43 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Ni Le Zheng. Ni Le Zheng dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 1-1. An unexpectedly hard shot by Edoardo Corna in the 46th minute of play forced AC Batán's goalkeeper Ni Le Zheng to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The long shot by Gong Feng in the 48th minute really tested Jiří Kiss's skills. The ball was on its way into the goal to the left of him when he managed to stretch himself and save the shot and avoid a goal.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Edoardo Corna to strike the kick off in the second half. Fc Molina di Quosa's Jiří Kiss played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Acácio Nogueira in the 55th minute of play. Pavel Lukšík fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 56th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Ni Le Zheng having to interfere. After 67 minutes of play, AC Batán's Acácio Nogueira made it 2-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Jiří Kiss was left in no man's land by his defense there! The supporters of Fc Molina di Quosa booed when AC Batán was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 71 match minutes in a wonderful position. José Carlos da Silveira didn't get a good kick on the ball. In the 72nd minute, Edoardo Corna reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Ni Le Zheng. The goal made the score 2-2. Jiří Kiss took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Acácio Nogueira, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Jiří Kiss didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Acácio Nogueira went, in the 84th minute, to the upper right corner, 3-2 was the resulting score. AC Batán made a substitution. Cido Cardozo replaced Acácio Nogueira. In the 91st minute Cido Cardozo shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Jiří Kiss saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Dino Colonna's late challenge caught a AC Batán's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Dino Colonna helped the player get up and apologised. 4-2 became the score in the 95th minute when Cristoforo Di Ruscio elegantly shot the ball into goal just under the crossbar. The referee blew his whistle, and the match came to a close. The players exchanged shirts and headed down the tunnel. The AC Batán fans cheered their team off the field, for while Fc Molina di Quosa had put up a good fight, they were unable to come out of the game with any points to show for their effort.