U18 World League

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Spectators: 7691 (Terracing: 5769, Seating: 1769, VIP seats: 153) Begu Ganjang's Dewa Šuto started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. Mircea Necșulescu's late challenge caught a Begu Ganjang's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Mircea Necșulescu helped the player get up and apologised. A collision led to TAXI-MM- getting a freekick after 12 minutes play. Mircea Necșulescu hit a great ball. The audience was convinced that Dewa Šuto's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Damian Şoiman was relentless in the 13th minute of the game. Panait Ferenț charged in rather forcefully in the 20th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Panait Ferenț the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. In the 22nd minute, Yoyo Yom hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Ridwan Barus's late challenge caught a TAXI-MM-'s player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Ridwan Barus helped the player get up and apologised. After a rather tough play, Begu Ganjang's Ridwan Barus got a free kick in the 25th minute. Damian Şoiman showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Dodi Hermansyah, who was totally free with the ball in the 28th minute. Mircea Necșulescu sent away a hard shot on goal in the 29th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Damian Şoiman showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Wendy Widura, who was totally free with the ball in the 32nd minute. 35 minutes into the game, Matei Chelbea was given a yellow card after he appeared to trip an opposing player. TAXI-MM-'s manager was livid on the sidelines, but the referee was unmoved and gave Begu Ganjang the free kick. A collision led to TAXI-MM- getting a freekick after 35 minutes play. Matei Chelbea hit a great ball. In the 38th match minute, Begu Ganjang was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Yoyo Yom to maneuver through the defense. Damian Şoiman made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Dewa Šuto in the 43rd minute of play. In the 47th minute, Wendy Widura ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Damian Şoiman was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-1.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Ernest Strugure to make the kick off. An unexpected shot in the 58th minute by Virgiawan Soeprapto got the crowd on their feet, but to their dismay it went out on the left side. In the 60th minute Ernest Strugure shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Buyung Tendean saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Begu Ganjang's Ridwan Barus got his second yellow card of the match in the 61st minute. The referee ordered Ridwan Barus off the ground. A collision led to Begu Ganjang getting a freekick after 62 minutes play. Ridwan Barus hit a great ball. When Matei Chelbea was, once again, overly rough in his play he received his second yellow card and was ordered off the ground. 66 minutes had been played. In the 66th minute, Matei Chelbea hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After 70 played minutes TAXI-MM- got a freekick which was hit by Mircea Necșulescu. If Virgiawan Soeprapto had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 76th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Aurelian Tunaru charged in rather forcefully in the 84th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Aurelian Tunaru the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. Aurelian Tunaru kicked well hit freekick during the 84th minute of the match. In the 85th minute, Begu Ganjang's Dewa Šuto ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind Damian Şoiman. Damian Şoiman yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 1-2. 88 minutes into the game, Dewa Šuto cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 1-3. Damian Şoiman was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. In the 95th minute, Mircea Necșulescu hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 96 minutes into the match, TAXI-MM-'s goal looked a bit too open when Dewa Šuto came free, but Damian Şoiman reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. When the match was over Begu Ganjang could go home with a victory in their luggage, having controlled the game far better than TAXI-MM- throughout the match.