U18 World League

Gora Park
Spectators: 7709 (Terracing: 5783, Seating: 1773, VIP seats: 153) Lembit Õigus started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. After 3 minutes, Miloš Medenica mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Warriors of Gora™ and the FC Kopli players grew even worse after the yellow card. The supporters of FC Kopli booed when Warriors of Gora™ was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 3 match minutes in a wonderful position. Miloš Medenica didn't get a good kick on the ball. After a defensive mix-up in FC Kopli's zone, Feđa Zajić stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Aivar Laineste came out of the goal and Feđa Zajić tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Nenad Brajevac's shot straight on target was not completely harmless. The ball had pretty good speed, but Aivar Laineste firmly grabbed it by the left post. Martin Ütt's late challenge caught a Warriors of Gora™'s player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Martin Ütt helped the player get up and apologised. In the 14th minute, Martin Ütt hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 26 minutes into the match, Jann Leiten notched a goal, 0-1, to the right of Warriors of Gora™'s Njegovan Baletić. Njegovan Baletić was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. The crowd rose to their feet as Warriors of Gora™'s Feđa Zajić slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Aivar Laineste. That made the score 1-1 after 31 minutes of play. Maarek Laaser's late challenge caught a Warriors of Gora™'s player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Maarek Laaser helped the player get up and apologised. Aivar Laineste was a little too slow when Feđa Zajić got a fine hit on the ball which went right into the goal in the 37th minute. The score was now 2-1. Aivar Laineste made a fantastic save in the 40th minute, when Nenad Brajevac sent off a good shot on target. In the 45th minute, Srećko Bečanović ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Aivar Laineste was frozen by the shot and now it was 3-1. Af the end of the first half the score was 3-1. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Feđa Zajić to make the kick off. In the 51st match minute, Warriors of Gora™ was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Feđa Zajić to maneuver through the defense. If Miloš Medenica had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 54th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. After 56 minutes of play, Warriors of Gora™'s Srećko Bečanović made it 4-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Aivar Laineste was left in no man's land by his defense there! Aivar Laineste took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Feđa Zajić, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Srećko Bečanović took the ball and in the 62 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Aivar Laineste. Aivar Laineste dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 5-1. During the 66th minute of the match Martin Ütt completely mistimed his tackle and brought down his opponent. The referee gave Martin Ütt a yellow card, his second in the match, which meant he could no longer take part in the game. After 67 played minutes FC Kopli got a freekick which was hit by Martin Ütt. After a defensive mix-up in FC Kopli's zone, Nenad Brajevac stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Aivar Laineste came out of the goal and Nenad Brajevac tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Maarek Poltimäe's late challenge caught a Warriors of Gora™'s player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Maarek Poltimäe helped the player get up and apologised. A collision led to FC Kopli getting a freekick after 71 minutes play. Maarek Poltimäe hit a great ball. Feđa Zajić struck a weak shot in the 73rd minute. Aivar Laineste didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Warriors of Gora™. Jann Leiten fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 93rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Njegovan Baletić having to interfere. Njegovan Baletić made an important save on a dangerous shot by Jann Leiten in the 96th minute.