U18 World League

COLISEO PATAGONICO
Spectators: 7700 (Terracing: 5776, Seating: 1771, VIP seats: 153) Haroldo Jago started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. Lazar Tushev fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 13th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Gregorio Velasco having to interfere. After a defensive mix-up in VN BAKITO's zone, Anier Lucila stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Trayko Palikov came out of the goal and Anier Lucila tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. C.A Huracan's Gregorio Velasco played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Vangel Gevrenov in the 20th minute of play. Gregorio Velasco made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Lazar Tushev in the 27th minute of play. A collision led to VN BAKITO getting a freekick after 31 minutes play. Borimir Dragiev hit a great ball. In the 32nd minute of the match Aquiles Blasco sent off a long shot with destination to the right of the goalkeeper, but Trayko Palikov skillfully saved the ball. A collision led to C.A Huracan getting a freekick after 45 minutes play. Haroldo Jago hit a great ball. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-1.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Vangel Gevrenov was the one to do the kick off. In the 53rd minute Haroldo Jago shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Trayko Palikov saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Jorge Lore's late challenge caught a VN BAKITO's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Jorge Lore helped the player get up and apologised. A collision led to C.A Huracan getting a freekick after 55 minutes play. Jorge Lore hit a great ball. In the 57th minute, Lazar Tushev 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. In the 61st minute, Aquiles Blasco made a precise shot to the right of Trayko Palikov. VN BAKITO's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 1-1. Gregorio Velasco made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Yane Stranski in the 66th minute of play. After 68 played minutes VN BAKITO got a freekick which was hit by Denislav Pehlivanski. 69 minutes into the match, VN BAKITO's goal looked a bit too open when Anier Lucila came free, but Trayko Palikov reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. The audience was convinced that Haroldo Jago's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Trayko Palikov was relentless in the 70th minute of the game. Gregorio Velasco made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Velizar Yavrichev in the 71st minute of play. After 75 minutes of play, C.A Huracan's Delmiro Francis made it 2-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Trayko Palikov was left in no man's land by his defense there! Through an outstanding action, after 78 minutes, Gregorio Velasco successfully got his hands on the ball before it slid into the goal at the right post. After some careless play in the C.A Huracan defense, Yane Stranski kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Gregorio Velasco. The C.A Huracan fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Gregorio Velasco should have stopped the shot. Gregorio Velasco showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Velizar Yavrichev in the 84th minute of the match. Gregorio Velasco showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Yane Stranski in the 95th minute of the match. Despite being the better team, VN BAKITO failed to find the winning goal and were forced to settle for a single point.