U18 World League

ifood Arena
Spectators: 7506 (Terracing: 5630, Seating: 1726, VIP seats: 150) Lino Diniz started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. Fabiano Lucas hit a great freekick 2 minutes into the match. Tomas Jonasson fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 7th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Alfredo Couto having to interfere. Alfredo Couto took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Kurt Björkman, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Tadeu Godoi charged in rather forcefully in the 9th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Tadeu Godoi the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. Alfredo Couto showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Tomas Jonasson in the 12th minute of the match. Alfredo Couto showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Lars-Erik Björk, who was totally free with the ball in the 14th minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Tomas Jonasson in the 15th minute of play forced Rapinantes F.C.'s goalkeeper Alfredo Couto to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Cauan de Azevedo kicked well hit freekick during the 15th minute of the match. 19 minutes into the match, Rapinantes F.C.'s goal looked a bit too open when Lars-Erik Björk came free, but Alfredo Couto reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Fabiano Lucas received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Mattias Löfkvist came out and tried to block the shot, but Fabiano Lucas slotted it home off the left post making it 1-0 in the 22nd minute. Lino Diniz fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 24th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Mattias Löfkvist having to interfere. An unexpectedly hard shot by Lars-Erik Björk in the 26th minute of play forced Rapinantes F.C.'s goalkeeper Alfredo Couto to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Lino Diniz fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 31st minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Mattias Löfkvist having to interfere. Alfredo Couto showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Tomas Jonasson in the 32nd minute of the match. Tomas Jonasson took the ball and in the 36 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Alfredo Couto. Alfredo Couto 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. Mattias Löfkvist acted impressively in front of the goal and made a superb save when he, in the 40th minute, took the ball on the long shot from Daniel Teles. Team Rocco's Mattias Löfkvist played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Lino Diniz in the 42nd minute of play. Tomas Jonasson scored 1-2 in the 44th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Alfredo Couto, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Marcel Carioca could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 48th minute of the match, but Mattias Löfkvist made a huge save.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Lars-Erik Björk was the one to do the kick off. Mattias Löfkvist made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Fabiano Lucas in the 53rd minute of play. Alfredo Couto showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Tomas Jonasson in the 57th minute of the match. When Kurt Björkman came up free with the goalie in the 59th minute, the Team Rocco fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Kurt Björkman couldn't finish the play. In the 61st minute, Allan Almqvist hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. The supporters of Team Rocco booed when Rapinantes F.C. was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 67 match minutes in a wonderful position. Michel Paraíba didn't get a good kick on the ball. 70 minutes into the match, Michael Böcklund notched a goal, 1-3, to the right of Rapinantes F.C.'s Alfredo Couto. Alfredo Couto was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. After some careless play in the Rapinantes F.C. defense, Kurt Björkman kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Alfredo Couto. The Rapinantes F.C. fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Alfredo Couto should have stopped the shot. When the match had gone on for 89 minutes, Kurt Björkman put it in 2-5 from a short distance just to the right of Alfredo Couto. After 93 played minutes Lars-Erik Björk rounded Rapinantes F.C.'s defense and shot a beautiful shot into goal via left pole - 2-6. Alfredo Couto showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Lars-Erik Björk in the 96th minute of the match. Tomas Jonasson scored 2-7 in the 97th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Alfredo Couto, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot.