U18 World League

Olympia
Spectators: 7507 (Terracing: 5631, Seating: 1726, VIP seats: 150) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Roger Kämpe started the match with the kick off. Lars-Erik Wall showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Jesper Håkansson in the 8th minute of the match. Kent Backman hit a great freekick 9 minutes into the match. When the match had gone on for 11 minutes, Agne Isaksson put it in 0-1 from a short distance just to the right of Lars-Erik Wall. After a rather tough play, Norrlands Athen's Oskar Björk got a free kick in the 21st minute. In the 23rd minute, Olof Ryberg hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 27thth minute of the game Agne Isaksson who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Norrlands Athen's Lars-Erik Wall was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. A collision led to Norrlands Athen getting a freekick after 29 minutes play. Oskar Björk hit a great ball. A collision led to Norrlands Athen getting a freekick after 31 minutes play. Kent Backman hit a great ball. Malte Gerdberg took a chance and fired a shot far from the goal in the 32nd minute, but it turned out to be a dangerous situation for Lars-Erik Wall. Norrlands Athen's goalkeeper really had to stretch himself to stop the ball from crossing the goal line. Vincent Molin succeeded to score despite a near miss that spronge from right pole into the goal to 1-1 in the 38th playminute. 42 minutes into the match, Ingvar Waller had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Lars-Erik Wall. Norrlands Athen's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Ingvar Waller was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 1-2.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Agne Isaksson was the one to do the kick off. Malte Gerdberg could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 52nd minute of the match, but Lars-Erik Wall made a huge save. The audience thought a goal was coming when Agne Isaksson got free with Lars-Erik Wall in the 54th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Jesper Håkansson struck a weak shot in the 56th minute. Lars-Erik Wall didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Sunkens Surtröjor. Lars-Erik Wall showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Jesper Håkansson, who was totally free with the ball in the 58th minute. After some careless play in the Norrlands Athen defense, Agne Isaksson kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Lars-Erik Wall. The Norrlands Athen fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Lars-Erik Wall should have stopped the shot. In the 67th minute the ball was on its way in behind Norrlands Athen's goalkeeper Lars-Erik Wall, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. With a little luck, Norrlands Athen's Lars-Erik Wall got control of the ball when Agne Isaksson tried to sneak it across the goal line. In the 75th minute Jesper Håkansson shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Lars-Erik Wall saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Lars-Erik Wall showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Jesper Håkansson in the 76th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Jesper Håkansson in the 79th minute of play forced Norrlands Athen's goalkeeper Lars-Erik Wall to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The audience thought a goal was coming when Agne Isaksson got free with Lars-Erik Wall in the 82nd minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. In the 83rd minute Roger Kämpe shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Helge Bäckström saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Roger Kämpe charged in rather forcefully in the 85th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Roger Kämpe the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. Lars-Erik Wall made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Jesper Håkansson in the 87th minute of play. Rickard Andreasson hit a great freekick 89 minutes into the match. Norrlands Athen's Lars-Erik Wall proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 92nd minute of the match, managed to save Norrlands Athen from getting a goal against them. When the match was over Sunkens Surtröjor could go home with a victory in their luggage, having controlled the game far better than Norrlands Athen throughout the match.