U21 World League

Vladikavkaz
Spectators: 7713 (Terracing: 5786, Seating: 1774, VIP seats: 153) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Victor Steckens started the match with the kick off. After 2 minutes, Victor Steckens mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Fox Hunting Squad and the Arsenal F.C. players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 2nd match minute, Fox Hunting Squad was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Victor Steckens to maneuver through the defense. After 7 minutes, Valeriy Gaidushenko mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Arsenal F.C. and the Fox Hunting Squad players grew even worse after the yellow card. The referee was alert and spotted a serious foul by Kasper De Cat during the 9th minute. The player immediately received a yellow card. After a rather tough play, Fox Hunting Squad's Kasper De Cat got a free kick in the 10th minute. Fox Hunting Squad's Robbin Panhuyse proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 11th minute of the match, managed to save Fox Hunting Squad from getting a goal against them. Yakov Romanov in the 12thth minute had a little luck and got a chance for a shot in front of the goal. Without hesitation aimed to the right of Robbin Panhuyse, who managed to lunge to the right direction and made a save. In the 13th match minute, Fox Hunting Squad was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Eddy Volders to maneuver through the defense. In the 21st match minute, Fox Hunting Squad was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Victor Steckens to maneuver through the defense. Fox Hunting Squad's Robbin Panhuyse proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 24th minute of the match, managed to save Fox Hunting Squad from getting a goal against them. Yakov Romanov received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Robbin Panhuyse came out and tried to block the shot, but Yakov Romanov slotted it home off the left post making it 2-0 in the 34th minute. If Yakov Romanov had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 44th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. When the referee blew for the end of the half the home team players were clearly happier, as they went in to the break leading 3-0.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Yakov Romanov to strike the kick off in the second half. When the match had gone on for 54 minutes, Yakov Romanov put it in 4-0 from a short distance just to the right of Robbin Panhuyse. Kasper De Cat kicked well hit freekick during the 58th minute of the match. In the 64th minute of the match, Kasper De Cat got a very nice opportunity to score, but Ivan Belozerov was well-placed and pushed the ball away from the goal at the left post. Robbin Panhuyse made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Yakov Romanov in the 65th minute of play. Robbin Panhuyse showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Yakov Romanov, who was totally free with the ball in the 66th minute. After a rather tough play, Arsenal F.C.'s Mikhail Onopko got a free kick in the 68th minute. After 70 minutes of play, Arsenal F.C.'s Tommi Penttilä made it 5-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Robbin Panhuyse was left in no man's land by his defense there! Victor Steckens kicked well hit freekick during the 76th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Valeriy Gaidushenko in the 79th minute of play forced Fox Hunting Squad's goalkeeper Robbin Panhuyse to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After a rather tough play, Arsenal F.C.'s Artem Melnikov got a free kick in the 80th minute. When Artem Melnikov came up free with the goalie in the 89th minute, the Arsenal F.C. 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 Artem Melnikov couldn't finish the play. After having played for 90 minutes, Tommi Penttilä managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Arsenal F.C.'s supporters crossed their fingers, but Tommi Penttilä was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. In the 93rd minute Yakov Romanov shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Robbin Panhuyse saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. After a rather tough play, Fox Hunting Squad's Eddy Volders got a free kick in the 94th minute. In the 95th minute, Valeriy Gaidushenko hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field.