U21 World League

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Spectators: 7492 (Terracing: 5620, Seating: 1723, VIP seats: 149) Stone City's Serafin Calixto started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. Serafin Calixto could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 6th minute of the match, but Nicolas Vilalobos made a huge save. 7 minutes into the match, Loures's goal looked a bit too open when Fernan Galo came free, but Nicolas Vilalobos reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. A collision led to Loures getting a freekick after 10 minutes play. Lucílio Soeiro hit a great ball. 11 minutes into the match, Loures's goalkeeper Nicolas Vilalobos had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Jeronimo Teofilio. Arsenio Aballe showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Artur Azevedo, who was totally free with the ball in the 13th minute. Loures's Nicolas Vilalobos proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 17th minute of the match, managed to save Loures from getting a goal against them. 19 minutes into the match, Loures's goalkeeper Nicolas Vilalobos had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Fernan Galo. Nicolas Vilalobos showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Serafin Calixto, who was totally free with the ball in the 20th minute. 21 minutes into the match, Loures's goal looked a bit too open when Fernan Galo came free, but Nicolas Vilalobos reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Nicolas Vilalobos showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Sergio Lucian in the 23rd minute of the match. After having played for 24 minutes, Sergio Lucian managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Stone City's supporters crossed their fingers, but Sergio Lucian was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. 26 minutes into the match, Loures's goal looked a bit too open when Fernan Galo came free, but Nicolas Vilalobos reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Isidro Diegues made in the 28th minute of the game a fairly good throw-in which was taken care of by Norberto Barbosa. In the 32nd minute Sergio Lucian shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Nicolas Vilalobos saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Nicolas Vilalobos showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Sergio Lucian in the 36th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Sergio Lucian in the 45th minute of play forced Loures's goalkeeper Nicolas Vilalobos to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. When Norberto Barbosa came up free with the goalie in the 46th minute, the Loures 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 Norberto Barbosa couldn't finish the play. After the first half the score was level. The break gave the players a chance to catch their breath, whilst the managers went over the tactics with them again.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Artur Azevedo stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. Norberto Barbosa sent away a hard shot on goal in the 58th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. After a rather tough play, Stone City's Ramiro Duarte got a free kick in the 65th minute. The crowd rose to their feet as Loures's Artur Azevedo slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Arsenio Aballe. That made the score 0-1 after 69 minutes of play. Norberto Caneira charged in rather forcefully in the 76th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Norberto Caneira the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. If Serafin Calixto had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 80th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. Nicolas Vilalobos showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Serafin Calixto in the 82nd minute of the match. In the 85th minute, Artur Azevedo made a precise shot to the right of Arsenio Aballe. Stone City's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 0-2.