U23 World League

Queen Arena
Spectators: 8071 (Terracing: 6055, Seating: 1856, VIP seats: 160) Benedykt Pyrzyce started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. Victor Piţurcă succeeded in the game's 8th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 1-0. The corner led to C.A.M.P's Jiang Jun Le getting away a dangerous shot that went just outside the goal. After 21 minutes of play, Emerald's Victor Piţurcă made it 2-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. José Miguel was left in no man's land by his defense there! Bogdan Lobonț took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Şehzade Afgan, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the 27th minute, Şehzade Afgan hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. José Miguel showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Victor Piţurcă in the 28th minute of the match. Mauricio Osmundo kicked well hit freekick during the 31st minute of the match. Emerald's Bogdan Lobonț played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Şehzade Afgan in the 34th minute of play. José Miguel showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Victor Piţurcă in the 36th minute of the match. After 37 minutes C.A.M.P's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Jaime Carioca who took care of the corner kick. It was a well-played corner which Ferdinand Condrea managed to volley towards the net. Unfortunately, he didn't get a great hit on the ball and it went out into the grandstand. Bogdan Lobonț showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Benedykt Pyrzyce in the 39th minute of the match. Victor Piţurcă's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but José Miguel read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 42nd minute of play. In the 43rd minute Emerald were awarded a corner. Jaime Carioca went to the cornerflag to take it. Jaime Carioca made a great header on Emerald's corner, it was just that C.A.M.P's José Miguel managed to reach the ball for a save. 46 minutes into the match, Emerald's goal looked a bit too open when Benedykt Pyrzyce came free, but Bogdan Lobonț reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Ferdinand Condrea hit a great freekick 48 minutes into the match. 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 2-1.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Victor Piţurcă was the one to do the kick off. In the 53rdth minute of the game Victor Piţurcă who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but C.A.M.P's José Miguel was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. José Miguel made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Victor Piţurcă in the 56th minute of play. Mauricio Osmundo made in the 58th minute of the game a throw-in that took a bad bounce and was taken care of by Emerald's Gabriel Vermeşan. José Miguel took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Victor Piţurcă, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. José Miguel stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Victor Piţurcă's shot from short distance in the 63rd minute. In the 65th minute the ball was on its way in behind C.A.M.P's goalkeeper José Miguel, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. After a rather tough play, C.A.M.P's Benicio Maties got a free kick in the 66th minute. C.A.M.P's Ambrosio Piearres was substituted for Jiang Jun Le. After 67 played minutes C.A.M.P got a freekick which was hit by Benicio Maties. In the 81st minute Victor Piţurcă shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but José Miguel saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. After 84 minutes, Benicio Maties mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the C.A.M.P and the Emerald players grew even worse after the yellow card. Gabriel Vermeşan fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 86th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without José Miguel having to interfere. Şehzade Afgan could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 93rd minute of the match, but Bogdan Lobonț made a huge save. 95 minutes into the match, Şehzade Afgan had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Bogdan Lobonț. Emerald's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Şehzade Afgan was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 2-2. Both teams had looked equal from kick-off, and no-one was surprised when the match finally ended in a draw.