U23 World League

Mekân 61
Spectators: 8053 (Terracing: 6041, Seating: 1852, VIP seats: 160) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Selman Özçelik made the kick off which started today's match. 61 PIMMS FC's Fernado Muslera played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Victor Piţurcă in the 6th minute of play. A nice corner shot did that Jaime Carioca got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Fernado Muslera quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. Fernado Muslera showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Victor Piţurcă in the 13th minute of the match. Fernado Muslera didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Gabriel Vermeşan went, in the 14th minute, to the upper right corner, 0-1 was the resulting score. Cao Ting Ran made in the 19th minute of the game a fairly good throw-in which was taken care of by Hao Yan Ying. Bogdan Lobonț made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Hao Yan Ying in the 20th minute of play. In the 22nd match minute, Emerald was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by 梅国崇 to maneuver through the defense. After 24 minutes of play, Emerald's Victor Piţurcă made it 0-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Fernado Muslera was left in no man's land by his defense there! Thanks to some nice foot action and superb ball handling Victor Piţurcă in the 28th minute a chance for a shot on goal. With an extended leg and a bit of luck Fernado Muslera prevented the ball from getting in the gole. 31 minutes into the match, Hao Yan Ying notched a goal, 1-2, to the right of Emerald's Bogdan Lobonț. Bogdan Lobonț was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Victor Piţurcă in the 34th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Fernado Muslera saved 61 PIMMS FC from getting behind. Victor Piţurcă sent away a hard shot on goal in the 36th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. An unexpectedly hard shot by Victor Piţurcă in the 36th minute of play forced 61 PIMMS FC's goalkeeper Fernado Muslera to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Fernado Muslera showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Victor Piţurcă in the 37th minute of the match. Cao Ting Ran charged in rather forcefully in the 41st minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Cao Ting Ran the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. An unexpectedly hard shot by Gabriel Vermeşan in the 42nd minute of play forced 61 PIMMS FC's goalkeeper Fernado Muslera to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Disappointed in the 1-2 score, the home team went to the dressing room to adjust tactics for the second half.

In the 54th minute of the match Emerald got a corner. 61 PIMMS FC's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Jaime Carioca ran over to the corner to take the kick. After taking down the ball on Emerald's corner Jaime Carioca fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Fernado Muslera quite easily take care of the ball. Işıkalp Berksu charged in rather forcefully in the 57th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Işıkalp Berksu the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. After a rather tough play, 61 PIMMS FC's Işıkalp Berksu got a free kick in the 57th minute. Fernado Muslera was in exellent shape and made a fantastic save when he, in the 58th minute of the match, managed to get hold of the ball after a long shot from 梅国崇. A collision led to 61 PIMMS FC getting a freekick after 61 minutes play. Alessandro Costacurta hit a great ball. Jaime Carioca missed a clear chance of a goal when in the 62 minute of the game fired away a shot, but unfortunally the ball went out to the Fernado Muslera right hand side. 66 minutes into the game, Alessandro Costacurta was given a yellow card after he appeared to trip an opposing player. 61 PIMMS FC's manager was livid on the sidelines, but the referee was unmoved and gave Emerald the free kick. 65 minutes into the game, one of 61 PIMMS FC:s players got tackled near the goal, and the referee blew for a penalty. In the 72nd minute Victor Piţurcă shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Fernado Muslera saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. A sloppy throw-in by Cao Ting Ran in the 76th minute of the game went astray and was snapped up by Emerald's 梅国崇. Işıkalp Berksu kicked well hit freekick during the 80th minute of the match. 61 PIMMS FC's Fernado Muslera played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Victor Piţurcă in the 82nd minute of play. Adam Beton hit a great freekick 84 minutes into the match. During the 88th minute of the match Cao Ting Ran completely mistimed his tackle and brought down his opponent. The referee gave Cao Ting Ran a yellow card, his second in the match, which meant he could no longer take part in the game. After 89 played minutes 61 PIMMS FC got a freekick which was hit by Cao Ting Ran. Fernado Muslera made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Gabriel Vermeşan in the 90th minute of play. 91 minutes into the match, 61 PIMMS FC's goal looked a bit too open when Gabriel Vermeşan came free, but Fernado Muslera reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Fernado Muslera made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Victor Piţurcă in the 94th minute of play. Emerald played a much better game than 61 PIMMS FC and deserved their victory. The 61 PIMMS FC players were clearly disappointed as they left the ground.