U23 World League

Rebels Stadium
Spectators: 7724 (Terracing: 5824, Seating: 1750, VIP seats: 150) The field was rather wet after several days of rain when Lautaro Acosta took the kick off in the first half of the match. Agustin Marchesan was in the perfect position, and the defense had done a good job marking him, but Roland Cerocki showcased his skills and made a perfect shot to score 1-0 in the 4 minute of play. Nestor Casado's late challenge caught a LFS Sapphire Club's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Nestor Casado helped the player get up and apologised. A collision led to LEBRON getting a freekick after 8 minutes play. Nestor Casado hit a great ball. The supporters of LEBRON booed when LFS Sapphire Club was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 10 match minutes in a wonderful position. Roland Cerocki didn't get a good kick on the ball. In the 12thth minute of the game Zbigniew Hatman who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but LEBRON's Agustin Marchesan was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. In the 13th minute LFS Sapphire Club were awarded a corner. Stanislaw Piwowarski went to the cornerflag to take it. An unexpectedly hard shot by Lautaro Acosta in the 16th minute of play forced LFS Sapphire Club's goalkeeper Baltasar Aznaro to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The audience was convinced that Lautaro Acosta's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Baltasar Aznaro was relentless in the 16th minute of the game. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Lautaro Acosta in the 17th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Baltasar Aznaro saved LFS Sapphire Club from getting behind. If Fernando Gómez had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 18th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. Baltasar Aznaro made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Ariel Lopez in the 21st minute of play. Baltasar Aznaro took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Lautaro Acosta, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. 26 minutes into the match, Ariel Lopez had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Baltasar Aznaro. LFS Sapphire Club's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Ariel Lopez was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 1-1. Baltasar Aznaro showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Lautaro Acosta in the 31st minute of the match. After some careless play in the LEBRON defense, Zbigniew Hatman kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Agustin Marchesan. The LEBRON fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Agustin Marchesan should have stopped the shot. An unexpectedly hard shot by Matías Birge in the 38th minute of play forced LFS Sapphire Club's goalkeeper Baltasar Aznaro to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Zbigniew Hatman's late challenge caught a LEBRON's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Zbigniew Hatman helped the player get up and apologised. The supporters of LEBRON booed when LFS Sapphire Club was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 38 match minutes in a wonderful position. Zbigniew Hatman didn't get a good kick on the ball. Baltasar Aznaro took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Lautaro Acosta, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Isidro Carrasqueira kicked well hit freekick during the 42nd minute of the match. Fernando Gómez sent away a hard shot on goal in the 43rd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Af the end of the first half the score was 2-1. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Zbigniew Hatman to make the kick off. Agustin Marchesan made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Roland Cerocki in the 52nd minute of play. 53 minutes into the match, LEBRON's goal looked a bit too open when Roland Cerocki came free, but Agustin Marchesan reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. After 59 played minutes LEBRON got a freekick which was hit by Nestor Casado. An unexpectedly hard shot by Witalis Tamulewicz in the 61st minute of play forced LEBRON's goalkeeper Agustin Marchesan to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Zbigniew Hatman kicked well hit freekick during the 64th minute of the match. In the 65th minute of the match Lautaro Acosta sent off a long shot with destination to the right of the goalkeeper, but Baltasar Aznaro skillfully saved the ball. The supporters of LFS Sapphire Club booed when LEBRON was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 67 match minutes in a wonderful position. Matías Birge didn't get a good kick on the ball. 69 minutes into the match, LFS Sapphire Club's goal looked a bit too open when Ariel Lopez came free, but Baltasar Aznaro reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Baltasar Aznaro made an important save on a dangerous shot by Lautaro Acosta in the 70th minute. Baltasar Aznaro made an important save on a dangerous shot by Nestor Casado in the 74th minute. Baltasar Aznaro didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Lautaro Acosta went, in the 76th minute, to the upper right corner, 2-4 was the resulting score. Ariel Lopez received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 79th minute. Baltasar Aznaro tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 80th minute of the match, Ariel Lopez tried to roll the ball into the goal by the right post, but Baltasar Aznaro saw his intentions and got control of the ball before it passed the line. Agustin Marchesan showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Witalis Tamulewicz, who was totally free with the ball in the 81st minute. The corner led to LEBRON's Ulises Ubarna getting away a dangerous shot that went just outside the goal. LFS Sapphire Club's Abílio Carreira was substituted for Zbigniew Hatman. Baltasar Aznaro made an important save on a dangerous shot by Lautaro Acosta in the 90th minute. In the 91st minute, LEBRON's Ariel Lopez ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind Baltasar Aznaro. Baltasar Aznaro yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 2-5. Nacho Fernandez could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 94th minute of the match, but Baltasar Aznaro made a huge save.