U23 World League

La Docta
Spectators: 7677 (Terracing: 5758, Seating: 1766, VIP seats: 153) Gaston Edur could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 8th minute of the match, but Leonardo Gartzea made a huge save. After a rather tough play, Juniors FC's Ignacio Millano got a free kick in the 10th minute. 16 minutes into the match, Abel Polo notched a goal, 1-0, to the right of Juniors FC's Leonardo Gartzea. Leonardo Gartzea was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. In the 19th match minute, Grütly was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Bernardino Odon to maneuver through the defense. Leonardo Gartzea showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Bernardino Odon in the 31st minute of the match. After some fancy dribbling in the 33rd minute, Gavino Lia managed to get in a good position for a shot. Grütly's supporters rose to their feet, but Gavino Lia was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Leonardo Gartzea breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. The crowd rose to their feet as Grütly's Bernardino Odon slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Leonardo Gartzea. That made the score 3-0 after 35 minutes of play. After a rather tough play, Juniors FC's Cristo Urtungo got a free kick in the 38th minute. Elpidio Bakar was astounded when the referee showed him the red card after a seemingly innocent challenge, 42 minutes into the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Gaston Edur in the 44th minute of play forced Juniors FC's goalkeeper Leonardo Gartzea to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Af the end of the first half the score was 3-0. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Tomás Iliana made a kick off. Leonardo Gartzea didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Bernardino Odon went, in the 52nd minute, to the upper right corner, 4-0 was the resulting score. An unexpectedly hard shot by Gavino Lia in the 68th minute of play forced Juniors FC's goalkeeper Leonardo Gartzea to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 72 minutes into the match, Bernardino Odon had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Leonardo Gartzea. Juniors FC's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Bernardino Odon was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 5-0. In the 74th minute, Abel Polo left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Grütly fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 6-0. Bernardino Odon fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 78th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Leonardo Gartzea having to interfere. After a rather tough play, Grütly's Saturnino Dalmai got a free kick in the 81st minute. Bernardino Odon recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 83rd minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. Leonardo Gartzea took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Abel Polo, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Adan Tabor scored 7-0 in the 91st match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Leonardo Gartzea, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. The throw-in from Leo Perna in the 94th minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by Grütly's Evaristo Guillem. Grütly's supporters were delighted with their team's performance and swarmed onto the pitch at the end of the match to celebrate the victory with the players.