U23 World League

Serce Łodzi
Spectators: 7530 (Terracing: 5649, Seating: 1731, VIP seats: 150) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Eugeniusz Turek made the kick off which started today's match. Amedeo Pasquale acted impressively in front of the goal and made a superb save when he, in the 7th minute, took the ball on the long shot from Dominik Karanowski. Grzegorz Skikiewicz showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Federico Piacente, who was totally free with the ball in the 9th minute. The audience was convinced that Ferruccio Della Torre's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Grzegorz Skikiewicz was relentless in the 11th minute of the game. Ferruccio Della Torre fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 20th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Grzegorz Skikiewicz having to interfere. A collision led to Farafulla FC getting a freekick after 28 minutes play. Ferruccio Della Torre hit a great ball. Grzegorz Skikiewicz made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Ferruccio Della Torre in the 37th minute of play. In the 38th minute Alvise Bevilacqua shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Grzegorz Skikiewicz saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Anselmo Cherubini scored 1-2 in the 40th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Grzegorz Skikiewicz, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. 44 minutes into the match, ◄19A10► Widzew Łódź's goal looked a bit too open when Ferruccio Della Torre came free, but Grzegorz Skikiewicz reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Anselmo Cherubini's late challenge caught a ◄19A10► Widzew Łódź's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Anselmo Cherubini helped the player get up and apologised. After 46 played minutes Farafulla FC got a freekick which was hit by Anselmo Cherubini. Disappointed in the 1-2 score, the home team went to the dressing room to adjust tactics for the second half.

The wind increased when Francesco Talamo made the kick off in the second half. Grzegorz Skikiewicz showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Ferruccio Della Torre, who was totally free with the ball in the 52nd minute. Francesco Talamo hit a great freekick 53 minutes into the match. After a rather tough play, ◄19A10► Widzew Łódź's Eugeniusz Turek got a free kick in the 55th minute. When Ferruccio Della Torre came up free with the goalie in the 57th minute, the Farafulla FC 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 Ferruccio Della Torre couldn't finish the play. 60 minutes into the match, ◄19A10► Widzew Łódź's goal looked a bit too open when Alessandro Mazzetti came free, but Grzegorz Skikiewicz reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. After some careless play in the ◄19A10► Widzew Łódź defense, Anselmo Cherubini kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Grzegorz Skikiewicz. The ◄19A10► Widzew Łódź fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Grzegorz Skikiewicz should have stopped the shot. An unexpectedly hard shot by Anselmo Cherubini in the 76th minute of play forced ◄19A10► Widzew Łódź's goalkeeper Grzegorz Skikiewicz to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Norbert Gregorczyk received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 82nd minute. Amedeo Pasquale tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Francesco Talamo could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 84th minute of the match, but Grzegorz Skikiewicz made a huge save. 86 minutes into the match, ◄19A10► Widzew Łódź's goal looked a bit too open when Alessandro Mazzetti came free, but Grzegorz Skikiewicz reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Grzegorz Skikiewicz made a fantastic save in the 88th minute, when Francesco Talamo sent off a good shot on target. Anselmo Cherubini succeeded in the game's 90th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 1-6. In the 97th minute, Eugeniusz Turek got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. Farafulla FC's fans were overjoyed with their teams well-earned victory and stayed in the stadium long after the final whistle to celebrate the win.