U23 World League

Estadio Calicas
Spectators: 7495 (Terracing: 5622, Seating: 1724, VIP seats: 149) After 4 minutes, Francisco Lobo mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Loures and the ErbaA KartaLı players grew even worse after the yellow card. A collision led to Loures getting a freekick after 4 minutes play. Francisco Lobo hit a great ball. After a rather tough play, ErbaA KartaLı's Yenal Faydalı got a free kick in the 6th minute. In the 8th minute of the match Norberto Barbosa shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Frank Fiori showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. A collision led to Loures getting a freekick after 9 minutes play. Francisco Lobo hit a great ball. In the 13th minute, Hamdullah Kaplan sent off a long shot on goal, but the shot was nowhere near the goal and Loures's Nicolas Vilalobos didn't even have to move. After some careless play in the Loures defense, Hamdullah Kaplan kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Nicolas Vilalobos. The Loures fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Nicolas Vilalobos should have stopped the shot. Loures's Nicolas Vilalobos played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Tahsin Çalımbay in the 18th minute of play. Nicolas Vilalobos took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Tahsin Çalımbay, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Ilgaz Azimoğlu hit a great freekick 22 minutes into the match. Isidro Diegues sent away a hard shot on goal in the 25th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Francisco Lobo was astounded when the referee showed him the red card after a seemingly innocent challenge, 29 minutes into the match. Norberto Caneira kicked well hit freekick during the 36th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Hamdullah Kaplan in the 37th minute of play forced Loures's goalkeeper Nicolas Vilalobos to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After some fancy dribbling in the 40th minute, Isidro Diegues managed to get in a good position for a shot. Loures's supporters rose to their feet, but Isidro Diegues was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Frank Fiori breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. After the first half ErbaA KartaLı were leading 0-2. They had played with great self confidence throughout the first half and fully deserved their lead.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Isidro Diegues was the one to do the kick off. When the match had gone on for 55 minutes, Hamdullah Kaplan took a quick shot and it went in 0-3 without a chance for Nicolas Vilalobos to make any attempt to save it. The audience was convinced that Hamdullah Kaplan's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Nicolas Vilalobos was relentless in the 58th minute of the game. A collision led to ErbaA KartaLı getting a freekick after 60 minutes play. Ilgaz Azimoğlu hit a great ball. With a little luck, Loures's Nicolas Vilalobos got control of the ball when Tahsin Çalımbay tried to sneak it across the goal line. After a defensive mix-up in Loures's zone, Hamdullah Kaplan stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Nicolas Vilalobos came out of the goal and Hamdullah Kaplan tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. In the 75th minute, Hamdullah Kaplan reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Nicolas Vilalobos. The goal made the score 0-4. Nicolas Vilalobos made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Tahsin Çalımbay in the 78th minute of play. When the match had gone on for 83 minutes, Hamdullah Kaplan took a quick shot and it went in 0-5 without a chance for Nicolas Vilalobos to make any attempt to save it. In the 87th minute, Tahsin Çalımbay left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The ErbaA KartaLı fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-6. Nicolas Vilalobos didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Hamdullah Kaplan went, in the 94th minute, to the upper right corner, 0-7 was the resulting score. ErbaA KartaLı were delighted with the way they had won the match. They had held their defensive line well and made the most of their chances, to claim a victory over Loures's much stronger midfield.