U23 World League

Magic Stadium
Spectators: 7478 (Terracing: 5610, Seating: 1719, VIP seats: 149) Doncho Tzvetkov scored 0-1 in the 4th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Will Lievens, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Blagoy Dabizhev took the ball and in the 8 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Will Lievens. Will Lievens dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 0-2. After 12 minutes, Danny Van den Plas mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the MagicTeam and the Laziali players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 12th minute, Danny Van den Plas hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 15th minute Naum Mentov shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Will Lievens saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. A collision led to MagicTeam getting a freekick after 18 minutes play. Wes De Vadder hit a great ball. After 18 minutes of play, Laziali's Vaklin Zhablyanov made it 0-3 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Will Lievens was left in no man's land by his defense there! 22 minutes into the match, MagicTeam's goal looked a bit too open when Doncho Tzvetkov came free, but Will Lievens reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Will Lievens showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Vaklin Zhablyanov in the 32nd minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Hannes Hemeleers in the 33rd minute of play forced Laziali's goalkeeper Nikola Drinov to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Nikola Drinov made a fantastic save in the 37th minute, when Tjorven Imbereghs sent off a good shot on target. After 38 played minutes MagicTeam got a freekick which was hit by Nic Kints. After some careless play in the MagicTeam defense, Vaklin Zhablyanov kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Will Lievens. The MagicTeam fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Will Lievens should have stopped the shot. Will Lievens didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when Laziali's Naum Mentov shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 0-5 in the ordered_time% minute. Will Lievens showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Naum Mentov in the 47th minute of the match. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-5 lead.

Tjorven Imbereghs sent away a hard shot on goal in the 54th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. 69 minutes into the match, Vaklin Zhablyanov notched a goal, 0-6, to the right of MagicTeam's Will Lievens. Will Lievens was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. After having played for 72 minutes, Vaklin Zhablyanov managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Laziali's supporters crossed their fingers, but Vaklin Zhablyanov was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Nikola Drinov stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Tjorven Imbereghs's shot from short distance in the 77th minute. 79 minutes into the match, Blagoy Dabizhev dribbled the ball past the defender and swiftly kicked the ball to the left of Will Lievens, 0-7. Wes De Vadder's late challenge caught a Laziali's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Wes De Vadder helped the player get up and apologised. In the 83rd match minute, MagicTeam was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Wes De Vadder to maneuver through the defense. 95 minutes into the game, Emanuil Neychev was given a yellow card after he appeared to trip an opposing player. Laziali's manager was livid on the sidelines, but the referee was unmoved and gave MagicTeam the free kick. Emanuil Neychev kicked well hit freekick during the 96th minute of the match. When the match was over Laziali could go home with a victory in their luggage, having controlled the game far better than MagicTeam throughout the match.