U23 World League

Air Albania
Spectators: 7487 (Terracing: 5616, Seating: 1722, VIP seats: 149) Cvetan Rugova started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. In the 4th minute, Leo Horado hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. The referee was alert and spotted a serious foul by Leontie Hristijanski during the 5th minute. The player immediately received a yellow card. After a rather tough play, ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Leontie Hristijanski got a free kick in the 5th minute. Gazmir Bardulla hit a great freekick 8 minutes into the match. Ceferino Mel scored 0-1 in the 12th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Andrej Maksimovski, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Martin Honrio received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 14th minute. Andrej Maksimovski tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Andrej Maksimovski showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from German Guillelmus, who was totally free with the ball in the 18th minute. In the 22nd minute Martin Honrio shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Andrej Maksimovski saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. After a rather tough play, C.del.U FC's Eleuterio Navarro got a free kick in the 26th minute. 30 minutes into the match, Timoteo Marin notched a goal, 0-2, to the right of ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Andrej Maksimovski. Andrej Maksimovski was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Andrej Maksimovski made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Martin Honrio in the 35th minute of play. In the 36th minute, Ceferino Mel ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Andrej Maksimovski was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-3. In the 42nd minute, ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Ariton Krstevski dribbled the ball into the box and hit a shot with the outside of his foot, sending the keeper the wrong way. 1-3. Cvetan Rugova hit a great freekick 46 minutes into the match. Andrej Maksimovski took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Martin Honrio, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side.

The wind increased when Jeremias Natal made the kick off in the second half. Martin Honrio received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Andrej Maksimovski came out and tried to block the shot, but Martin Honrio slotted it home off the left post making it 1-4 in the 52nd minute. Eleuterio Daunte showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Cacko Dubrovski in the 58th minute of the match. 58 minutes into the game, Cacko Dubrovski cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 2-4. Eleuterio Daunte was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. Andrej Maksimovski was in the perfect position, and the defense had done a good job marking him, but Martin Honrio showcased his skills and made a perfect shot to score 2-5 in the 60 minute of play. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Andrej Maksimovski played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Ceferino Mel in the 65th minute of play. When Justino Christobal fell near the penalty area in the 69th minute he thought he would be awarded a free kick. The referee ignored C.del.U FC's protests and gave Justino Christobal a yellow card for diving instead. Justino Christobal hit a great freekick 69 minutes into the match. Eleuterio Daunte showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Cacko Dubrovski in the 77th minute of the match. Martin Honrio hit a great freekick 80 minutes into the match. 81 minutes into the match, C.del.U FC's goal looked a bit too open when Cvetan Rugova came free, but Eleuterio Daunte reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. After 90 minutes C.del.U FC's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Ranko Nedev who took care of the corner kick. ✩ Pep Team ✩'s Ranko Nedev was first on the ball when the corner was shot and he dangerously headed the ball towards goal, but Eleuterio Daunte in the goal jumped up to prevent it from getting in. Gazmir Bardulla's late challenge caught a C.del.U FC's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Gazmir Bardulla helped the player get up and apologised. Gazmir Bardulla kicked well hit freekick during the 93rd minute of the match. When the final whistle sounded C.del.U FC left the ground with the victory after a much better performance than ✩ Pep Team ✩.