U23 League

El Candelario
Spectators: 145 (Terracing: 110, Seating: 33, VIP seats: 2) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Guido Koldobika started the match with the kick off. Anastasio Nuno received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 7th minute. Fernan Ibon tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Fernan Ibon came out of the goal in the 9th minute to try and stop a shot by C.A.Esparta's Ceferino Miro. But to his dismay, Ceferino Miro quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 0-1. In the 12th minute the ball was on its way in behind Candelaria FC's goalkeeper Fernan Ibon, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. Ceferino Miro sent away a hard shot on goal in the 15th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. In the 16th minute, Carolo Solustiano ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Fernan Ibon was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-2. Fernan Ibon didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Adolfo Silbestre went, in the 23rd minute, to the upper right corner, 0-3 was the resulting score. Fernan Ibon stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Adolfo Silbestre's shot from short distance in the 28th minute. If Ceferino Miro had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 29th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. After 31 minutes, Guido Koldobika mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Candelaria FC and the C.A.Esparta players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 31st minute, Guido Koldobika hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Candelaria FC's Fernan Ibon played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Carolo Solustiano in the 42nd minute of play. After the first half C.A.Esparta were leading 0-3. They had played with great self confidence throughout the first half and fully deserved their lead.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Adolfo Silbestre to make the kick off. After 55 minutes of play, C.A.Esparta's Ceferino Miro made it 0-4 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Fernan Ibon was left in no man's land by his defense there! 68 minutes into the match, Guido Koldobika had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Gilberto Nofre. C.A.Esparta's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Guido Koldobika was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 1-4. In the 80th minute, Eusebio Perico hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Fernan Ibon was a little too slow when Ceferino Miro got a fine hit on the ball which went right into the goal in the 81st minute. The score was now 1-5. Fernan Ibon made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Adolfo Silbestre in the 84th minute of play. Adolfo Silbestre fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 86th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Fernan Ibon having to interfere. In the 92nd minute Adolfo Silbestre shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Fernan Ibon saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Candelaria FC's Fernan Ibon played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Adolfo Silbestre in the 94th minute of play.