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Unlike the latest releases, official and otherwise, the San Marino national team is paying for a start at a too low and staid pace. An excess of sufficiency, perhaps a hidden intention to preserve energy given the second match in twenty-four hours, which the Titans serve in the presence of a Germany that bites the game from the opening whistle. So Loosveld’s men showed up with Oliveira and Aghnima’s next post, before taking the lead on the development of a corner beaten at the far post in favor of Meyer. Protti must put his face – in every sense – on the enormous Wittig, a Teutonic captain at two meters high, while Schulz misses a goal already scored, all alone at the far post. Previously, a couple of misunderstandings involving Moretti, Pasqualini and Protti have made us think about the worst. Osimani expects a more constant pressure and an early exit from the blocks, so as not to get caught in the midst of the dynamic German ball turn. As the minutes pass, San Marino assimilates the technical dictates of the coach and records the distances in the field, despite Schulz nearly doubling on Oliveira’s pocket. Like Meyer and Wittig shortly after, he must bow to Protti’s reflection. San Marino replies with a cross shot by Pasqualini from the side that calls into question Wiegels. The same San Marino universal had previously freed himself from shooting with a tunnel. San Marino also shows up with Busignani, who frees the destroyed on a side foul scheme by finding the gloves of the home keeper. At the moment when the Titans seemed to have returned to the game, Sözer’s pearl: pretending to circumvent Felici and left-handed beating, from a central position, on which not even Protti can do anything. Almost immediate time-out the San Marino, with Osimani groped to aim at a first half of great difficulty and, above all, confused. The Germans, however, are close to the trio almost immediately after the siren, with Protti and Busignani saving on two consecutive occasions on the goal line. It is De Angelis who tries to play the charge, breaking through on the right and overwhelming Meyer as well, before hitting in the fall: easy save by Wiegels. The Titans are now inside the match and a free kick is needed in attack with Busignani, served in the last portion of the field by an advance of Felici’s head. On the overturning, the same universal commits the foul that costs the warning and a scare on the German scheme: Sözer shoots out. Open applause for Protti at 18 ‘: the San Marino goalkeeper is unlucky in the rebound that rewards Matic in the one-on-one, only to recover the ball by placing it on the post. Felici then completes the rescue. Nice combination in the opposite half, where Toccaceli comes to a conclusion after an action started by Moretti and finished by De Angelis: watch out for Wiegels, who has to reach the corner. Protti is solicited until the end, covering with his body Wittig’s under-measure attempt and the one on the developments of a corner by Meyer. The same number ten, however, has another opportunity to certify the 3-0 at half time expired.

In the second half San Marino enters with greater competitive spirit, but it is Germany that has the first ball to score with Matic. Freed from an opening, they are perfect for the chest and the left platter, but Protti has the right reflex to block his way to the door. The Titans show up on the Belloni-Mattioli axis, with the latter taking home a corner, and with the blue-white captain himself exploding a big right from the side, ignoring the forced pass for Busignani who complains in the center of the area. . From there Protti is attentive to the closure on Meyer, who increases the statistics of the shots with a right-footed shot from a tight angle – a solution that the Germans have tried several times. San Marino is completely different in the second half, with Busignani trying in the 37th minute on a free kick won by De Angelis: good Wiegels in the circumstance. The extreme Teutonic is also called into question by Toccaceli, for an intervention this time without worries. Shortly after, Protti had to reach out to Matic, on the sidelines of a ball lost by Moretti. It is the prelude to 4-0, a textbook goal of the discipline: Matic awaits the overlap of Sözer who, served, catches an assist that filters between Busignani’s legs to become the most comfortable of the balls for Aghnima. The Germans play on velvet, finding another goal with Oliveira – who makes the most of Wittig’s consummate pivot work. Loosveld’s men do not let go and touch other scoring in due circumstances, on the cues of an irrepressible Oliveira. The German coach wants to press deeply to capitalize on the inertia clearly in favor. Busignani lightens with a shot of pure power that Wiegels rejects short, due to Pasqualini’s exhaust in favor of Belloni – walled. In the final Hadziavdic wasted his personal joy, except to curse fate on Wittig’s suggestion: his hit the right in sequence Pasqualini, Belloni and crossing the poles, before finishing his run in the arms of a Protti already on the ground. There is also work for Wiegels before the siren: the German goalkeeper has to say no to Belloni with his feet, while on the opposite side Protti’s split and the subsequent smanacciata are pearls, to deny Hadziavdic the net. Before the rest, Ak also has to bow to the reflexes of the San Marino goalkeeper. Thus ends 5-0 in favor of Germany: the national team of San Marino had not conceded many goals in a single official match for over four years. A piece of news in the news, if compared to the outstanding quality of German futsal – where professionalism has come shortly, but seems to be able to generate luxuriant fruit, if grown on the boundless potential basin. For the Titans, the goal remains the stated one: to offer the best possible performance at each outing. Today the first time did not go in that sense, on Saturday afternoon with Gibraltar (13:00) the guys from Osimani went. The match will be presented live on the official YouTube channel of the Gibraltar Football Association.

Qualification for the 2024 Futsal World Cup | San Marino-Germany 0-5
SAN MARINO
Protti, Mattioli, Busignani, Belloni, Felici
Available: Cecchetti, Cavalli, Zafferani, De Angelis, Pasqualini, Franciosi, Moretti, Toccaceli, Cecchini
Coach: Roberto Osimani
GERMANY
Wiegels, Wittig, Oliveira, Meyer, Schulz
Available: Pless, Ak, Matic, Claus, Sözer, Saglam, Hadziavdic, Aghnima, Gecim
Coach: Marcel Loosveld
Referee 1: Manuel Wolf (AUT)
Referee 2: Lars Van Leeuwen (NED)
Referee 3: Ugur Cakmak (TUR)
Timekeeper: Omar Amarkhel (GER)
Scorers: 5’04 “, 19’31” Meyer, 12’59 “Sözer, 28’52” Aghnima, 30’41 “Oliveira
Booked: Busignani

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