Football. Crazy finish and Anchor up!

After a crazy ending to the first league football match in Kołobrzeg, the newly promoted local pirates beat their neighbours in the table from Głogów, significantly increasing their chances of staying in the league!

First football league: Kotwica Kołobrzeg - Chrobry Głogów 2:1 (1:0); 1:0 Michał Cywiński (43 penalties), 1:1 Mateusz Lewandowski (90+1 penalties), 2:1 Joshua Pérez (90+4).

Anchor: 88. Marek Kozioł - 45. Denys Favorow, 10. Michał Cywiński, 27. Tomasz Wełna, 22. Volodymyr Kostevych - 32. Mykola Musolitin, 6. Kamil Kort, 8. Lucas Ramos, 29. Joshua Pérez, 15. Miłosz Kurowski - 9. Filip Kozłowski (76, 16. Vsevolod Sadovsky).

Yellow cards: Wełna, Pérez - Mandrysz, Tabiś. Referee: Damian Kos (Gdańsk). By decision of the Disciplinary Committee of the Polish Football Association, the Kotwica stadium was partially closed to fans for the match against Chrobry (excluding sectors A1, A2, A3 and VIP), and the reason was the incidents with the use of pyrotechnics during the match against Ruch Chorzów.

The match was even, with both teams having 50% possession, and the players from Głogów having more shots (including on target), while the hosts had twice as many corner kicks. Before half-time, in terms of more dangerous actions, Kurowski had scored twice and Musolitin once, and as for Głogów, a shot by former Pogoń Szczecin player Robert Mandrysz (he was replaced by another export player Mikołaj Lebedyński after less than an hour of play, and the substitution was made by coach Łukasz Becella, who used to scout for Twardowski) and an inaccurate header by Lewandowski. In the 43rd minute, the referee spotted Paweł Antczak's hand in the penalty area and awarded a penalty, which Cywiński converted into a goal.

The second half began with shots from both sides, and the most dangerous one was Cywiński's, but Paweł Lenarcik intervened successfully. In the 63rd minute, Pérez shot dangerously from outside the penalty area, and in response, Mateusz Ozimek's shot was saved by Kozioł, who ten minutes later made a great save after Myroslav Mazur's header, and in the end he dealt with Szymon Lewkot's shot, while Mazur aimed over the crossbar. In the 90th minute, Lebedyński was dragged by his shirt and the referee, after a VAR analysis, awarded a penalty, and a minute later, Lewandowski equalized with a shot from 11 meters. It brought back memories from October, when Kotwica was leading 2:1 in Głogów until the 97th minute, only to lose 2:3... But this time, after the equalizer, the pirates gathered for another charge, and Pérez scored the winning goal from close range.

- That penalty for Głogów in the last minute was like a knife in the back, but it turned out that you can take that knife out and cut your opponent's throat in the last seconds... - one of the Kołobrzeg fans accurately and bluntly summed up.

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In the closing match of the 28th round of the 3rd football league, Flota Świnoujście in Bydgoszcz won against the local Zawisza 3:0 (1:0); 1:0 Dmytro Jefimenko (13), 2:0 Kostiantyn Karaman (60), 3:0 Dmytro Jefimenko (78). (mij)