Samgurali saw off Meshakhte 1:0 in the Round of 16 of the Davit Kipiani Cup on Friday evening. The match stretched into extra time before a decisive moment separated the two sides. It was a hard-fought afternoon that ended with the hosts advancing.
And here's the thing about this one — the goal did not come in normal time. I. Siradze found the back of the net in the 113th minute, well past the ninety. By then both teams had been pushing, searching for an opening that would not appear until the dying stages.
There were no dismissals and no substitutions recorded in the available data. The match stayed on eleven against eleven throughout, which means fatigue and positioning mattered more than tactical reshuffles. To be fair, that is how these knockout ties often play out when neither side wants to make a mistake.
Samgurali come into this tie with mixed recent form. They drew 2:2 with VIT Georgia on 26 July and beat Spieri 1:0 a few days earlier. Meshakhte, meanwhile, picked up a 2:1 win over Gonio last time out but have also known defeat — most recently losing 0:1 to Rustavi on 13 June.
The result puts Samgurali into the quarter-finals. Meshakhte's campaign ends here, though they did enough to keep it competitive until the final whistle.