UHERSKE HRADISTE, Czech Republic (Interstat) — Ousman Ceesay scored twice and Slovacko B pulled away from Hlubina for a 5-2 victory Sunday in a global football match. Ceesay was Slovacko B’s top performer, scoring in the 24th and 78th minutes, while Samson Olayiwola, Martin Holek and Martin Uhrovic also found the net. Michael Vladar and David Berek scored for Hlubina. Slovacko B moved to 1-1 in the competition and 3-3-2 overall. Hlubina dropped to 0-3 in the competition and 0-5-3 overall. The result gave Slovacko B its first competition win of the season while Hlubina remained without a competition point.

Slovacko B took the lead when Ceesay struck in the 24th minute. The opening half included a yellow card for Z. Pereski of Slovacko B in the 20th minute and a booking for T. Janjus of Hlubina in the 28th minute. Hlubina answered in the 36th minute through Vladar, who scored before he was substituted in the 73rd minute. Slovacko B regained the advantage in first-half stoppage time when Uhrovic scored in the 45th minute plus one. Slovacko B carried a 2-1 lead into the break. The goal was Uhrovic’s first of the match and came after Hlubina had briefly shifted momentum with Vladar’s finish.

The home team added to its lead in the 53rd minute when Holek scored. Ceesay then completed his brace in the 78th minute, and Olayiwola made the margin 5-1 with a goal in the 84th minute. Hlubina found a late response when Berek scored in the 87th minute after entering the match during an 84th-minute substitution. Berek was booked in the 89th minute, giving Hlubina its second yellow card of the match. Slovacko B’s attack produced five goals from four different scorers, with Ceesay the only player to score twice.

Slovacko B made a halftime change involving L. Novotny. Hlubina made a 61st-minute change involving N. Gancarczyk and removed Vladar in the 73rd minute after his goal. Slovacko B substituted Holek and Uhrovic in the 77th minute, shortly after both had scored. Hlubina made another change in the 84th minute involving J. Obdrzalek, and Slovacko B made an 87th-minute change involving F. Hruska. The late substitutions did not prevent Berek from scoring and then picking up a yellow card in the closing minutes. Hlubina’s bench usage came as it tried to chase the game after falling behind by multiple goals.

Hlubina’s competition record fell to 0-3, while its overall mark moved to 0-5-3. Slovacko B improved to 1-1 in the competition and 3-3-2 across all competitions. Slovacko B had lost its previous competition match at Vsetin, while Hlubina had lost at home to Hodonin in its previous competition outing. Before this match, Slovacko B had also dropped a home result to Zbrojovka B, beaten Karvina B and Vrchovina, drawn with SK Hranice and Zlin B, and lost at Vitkovice. Hlubina entered without a win in its previous seven matches, having lost to Hodonin, Vrchovina, Nove Mesto na Morave and Unicov while drawing with SK Polanka, Havirov and Uhersky Brod. Those results left both teams seeking a turnaround, and Slovacko B found one behind Ceesay’s finishing and a balanced scoring effort that also included goals from Uhrovic, Holek and Olayiwola. Hlubina, meanwhile, remained winless in the competition despite Vladar’s first-half strike and Berek’s late goal.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Slovacko B 2, Hlubina 1. Interstat’s ELO system gave Slovacko B a 68.5 percent probability to win before the match. The projections were part of the pregame analysis. Those numbers were released before kickoff.