Challenge

Old Trafford
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Sandro Galishoff started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. Nuutti Jokiranta took the ball and in the 3 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Fabio Auer. Fabio Auer dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 1-0. Austria's Fabio Auer played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Lu Cheng Di in the 5th minute of play. Manchester United's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Kalman Salminen in the 7th minute. The corner led Manchester United's Kalman Salminen to fire away a dangerous shot which Fabio Auer despite some difficulties managed to get hold on the ball. Fabio Auer came out of the goal in the 8th minute to try and stop a shot by Manchester United's Kalman Salminen. But to his dismay, Kalman Salminen quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 2-0. In the 11th match minute, Austria was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Fabio Schneider to maneuver through the defense. When Nuutti Jokiranta came up free with the goalie in the 12th minute, the Manchester United fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Nuutti Jokiranta couldn't finish the play. 14 minutes into the match, Manchester United's goal looked a bit too open when Sandro Galishoff came free, but Joonas Tirkkonen reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Sandro Galishoff took the ball and in the 14 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Joonas Tirkkonen. Joonas Tirkkonen dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 2-1. 18 minutes into the match, Nuutti Jokiranta dribbled the ball past the defender and swiftly kicked the ball to the left of Fabio Auer, 3-1. When Marvin Harrer came up free with the goalie in the 23rd minute, the Austria fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Marvin Harrer couldn't finish the play. In the 26th minute of the match Manchester United got a corner. Austria's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Kalman Salminen ran over to the corner to take the kick. Fabio Auer made an important save on a dangerous shot by Kalman Salminen in the 32nd minute. Fabio Auer made a fantastic save in the 34th minute, when Kalman Salminen sent off a good shot on target. With a little luck, Austria's Fabio Auer got control of the ball when Kalman Salminen tried to sneak it across the goal line. In the 38th minute Nuutti Jokiranta shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Fabio Auer saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 42nd minute, Nuutti Jokiranta made a precise shot to the right of Fabio Auer. Austria's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 5-1. The home fans were very happy to see their team leading 5-1 at half-time.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Kalman Salminen was the one to do the kick off. Fabio Auer took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Lu Cheng Di, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Kalman Salminen scored 6-1 in the 54th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Fabio Auer, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Fabio Auer showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Lu Cheng Di in the 58th minute of the match. Christian Wallner kicked well hit freekick during the 59th minute of the match. Perun Pora did an outstanding performance 63 minutes into the match, when he by himself got past the opposing team's defense and with a quick scored 7-1 to the right of an irritated Fabio Auer in the goal. Kalman Salminen sent away a hard shot on goal in the 68th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Manchester United's Osmo Kuokkanen was substituted for Nikodemus Kukkonen. Leonhard Maier hit a great freekick 73 minutes into the match. Harriet Santoyo hit a great freekick 75 minutes into the match. Harriet Santoyo hit a great freekick 76 minutes into the match. After 80 minutes of play, Manchester United's Nuutti Jokiranta made it 8-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Fabio Auer was left in no man's land by his defense there! Fabio Auer made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Lu Cheng Di in the 83rd minute of play. Austria's Fabio Auer played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Aatos Koivisto in the 86th minute of play. 87 minutes had been played when some careless play by Austria's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Jaakoppi Vilmunen was slow to take the kick. During this time Manchester United's players had a chance to rest. A nice corner shot did that Jaakoppi Vilmunen got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Fabio Auer quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. After 88 played minutes Austria got a freekick which was hit by Emil Seidler. After some careless play in the Austria defense, Lu Cheng Di kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Fabio Auer. The Austria fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Fabio Auer should have stopped the shot. When the referee ended the match the Manchester United players were able to celebrate. They had won a fair victory and recieved the ovations of their fans.