Challenge

Blue Eagles Stadium
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) An unexpectedly hard shot by Moise Bobeanu in the 3rd minute of play forced Italy's goalkeeper Flavio Vittori to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. GiaSiRo 08's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Gustavo Scarpa in the 7th minute. The corner ended in Gustavo Scarpa almost managing to get the ball behind the net, but Italy's Flavio Vittori did a great save. Sebastian Winszman showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Zaccheo Andolina, who was totally free with the ball in the 10th minute. 14 minutes into the match, GiaSiRo 08's goal looked a bit too open when Zaccheo Andolina came free, but Sebastian Winszman reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. 15 minutes had been played when some careless play by GiaSiRo 08's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Sigfrido Auletta was slow to take the kick. During this time Italy's players had a chance to rest. Sebastian Winszman showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Zaccheo Andolina in the 17th minute of the match. Sebastian Winszman didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Zaccheo Andolina went, in the 17th minute, to the upper right corner, 0-1 was the resulting score. Pelayo Contratas could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 21st minute of the match, but Flavio Vittori made a huge save. 22 minutes had been played when some careless play by Italy's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Gustavo Scarpa was slow to take the kick. During this time GiaSiRo 08's players had a chance to rest. In the 26th minute Zaccheo Andolina shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Sebastian Winszman saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 28 minutes into the game, Eliseo Cutri threw the ball into play from the sideline. GiaSiRo 08's Rudolf Bragovskiy quickly snatched the ball and retained possesion. An unexpectedly hard shot by Zaccheo Andolina in the 30th minute of play forced GiaSiRo 08's goalkeeper Sebastian Winszman to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 36 minutes into the match, Italy's Zaccheo Andolina sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Sebastian Winszman narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Pelayo Contratas in the 37thth minute had a little luck and got a chance for a shot in front of the goal. Without hesitation aimed to the right of Flavio Vittori, who managed to lunge to the right direction and made a save. Pelayo Contratas who was well placed in front of the goal fired away a dangerous shot that in the 37thth minute tested the skills of Flavio Vittori when he managed to save the team from getting behind. The throw-in from Eliseo Cutri in the 40th minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by GiaSiRo 08's Rudolf Bragovskiy. Flavio Vittori made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Moise Bobeanu in the 41st minute of play. In the 43rd minute of the match GiaSiRo 08 got a corner. Italy's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Gustavo Scarpa ran over to the corner to take the kick. After taking down the ball on GiaSiRo 08's corner Gustavo Scarpa fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Flavio Vittori quite easily take care of the ball. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-1.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Zaccheo Andolina to strike the kick off in the second half. Italy's Porziano Marchitelli got a good chance for a goal in the 52nd minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. If Porziano Marchitelli had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 54th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. 56 minutes into the match, GiaSiRo 08's goal looked a bit too open when Zaccheo Andolina came free, but Sebastian Winszman reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Italy's Siricio Liotta quite brazenly broke a throw-in by Gustavo Scarpa, made in the 58th minute of the game. Sebastian Winszman made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Sigfrido Auletta in the 67th minute of play. Moise Bobeanu struck a weak shot in the 69th minute. Flavio Vittori didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for GiaSiRo 08. A collision led to Italy getting a freekick after 72 minutes play. Eliseo Cutri hit a great ball. Moise Bobeanu recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 73rd minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. 78 minutes into the match, GiaSiRo 08's goal looked a bit too open when Zaccheo Andolina came free, but Sebastian Winszman reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Italy made a substitution. Adriano Curto replaced Zaccheo Andolina. Italy's attentive Eliseo Cutri managed to snatch the ball when Elia Scarinci made a throw-in in the 81st minute of the game. In the 83rd minute, Adriano Curto reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Sebastian Winszman. The goal made the score 0-2. Eliseo Cutri made in the 86th minute of the game a throw-in that took a bad bounce and was taken care of by GiaSiRo 08's Marcelo Sá. In the 89th minute, Moise Bobeanu got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. Sebastian Winszman was in the perfect position, and the defense had done a good job marking him, but Adriano Curto showcased his skills and made a perfect shot to score 0-3 in the 92 minute of play. The referee blew the final whistle, and the away crowd roared, having watched Italy eke out a victory against a very well matched opponent.