Challenge

COLOSSEUM
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Andre Agassi got the match started through his kick off. After a rather tough play, MAFFIAN's Mats Wilander got a free kick in the 2nd minute. MAFFIAN's Aron Dahlbom played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Kyle Cox in the 6th minute of play. Khalid Kennedy was in the perfect position, and the defense had done a good job marking him, but Pete Sampras showcased his skills and made a perfect shot to score 1-0 in the 8 minute of play. In the 11th minute Issac Dawson shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Aron Dahlbom saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. The audience thought a goal was coming when Andre Agassi got free with Khalid Kennedy in the 14th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. 18 minutes had been played when some careless play by MAFFIAN's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Micah Macdonald was slow to take the kick. During this time England's players had a chance to rest. Khalid Kennedy showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Vincent Linberg in the 24th minute of the match. 27 minutes into the match, England's goalkeeper Khalid Kennedy had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Andre Agassi. Alf Säfström's late challenge caught a England's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Alf Säfström helped the player get up and apologised. A collision led to MAFFIAN getting a freekick after 29 minutes play. Alf Säfström hit a great ball. Thanks to some nice foot action and superb ball handling Kyle Cox in the 31st minute a chance for a shot on goal. With an extended leg and a bit of luck Aron Dahlbom prevented the ball from getting in the gole. Kyle Cox spun around in front of the goal 31 minutes in the game, and got away a shot that, to his disappointment, went to the left of MAFFIAN's goal. Aron Dahlbom showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Xavier Gallagher in the 33rd minute of the match. 34 minutes had been played when some careless play by MAFFIAN's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Micah Macdonald was slow to take the kick. During this time England's players had a chance to rest. The corner ended in Micah Macdonald almost managing to get the ball behind the net, but MAFFIAN's Aron Dahlbom did a great save. An unexpectedly hard shot by Pete Sampras in the 36th minute of play forced England's goalkeeper Khalid Kennedy to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After a rather tough play, England's Caelan Hayes got a free kick in the 37th minute. 38 minutes into the match, England's goal looked a bit too open when Vincent Linberg came free, but Khalid Kennedy reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Khalid Kennedy didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Andre Agassi went, in the 39th minute, to the upper right corner, 2-0 was the resulting score. An unexpectedly hard shot by Vincent Linberg in the 42nd minute of play forced England's goalkeeper Khalid Kennedy to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After 45 minutes of play, MAFFIAN's Andre Agassi made it 3-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Khalid Kennedy was left in no man's land by his defense there! The home fans were very happy to see their team leading 3-0 at half-time.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Kyle Cox to strike the kick off in the second half. The supporters of England booed when MAFFIAN was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 50 match minutes in a wonderful position. Stig-Arne Skålberg didn't get a good kick on the ball. When the match had gone on for 54 minutes, Vincent Linberg put it in 4-0 from a short distance just to the right of Khalid Kennedy. Pete Sampras fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 57th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Khalid Kennedy having to interfere. MAFFIAN's Alex Vallin was substituted for Greger Broberg. After a rather tough play, England's Seth Young got a free kick in the 60th minute. 66 minutes into the match, MAFFIAN's goalkeeper Aron Dahlbom had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Micah Macdonald. In the 67th minute Pete Sampras shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Khalid Kennedy saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. A collision led to England getting a freekick after 68 minutes play. Issac Dawson hit a great ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Kyle Cox in the 75th minute of play forced MAFFIAN's goalkeeper Aron Dahlbom to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Kyle Cox received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 87th minute. Aron Dahlbom tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 92nd minute, Kyle Cox 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.