Challenge

Pirsus Arena
Spectators: 43 (Terracing: 33, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Giuliano Spiller kicked off to start the match. 7 minutes had been played when some careless play by Pirsus's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Sandro Galishoff was slow to take the kick. During this time Austria's players had a chance to rest. A well-hit corner resulted in Marvin Harrer heading the ball towards the goal, but to his dismay he misdirected it and missed the goal completely. The crowd rose to their feet as Giuliano Spiller kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Fabio Auer. That made the score 1-0 in the 12 minute of play. Nico Waismann's late challenge caught a Pirsus's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Nico Waismann helped the player get up and apologised. In the 23rd minute, one of Austria:s players had the ball in front of the goal but got pushed and fell. The referee felt it was an obvious case and blew a penalty for Austria. Griffin Cinq-Mars charged in rather forcefully in the 28th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Griffin Cinq-Mars the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. A collision led to Pirsus getting a freekick after 28 minutes play. Griffin Cinq-Mars hit a great ball. After 30 minutes, Emil Seidler mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Austria and the Pirsus players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 32nd minute, Lionel Faoccia 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. In the 37th minute Sandro Galishoff shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Igor Eigel saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 42nd minute, Emil Seidler hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. An unexpectedly hard shot by Giuliano Spiller in the 48th minute of play forced Austria's goalkeeper Fabio Auer to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. When the referee blew for the end of the half the home team players were clearly happier, as they went in to the break leading 2-0.

In the 55th minute Percy Ziegler 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. A collision led to Pirsus getting a freekick after 65 minutes play. Giuliano Spiller hit a great ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Lionel Faoccia in the 67th minute of play forced Austria's goalkeeper Fabio Auer to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 68 minutes into the match, Lionel Faoccia notched a goal, 3-0, to the right of Austria's Fabio Auer. Fabio Auer was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. After 72 played minutes Austria got a freekick which was hit by Emil Seidler. Nico Waismann made in the 73rd minute of the game a throw-in that took a bad bounce and was taken care of by Pirsus's Lionel Faoccia. Emil Seidler kicked well hit freekick during the 75th minute of the match. In the 87th minute, Lionel Faoccia ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Fabio Auer was frozen by the shot and now it was 4-0. A collision led to Austria getting a freekick after 93 minutes play. Nico Waismann hit a great ball. Pirsus's fans were exulted and cheered after their team won in a match that could easily have gone the other way.