Challenge

Salento Arena
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Toni Mauzer made the kick off and thus started the match. In the 3rd minute, Patrice Brechbühl ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Ilija Skugor was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-0. After 13 minutes, Dinko Stankovic mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Croatia and the SalentoUnited players grew even worse after the yellow card. After a rather tough play, Croatia's Dinko Stankovic got a free kick in the 13th minute. After having played for 14 minutes, Rasmus Højlund managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. SalentoUnited's supporters crossed their fingers, but Rasmus Højlund was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Manfred Bayer in the 22nd managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Ilija Skugor saved Croatia from getting behind. Ilija Skugor showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Rasmus Højlund, who was totally free with the ball in the 25th minute. The audience thought a goal was coming when Manfred Bayer got free with Ilija Skugor in the 26th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. An unexpectedly hard shot by Rasmus Højlund in the 27th minute of play forced Croatia's goalkeeper Ilija Skugor to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. If Patrice Brechbühl had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 28th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. In the 30th minute, Silvije Santek hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. When the match had gone on for 31 minutes, Rasmus Højlund put it in 4-0 from a short distance just to the right of Ilija Skugor. Zarpas Jons kicked well hit freekick during the 34th minute of the match. Benjamin Domazet's late challenge caught a SalentoUnited's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Benjamin Domazet helped the player get up and apologised. After a rather tough play, Croatia's Benjamin Domazet got a free kick in the 36th minute. Martin Bosak kicked well hit freekick during the 39th minute of the match. Patrik Terzic kicked well hit freekick during the 39th minute of the match. After some fancy dribbling in the 40th minute, Boris Walpert managed to get in a good position for a shot. SalentoUnited's supporters rose to their feet, but Boris Walpert was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Ilija Skugor breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. In the 42nd minute, Patrice Brechbühl left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The SalentoUnited fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 5-0. Ilija Skugor made a fantastic save in the 47th minute, when Manfred Bayer sent off a good shot on target.

Ilija Skugor came out of the goal in the 51st minute to try and stop a shot by SalentoUnited's Manfred Bayer. But to his dismay, Manfred Bayer quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 6-0. Ilija Skugor didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when SalentoUnited's Manfred Bayer shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 7-0 in the ordered_time% minute. In the 58th minute Manfred Bayer shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Ilija Skugor saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Rasmus Højlund scored 8-0 in the 60th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Ilija Skugor, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Ilija Skugor showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Rasmus Højlund, who was totally free with the ball in the 68th minute. In the 70th minute, Manfred Bayer ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Ilija Skugor was frozen by the shot and now it was 10-0. In the 73rd minute, Manfred Bayer ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Ilija Skugor was frozen by the shot and now it was 11-0. Ilija Skugor didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when SalentoUnited's Patrice Brechbühl shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 13-0 in the ordered_time% minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Manfred Bayer in the 84th minute of play forced Croatia's goalkeeper Ilija Skugor to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After 85 minutes Croatia's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Boris Walpert who took care of the corner kick. 89 minutes into the match, Manfred Bayer had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Ilija Skugor. Croatia's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Manfred Bayer was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 15-0. Croatia's Ilija Skugor played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Patrice Brechbühl in the 92nd minute of play. Ilija Skugor made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Manfred Bayer in the 94th minute of play. It was no surprise that this one had ended in a win for the home team. SalentoUnited had played much better football throughout.