Challenge

Serbia Arena
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Afonsinho Fontes started the match with the kick off. The supporters of BIRUTI FC booed when Serbia was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 2 match minutes in a wonderful position. Cvijetin Nanusevski didn't get a good kick on the ball. After 3 minutes, Miljan Gavrilovic mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Serbia and the BIRUTI FC players grew even worse after the yellow card. Miljan Gavrilovic kicked well hit freekick during the 3rd minute of the match. 6 minutes into the game, Bebeto Lara was given a yellow card after he appeared to trip an opposing player. BIRUTI FC's manager was livid on the sidelines, but the referee was unmoved and gave Serbia the free kick. Bebeto Lara hit a great freekick 6 minutes into the match. A collision led to Serbia getting a freekick after 9 minutes play. Sreten Popovic hit a great ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Sreten Popovic in the 11th minute of play forced BIRUTI FC's goalkeeper Duda Pena to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 14th minute, Tião de Alcântara hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After 17 played minutes Serbia got a freekick which was hit by Jovan Borisov. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Afonsinho Fontes in the 24th minute of the match. In the 28th minute, Ismael Alves left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The BIRUTI FC fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-1. 38 minutes into the game, one of Serbia:s players got tackled near the goal, and the referee blew for a penalty. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-3.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Sreten Popovic made a kick off. In the 57th match minute, Serbia was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Cvijetin Nanusevski to maneuver through the defense. If Afonsinho Fontes had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 58th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. In the 63rd minute Bebeto Lara shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Zvezdan Nedeljkovic saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic was a little too slow when Afonsinho Fontes got a fine hit on the ball which went right into the goal in the 64th minute. The score was now 0-4. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Afonsinho Fontes, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Drasko Rajkovic sent away a hard shot on goal in the 79th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Zvezdan Nedeljkovic showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Afonsinho Fontes, who was totally free with the ball in the 81st minute. Sreten Popovic received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 84th minute. Duda Pena tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. 87 minutes into the match, BIRUTI FC's goal looked a bit too open when Sreten Popovic came free, but Duda Pena reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Ismael Alves hit a great freekick 91 minutes into the match. The referee blew the final whistle, and the away crowd roared, having watched BIRUTI FC eke out a victory against a very well matched opponent.