Challenge

Estadio Monumental
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. Adam Olaru started the match with the kick off. With a little luck, Romania's Carol Stinga got control of the ball when Costante Segarra tried to sneak it across the goal line. After 4 minutes Romania's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Fabio Cordarell who took care of the corner kick. After taking down the ball on Union Y Progreso F.C.'s corner Carlos Sueiro fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Carol Stinga quite easily take care of the ball. Sanda Cutov hit a great freekick 5 minutes into the match. Zeng Ting Xing received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 6th minute. Carol Stinga tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Dragomir Marchovski showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Adam Olaru, who was totally free with the ball in the 11th minute. In the 13th minute Santiago Meruendano shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Carol Stinga saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. The audience was convinced that Adam Olaru's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Dragomir Marchovski was relentless in the 16th minute of the game. In the 19th minute Santiago Meruendano shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Carol Stinga saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 21st minute Rasvan Cristescu shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Dragomir Marchovski saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Carol Stinga showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Zeng Ting Xing in the 24th minute of the match. Union Y Progreso F.C.'s Dragomir Marchovski played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Adam Olaru in the 25th minute of play. If Santiago Meruendano had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 26th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Dragomir Marchovski showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Adam Olaru, who was totally free with the ball in the 31st minute. Union Y Progreso F.C.'s Dragomir Marchovski played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Costica Vladimiri in the 33rd minute of play. In the 35th minute Costica Vladimiri shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Dragomir Marchovski saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. León Rapela charged in rather forcefully in the 37th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed León Rapela the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. An unexpectedly hard shot by Alex Serban in the 43rd minute of play forced Union Y Progreso F.C.'s goalkeeper Dragomir Marchovski to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball.

The wind increased when Zeng Ting Xing made the kick off in the second half. Adam Olaru succeeded in the game's 53rd minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 0-2. Dragomir Marchovski showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Adam Olaru in the 56th minute of the match. After 65 played minutes Union Y Progreso F.C. got a freekick which was hit by Ambrossi Gigante. Romania made a substitution. Anton Stinga replaced Adam Olaru. Carol Stinga took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Zeng Ting Xing, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Romania's Octavian Vaduva got a good chance for a goal in the 69th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Pan Zheng Li hit a great freekick 73 minutes into the match. In the 77th minute the ball was on its way in behind Union Y Progreso F.C.'s goalkeeper Dragomir Marchovski, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. The audience thought a goal was coming when Octavian Vaduva got free with Dragomir Marchovski in the 82nd minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. After having played for 83 minutes, Santiago Meruendano managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Union Y Progreso F.C.'s supporters crossed their fingers, but Santiago Meruendano was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. 88 minutes into the match, Union Y Progreso F.C.'s goalkeeper Dragomir Marchovski had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Octavian Vaduva. In the 95th minute Santiago Meruendano shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Carol Stinga saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Romania's fans were overjoyed with their teams well-earned victory and stayed in the stadium long after the final whistle to celebrate the win.