Challenge

Italy Arena
Spectators: 49 (Terracing: 38, Seating: 11, VIP seats: 0) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Dušan Vlahovic made the kick off which started today's match. Flavio Vittori showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Dušan Vlahovic in the 2nd minute of the match. When Italy's Zaccheo Andolina in the 13th minute got a chance for a shot 13th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye Radnicki 1923 Kg-Stars™'s goalie prevented a goal. Zaccheo Andolina could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 14th minute of the match, but Fedele Giampieri made a huge save. After some careless play in the Italy defense, Gu Zhan Qiang kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Flavio Vittori. The Italy fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Flavio Vittori should have stopped the shot. Italy's attentive Eliseo Cutri managed to snatch the ball when Ali Vedat Nafi made a throw-in in the 19th minute of the game. 22 minutes into the match, Italy's Zaccheo Andolina sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Fedele Giampieri narrowly saved just below the crossbar. With a little luck, Radnicki 1923 Kg-Stars™'s Fedele Giampieri got control of the ball when Zaccheo Andolina tried to sneak it across the goal line. Zaccheo Andolina might have been able to make a better finish in the 26th minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Fedele Giampieri. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Zaccheo Andolina ran back to his position shaking his head. Zaccheo Andolina's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but Fedele Giampieri read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 28th minute of play. After 29 played minutes Zaccheo Andolina rounded Radnicki 1923 Kg-Stars™'s defense and shot a beautiful shot into goal via left pole - 1-1. Italy's attentive Eliseo Cutri managed to snatch the ball when Ali Vedat Nafi made a throw-in in the 32nd minute of the game. Flavio Vittori made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Gu Zhan Qiang in the 37th minute of play. Fedele Giampieri made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Zaccheo Andolina in the 40th minute of play. The throw-in from Ali Vedat Nafi in the 45th minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by Italy's Eliseo Cutri. The away team players looked dejected as the walked off the pitch at half time. They had fought hard, but were still losing 2-1.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Zaccheo Andolina to strike the kick off in the second half. 52 minutes into the match, Italy's Zaccheo Andolina sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Fedele Giampieri narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Flavio Vittori showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Gu Zhan Qiang, who was totally free with the ball in the 57th minute. 61 minutes into the match, Italy's goal looked a bit too open when Maksymilian Pyczkowski came free, but Flavio Vittori reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. An unexpected shot in the 62nd minute by Maksymilian Pyczkowski got the crowd on their feet, but to their dismay it went out on the left side. Fedele Giampieri made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Zaccheo Andolina in the 64th minute of play. Flavio Vittori made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Dušan Vlahovic in the 65th minute of play. Fedele Giampieri showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Sigfrido Auletta, who was totally free with the ball in the 67th minute. Radnicki 1923 Kg-Stars™ were awarded a corner in the 70th minute after Italy's defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. Kaká Beaton took the corner. Flavio Vittori showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Gu Zhan Qiang, who was totally free with the ball in the 72nd minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Kaká Beaton in the 74th minute of play forced Italy's goalkeeper Flavio Vittori to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 76 minutes into the match, Italy's Zaccheo Andolina sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Fedele Giampieri narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Flavio Vittori showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Kaká Beaton, who was totally free with the ball in the 77th minute. Nemanja Vidić kicked well hit freekick during the 78th minute of the match. After 79 played minutes, Italy's Sigfrido Auletta shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Fedele Giampieri came through and got his fingers on the ball before it flew over the goal line. He then quickly gripped the ball tighter before the forwards in Italy reached it. After 80 minutes of play, Radnicki 1923 Kg-Stars™'s Gu Zhan Qiang made it 2-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Flavio Vittori was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 86th minute Maksymilian Pyczkowski shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Flavio Vittori saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. An unexpectedly hard shot by Porziano Marchitelli in the 88th minute of play forced Radnicki 1923 Kg-Stars™'s goalkeeper Fedele Giampieri to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 89th minute of the match Italy got a corner. Radnicki 1923 Kg-Stars™'s goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Siricio Liotta ran over to the corner to take the kick. For all the effort they put into the match, the Radnicki 1923 Kg-Stars™ players left disappointed. They had fought hard, but couldn't break down the home team's defense. The match ended in a win for Italy.