Challenge

Arena BraveHeart
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Gijsbert ter Kruimer started the match with the kick off. 6 minutes into the match, BraveHeart Warriors's goal looked a bit too open when Gijsbert ter Kruimer came free, but Diguinho Oliveira reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Arnout Reekers showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Kamil Baycan, who was totally free with the ball in the 9th minute. Wei Fan Li made a great header on BraveHeart Warriors's corner, it was just that Netherlands's Arnout Reekers managed to reach the ball for a save. Kamil Baycan hit a great freekick 16 minutes into the match. If Gustaaf Groeneveldt had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 21st minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. The crowd rose to their feet as BraveHeart Warriors's Kamil Baycan slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Arnout Reekers. That made the score 1-0 after 27 minutes of play. After a defensive mix-up in BraveHeart Warriors's zone, Wim Wilmes stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Diguinho Oliveira came out of the goal and Wim Wilmes tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Arnout Reekers was a little too slow when Kamil Baycan got a fine hit on the ball which went right into the goal in the 38th minute. The score was now 2-0. BraveHeart Warriors's Diguinho Oliveira played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Wim Wilmes in the 42nd minute of play. The audience thought a goal was coming when Carlos Fernando Fantini got free with Arnout Reekers in the 43rd minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Lars Meesters might have been able to make a better finish in the 44th minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Diguinho Oliveira. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Lars Meesters ran back to his position shaking his head. BraveHeart Warriors's Diguinho Oliveira played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Lars Meesters in the 44th minute of play. Wim Wilmes received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 46th minute. Diguinho Oliveira tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Kamil Baycan to make the kick off. Arnout Reekers showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Carlos Fernando Fantini in the 55th minute of the match. After 55 minutes of play, BraveHeart Warriors's Carlos Fernando Fantini made it 3-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Arnout Reekers was left in no man's land by his defense there! Arnout Reekers took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Kamil Baycan, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. When Kamil Baycan got free in front of the goal in the 62nd minute he wasn't very focused and chipped the ball just over the goal. Arnout Reekers was delighted since he was out of position and the ball would have got in if it had gone under the crossbar. The throw-in from Thierry Henry in the 66th minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by Netherlands's Lars Meesters. In the 71st minute Kamil Baycan shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Arnout Reekers saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Diguinho Oliveira made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Gijsbert ter Kruimer in the 73rd minute of play. Netherlands's Arnout Reekers played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Kamil Baycan in the 75th minute of play. In the 76th minute Thierry Henry shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Arnout Reekers saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Diguinho Oliveira made a fantastic save in the 79th minute, when Wim Wilmes sent off a good shot on target. 82 minutes into the game, BraveHeart Warriors's Thierry Henry nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Arnout Reekers made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 4-0. Gijsbert ter Kruimer fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 89th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Diguinho Oliveira having to interfere. BraveHeart Warriors's Diguinho Oliveira proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 91st minute of the match, managed to save BraveHeart Warriors from getting a goal against them. An unexpectedly hard shot by Kamil Baycan in the 96th minute of play forced Netherlands's goalkeeper Arnout Reekers to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. BraveHeart Warriors's fans were exulted and cheered after their team won in a match that could easily have gone the other way.