Challenge

Cacho Saccardi
Spectators: 39 (Terracing: 30, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) After 6 minutes, Moises Fernandino mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the El Salvador and the Trinidad 4.7 players grew even worse after the yellow card. After 6 played minutes El Salvador got a freekick which was hit by Moises Fernandino. Omar Txaran received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 8th minute. Ricardo Zorita tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. A collision led to Trinidad 4.7 getting a freekick after 13 minutes play. Emmanuel Mammana hit a great ball. The audience thought a goal was coming when Alejo Gurutz got free with Ricardo Zorita in the 19th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. With a little luck, El Salvador's Ricardo Zorita got control of the ball when Leonides Jenaro tried to sneak it across the goal line. Luis Rubio's late challenge caught a Trinidad 4.7's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Luis Rubio helped the player get up and apologised. Trinidad 4.7 made a substitution. Leo Ochoa replaced Olof Derksen. Luis Rubio kicked well hit freekick during the 22nd minute of the match. When the match had gone on for 23 minutes, Leo Ochoa took a quick shot and it went in 1-0 without a chance for Ricardo Zorita to make any attempt to save it. Alejo Gurutz took the ball and in the 26 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Ricardo Zorita. Ricardo Zorita dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 2-0. Moises Fernandino sent away a hard shot on goal in the 30th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. In the 32nd minute, Ion Varga made a precise shot to the right of Ricardo Zorita. El Salvador's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 3-0. Celestino Basualdo struck a weak shot in the 34th minute. Ricardo Zorita didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Trinidad 4.7. Valentino Ferrant kicked well hit freekick during the 35th minute of the match. Leo Ochoa sent away a hard shot on goal in the 37th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Ricardo Zorita showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Omar Txaran, who was totally free with the ball in the 38th minute. After some careless play in the El Salvador defense, Leo Ochoa kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Ricardo Zorita. The El Salvador fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Ricardo Zorita should have stopped the shot. El Salvador's attentive Valentino Ferrant managed to snatch the ball when Emmanuel Mammana made a throw-in in the 42nd minute of the game. El Salvador's Ricardo Zorita played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Leo Ochoa in the 43rd minute of play. In the 45th minute, Omar Txaran made a precise shot to the right of Ricardo Zorita. El Salvador's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 5-0. In the 48th minute, El Salvador's goalie took a deep sigh of relief after Leonides Jenaro fired away a hard shot that went just outside the left post.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Leo Ochoa to make the kick off. Leo Ochoa charged in rather forcefully in the 52nd minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Leo Ochoa the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. The supporters of Trinidad 4.7 booed when El Salvador was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 53 match minutes in a wonderful position. Moises Fernandino didn't get a good kick on the ball. In the 55th minute Celestino Basualdo shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Ricardo Zorita saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 56th minute of the match Trinidad 4.7 got a corner. El Salvador's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Elias Gomez ran over to the corner to take the kick. Ricardo Zorita made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Celestino Basualdo in the 58th minute of play. Omar Txaran fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 59th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Ricardo Zorita having to interfere. After 68 minutes, Valentino Ferrant mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the El Salvador and the Trinidad 4.7 players grew even worse after the yellow card. After 68 played minutes El Salvador got a freekick which was hit by Valentino Ferrant. Leo Ochoa sent away a hard shot on goal in the 72nd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. An unexpectedly hard shot by Abram Luque in the 74th minute of play forced Trinidad 4.7's goalkeeper Danilo Heli to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Ricardo Zorita didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Omar Txaran went, in the 76th minute, to the upper right corner, 7-0 was the resulting score. After 79 minutes of play, Trinidad 4.7's Leo Ochoa made it 8-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Ricardo Zorita was left in no man's land by his defense there! Ricardo Zorita showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Omar Txaran in the 83rd minute of the match. After some careless play in the El Salvador defense, Leo Ochoa kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Ricardo Zorita. The El Salvador fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Ricardo Zorita should have stopped the shot. Trinidad 4.7's Astor Diegotxe was substituted for Emmanuel Mammana. After having played for 91 minutes, Celestino Basualdo managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Trinidad 4.7's supporters crossed their fingers, but Celestino Basualdo was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. 93 minutes into the match, Omar Txaran had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Ricardo Zorita. El Salvador's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Omar Txaran was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 10-0.