Challenge

Emirates Stadium
Spectators: 41 (Terracing: 32, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Ali Hamza Hanefi got the match started through his kick off. A nice corner shot did that Ali Hamza Hanefi got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Rolando Noboa quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. Peru's Rolando Noboa proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 8th minute of the match, managed to save Peru from getting a goal against them. Christian Abbiati made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Julian Murillo in the 10th minute of play. After having played for 11 minutes, Milagros Fraga managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Peru's supporters crossed their fingers, but Milagros Fraga was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. 15 minutes into the match, KANONIERZY's goal looked a bit too open when Julian Murillo came free, but Christian Abbiati reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Christian Abbiati took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Julian Murillo, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Rolando Noboa showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Ali Hamza Hanefi in the 20th minute of the match. In the 21st minute of the match KANONIERZY got a corner. Peru's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Ali Hamza Hanefi ran over to the corner to take the kick. Christian Abbiati showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Julian Murillo, who was totally free with the ball in the 22nd minute. Christian Abbiati took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Julian Murillo, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. 25 minutes had been played when some careless play by KANONIERZY's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Luz Tejedor was slow to take the kick. During this time Peru's players had a chance to rest. Peru's Luz Tejedor was first on the ball when the corner was shot and he dangerously headed the ball towards goal, but Christian Abbiati in the goal jumped up to prevent it from getting in. Rolando Noboa showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Ali Hamza Hanefi, who was totally free with the ball in the 28th minute. Peru's Eliseo Mina quite brazenly broke a throw-in by Eduardo Beltran, made in the 32nd minute of the game. The audience was convinced that Julian Murillo's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Christian Abbiati was relentless in the 33rd minute of the game. The audience was convinced that Julian Murillo's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Christian Abbiati was relentless in the 33rd minute of the game. KANONIERZY's Christian Abbiati played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Julian Murillo in the 35th minute of play. Christian Abbiati showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Julian Murillo, who was totally free with the ball in the 39th minute. In the 42nd minute of the game Eduardo Beltran made a throw-in which Julian Zgonina played forward. In the 44th minute Julian Murillo shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Christian Abbiati saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 47 minutes had been played when some careless play by Peru's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Ali Hamza Hanefi was slow to take the kick. During this time KANONIERZY's players had a chance to rest. After the first half the score was level. The break gave the players a chance to catch their breath, whilst the managers went over the tactics with them again.

Christian Abbiati made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Julian Murillo in the 52nd minute of play. Peru's Milagros Fraga suffered a sprained foot after 58 minutes and couldn't finish the game. Bernard Poniewaz charged in rather forcefully in the 58th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Bernard Poniewaz the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. The supporters of Peru booed when KANONIERZY was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 59 match minutes in a wonderful position. Bernard Poniewaz didn't get a good kick on the ball. After a defensive mix-up in KANONIERZY's zone, Eliseo Alcocer stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Christian Abbiati came out of the goal and Eliseo Alcocer tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Christian Abbiati didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Julian Murillo went, in the 62nd minute, to the upper right corner, 0-1 was the resulting score. Peru's Rolando Noboa played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Ime Mavros in the 69th minute of play. Rolando Noboa took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Ime Mavros, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. 72 minutes into the match, Peru's goal looked a bit too open when Ime Mavros came free, but Rolando Noboa reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Julian Murillo's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but Christian Abbiati read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 75th minute of play. When the match had gone on for 77 minutes, Julian Murillo took a quick shot and it went in 0-2 without a chance for Christian Abbiati to make any attempt to save it. In the 81st minute, Joaquin Prats hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Peru made a substitution. Rafael Gallo replaced Julian Murillo. After 82 played minutes Peru got a freekick which was hit by Joaquin Prats. In the 86th minute, Gösta Söderberg ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Rolando Noboa was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-2. Rolando Noboa showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Gösta Söderberg in the 91st minute of the match. Christian Abbiati showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Rafael Gallo, who was totally free with the ball in the 93rd minute. After 94 minutes, Ivo Chaves mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the KANONIERZY and the Peru players grew even worse after the yellow card. Peru played a much better game than KANONIERZY and deserved their victory. The KANONIERZY players were clearly disappointed as they left the ground.