Challenge

Signal Iduna Park
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Lara Guadalupi showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Cassius Byrne, who was totally free with the ball in the 3rd minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Valério Ortiz in the 5th minute of play forced USA's goalkeeper Marco Day to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 5 minutes into the match, Valério Ortiz notched a goal, 1-0, to the right of USA's Marco Day. Marco Day was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Lara Guadalupi made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Cassius Byrne in the 7th minute of play. 13 minutes into the match, USA's Edward Mcdonald sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Lara Guadalupi narrowly saved just below the crossbar. After 14 played minutes MAGNIFICOS.FC got a freekick which was hit by Gilberto Lalla. Lara Guadalupi made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Monty Rogers in the 15th minute of play. An unexpectedly hard shot by Cassius Byrne in the 19th minute of play forced MAGNIFICOS.FC's goalkeeper Lara Guadalupi to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Lara Guadalupi made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Zach Harrison in the 25th minute of play. If Valério Ortiz had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 27th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. Marco Day made an important save on a dangerous shot by Valério Ortiz in the 27th minute. In the 30thth minute of the game Cassius Byrne who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but MAGNIFICOS.FC's Lara Guadalupi was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. In the 31st minute USA were awarded a corner. Cassius Byrne went to the cornerflag to take it. The crowd rose to their feet as Valério Ortiz kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Marco Day. That made the score 2-0 in the 34 minute of play. Edward Mcdonald fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 40th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Lara Guadalupi having to interfere. After some fancy dribbling in the 44th minute, Edward Mcdonald managed to get in a good position for a shot. USA's supporters rose to their feet, but Edward Mcdonald was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Lara Guadalupi breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Monty Rogers scored 2-1 in the 46th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Lara Guadalupi, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Valério Ortiz to strike the kick off in the second half. 53 minutes into the match, MAGNIFICOS.FC's goal looked a bit too open when Edward Mcdonald came free, but Lara Guadalupi reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. 55 minutes into the game, Zach Harrison cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 2-2. Lara Guadalupi was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. MAGNIFICOS.FC's Geert Wijgaert was substituted for Valério Ortiz. In the 59th minute of the game Raphael Moore made a throw-in which Jacob May played forward. Marco Day showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Frederico Hermes in the 63rd minute of the match. In the 65th minute the ball was on its way in behind MAGNIFICOS.FC's goalkeeper Lara Guadalupi, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. A collision led to MAGNIFICOS.FC getting a freekick after 67 minutes play. Omer Guyomarch hit a great ball. The audience thought a goal was coming when Monty Rogers got free with Lara Guadalupi in the 69th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Sam Campbell came free with the goalkeeper in the 71st minute of the match, and shot straight on target. The shot was a little too simple and Lara Guadalupi could save by the left post. In the 73rd minute the ball was on its way in behind MAGNIFICOS.FC's goalkeeper Lara Guadalupi, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. In the 78thth minute of the game Geert Wijgaert who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but USA's Marco Day was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. A throw-in in the 81st minute of the game was made by Raphael Moore with Sam Campbell as target, who quickly passed the ball forward. After 83 played minutes MAGNIFICOS.FC got a freekick which was hit by Geert Wijgaert. An unexpectedly hard shot by Geert Wijgaert in the 84th minute of play forced USA's goalkeeper Marco Day to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After 87 played minutes MAGNIFICOS.FC got a freekick which was hit by Omer Guyomarch. In the 88th minute, Zach Harrison hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After 89 played minutes, MAGNIFICOS.FC's Gilberto Lalla shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Marco Day 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 MAGNIFICOS.FC reached it. 90 minutes had been played when some careless play by USA's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Gilberto Lalla was slow to take the kick. During this time MAGNIFICOS.FC's players had a chance to rest. A nice corner shot did that Gilberto Lalla got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Marco Day quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. The audience cheered when Gilberto Lalla's long shot passed Marco Day's right side. It was 3-3, 90 minutes into the match. In the 93rd minute Khalid Parry shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Lara Guadalupi saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. MAGNIFICOS.FC succeeded in salvaging a draw, even though USA had controlled the match.