Friendly League

New York Arena
Spectators: 36 (Terracing: 28, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) Chico Valadares started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. . SC Manhattan .'s Markus Münch quite brazenly broke a throw-in by Antonio Di Natale, made in the 5th minute of the game. GeRaÇãO-83's Grzegorz Siekierski proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 7th minute of the match, managed to save GeRaÇãO-83 from getting a goal against them. Matias Taffarel showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Luiz Fabiano Duarte in the 11th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Edin Džeko in the 14th minute of play forced . SC Manhattan .'s goalkeeper Matias Taffarel to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. A nice corner shot did that Muhammadu ibn Abi Bakr got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Matias Taffarel quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. 17 minutes into the match, GeRaÇãO-83's Edin Džeko sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Matias Taffarel narrowly saved just below the crossbar. In the 23rd minute Chico Valadares shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Grzegorz Siekierski saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. An unexpectedly hard shot by Edin Džeko in the 25th minute of play forced . SC Manhattan .'s goalkeeper Matias Taffarel to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Edin Džeko took the ball and in the 25 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Matias Taffarel. Matias Taffarel dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 0-1. Washington Netto kicked well hit freekick during the 29th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Edin Džeko in the 31st minute of play forced . SC Manhattan .'s goalkeeper Matias Taffarel to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After a rather tough play, . SC Manhattan .'s Markus Münch got a free kick in the 33rd minute. Van Dijk hit a great freekick 35 minutes into the match. Matias Taffarel made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Edin Džeko in the 41st minute of play. Matias Taffarel made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Edin Džeko in the 45th minute of play. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-1 lead.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Medero Gadea made a kick off. Grzegorz Siekierski showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Chico Valadares, who was totally free with the ball in the 52nd minute. Antonio Di Natale hit a great freekick 54 minutes into the match. Matias Taffarel took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Edin Džeko, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. The crowd rose to their feet as GeRaÇãO-83's Silas de Lima slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Matias Taffarel. That made the score 0-2 after 71 minutes of play. With a little luck, . SC Manhattan .'s Matias Taffarel got control of the ball when Edin Džeko tried to sneak it across the goal line. If Chico Valadares had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 78th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. Grzegorz Siekierski showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Chico Valadares in the 78th minute of the match. With a little luck, . SC Manhattan .'s Matias Taffarel got control of the ball when Edin Džeko tried to sneak it across the goal line. In the 82nd minute, Mateus Botelho hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. . SC Manhattan .'s defense didn't have a chance, in the 83rd minute, when Edin Džeko scored to the left of an out of position Matias Taffarel, making the score, 0-3. Matias Taffarel made a fantastic save in the 90th minute, when Edin Džeko sent off a good shot on target. The GeRaÇãO-83 supporters could be heard counting down the last seconds of the match. They errupted in celebration when the whistle blew, knowing GeRaÇãO-83 would go home with victory in their luggage after a match that easily could have ended differently.