Challenge

-IOG- Arena
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Joel Gaona got the match started through his kick off. An unexpectedly hard shot by Lautaro Mancebo in the 2nd minute of play forced -IOG- Instruments of God's goalkeeper 龙夕兴 to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 龙夕兴 showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Lautaro Mancebo, who was totally free with the ball in the 5th minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Lautaro Mancebo in the 11th minute of play forced -IOG- Instruments of God's goalkeeper 龙夕兴 to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After a rather tough play, -IOG- Instruments of God's Bror Ahlroth got a free kick in the 15th minute. Joel Gaona took a chance and fired a shot far from the goal in the 16th minute, but it turned out to be a dangerous situation for 龙夕兴. -IOG- Instruments of God's goalkeeper really had to stretch himself to stop the ball from crossing the goal line. The goalkeeper smacked the ball away after a great corner, but Lautaro Mancebo advanced and headed the ball into goal, 0-1 in the 17th minute. In the 22nd minute, Lautaro Mancebo left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Mexico fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-2. After a defensive mix-up in -IOG- Instruments of God's zone, Lautaro Mancebo stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. 龙夕兴 came out of the goal and Lautaro Mancebo tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. If Alberto Tafalla had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 38th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Lautaro Mancebo took the ball and in the 39 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised 龙夕兴. 龙夕兴 dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 0-3. When the match had gone on for 42 minutes, Andreas Spets took a quick shot and it went in 1-3 without a chance for Dante Lacasa to make any attempt to save it. With his leg Dante Lacasa managed to avoid a goal in the 47thth minute, when -IOG- Instruments of God's Börge Åkerman fired away a shot with a lot of spin towards his right hand side. Disappointed in the 1-3 score, the home team went to the dressing room to adjust tactics for the second half.

With a little luck, -IOG- Instruments of God's 龙夕兴 got control of the ball when Lautaro Mancebo tried to sneak it across the goal line. 龙夕兴 was out of position in the 52 minute of play, and Lautaro Mancebo capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Lautaro Mancebo really showed his touch with that goal: 1-4. 55 minutes into the match, -IOG- Instruments of God's goalkeeper 龙夕兴 had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Alberto Tafalla. If Alberto Tafalla had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 58th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 65thth minute of the game Joel Gaona who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but -IOG- Instruments of God's 龙夕兴 was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Kent Gråberg kicked well hit freekick during the 71st minute of the match. The audience thought a goal was coming when Lautaro Mancebo got free with 龙夕兴 in the 74th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Lautaro Mancebo's shot straight on target was not completely harmless. The ball had pretty good speed, but 龙夕兴 firmly grabbed it by the left post. -IOG- Instruments of God's 龙夕兴 proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 78th minute of the match, managed to save -IOG- Instruments of God from getting a goal against them. Börge Åkerman kicked well hit freekick during the 79th minute of the match. After 86 played minutes Mexico's Alberto Tafalla stole the ball from his opponents and shot the ball towards the upper left corner, but 龙夕兴 stretched himself as far as he could, and stopped the ball from passing the line. robbing -IOG- Instruments of God of the goal. Mexico's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Joel Gaona in the 87th minute. The corner ended in Luca Zorita almost managing to get the ball behind the net, but -IOG- Instruments of God's 龙夕兴 did a great save. In the 89th minute, Mexico's Luca Zorita ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind 龙夕兴. 龙夕兴 yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 1-5. In the 92nd minute, Adrian Rosén hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. When Andreas Spets fell near the penalty area in the 94th minute he thought he would be awarded a free kick. The referee ignored -IOG- Instruments of God's protests and gave Andreas Spets a yellow card for diving instead. A collision led to -IOG- Instruments of God getting a freekick after 94 minutes play. Andreas Spets hit a great ball. In the 95th minute, Adrian Rosén hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field.