Challenge

Virginia Bolten
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) After 4 minutes, Jose Correa mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Venezuela and the Acratas Unidos players grew even worse after the yellow card. Matthias Vall could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 5th minute of the match, but Jonathan Ferrant made a huge save. The crowd rose to their feet as Acratas Unidos's Margus Paukson slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Jonathan Ferrant. That made the score 1-0 after 8 minutes of play. With his leg Jonathan Ferrant managed to avoid a goal in the 11thth minute, when Acratas Unidos's Matthias Vall fired away a shot with a lot of spin towards his right hand side. 13 minutes had been played when some careless play by Venezuela's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Enrique Theobald was slow to take the kick. During this time Acratas Unidos's players had a chance to rest. After taking down the ball on Acratas Unidos's corner Margus Paukson fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Jonathan Ferrant quite easily take care of the ball. After some fancy dribbling in the 22nd minute, Igor Ospetsu managed to get in a good position for a shot. Acratas Unidos's supporters rose to their feet, but Igor Ospetsu was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Jonathan Ferrant breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Acratas Unidos's Carlitos Parodi played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Tomas Illescas in the 26th minute of play. Carlitos Parodi showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Tomas Illescas in the 31st minute of the match. 32 minutes into the match, Matthias Vall dribbled the ball past the defender and swiftly kicked the ball to the left of Jonathan Ferrant, 4-0. Carlitos Parodi took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Tomas Illescas, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the 38th match minute, Venezuela was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Alex Chicote to maneuver through the defense. Jonathan Ferrant was out of position in the 41 minute of play, and Matthias Vall capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Matthias Vall really showed his touch with that goal: 5-0. A collision led to Acratas Unidos getting a freekick after 45 minutes play. Evelio Tino hit a great ball. Margus Pauksons short, quick shot in the 47thth minute got Jonathan Ferrant to make great effort and bar the ball away from getting in. Af the end of the first half the score was 5-0. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Matthias Vall made a kick off. An unexpectedly hard shot by Matthias Vall in the 52nd minute of play forced Venezuela's goalkeeper Jonathan Ferrant to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Margus Paukson in the 53rd managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Jonathan Ferrant saved Venezuela from getting behind. After having played for 54 minutes, Matthias Vall managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Acratas Unidos's supporters crossed their fingers, but Matthias Vall was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. 58 minutes into the match, Margus Paukson notched a goal, 6-0, to the right of Venezuela's Jonathan Ferrant. Jonathan Ferrant was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. In the 60th minute, Aaron Ted hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Tomas Illescas received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 61st minute. Carlitos Parodi tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Venezuela's Jonathan Ferrant played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Margus Paukson in the 65th minute of play. Matthias Vall scored 7-0 in the 66th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Jonathan Ferrant, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. 71 minutes into the game, Acratas Unidos's Matthias Vall nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Jonathan Ferrant made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 8-0. Jonathan Ferrant stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Matthias Vall's shot from short distance in the 78th minute. Acratas Unidos's Enrique Theobald was first on the ball when the corner was shot and he dangerously headed the ball towards goal, but Jonathan Ferrant in the goal jumped up to prevent it from getting in. Jonathan Ferrant made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Matthias Vall in the 84th minute of play. After 85 minutes Venezuela's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Enrique Theobald who took care of the corner kick. Acratas Unidos were awarded a corner in the 88th minute after Venezuela's defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. Elias Bidun took the corner. The corner led Acratas Unidos's Elias Bidun to fire away a dangerous shot which Jonathan Ferrant despite some difficulties managed to get hold on the ball. After some fancy dribbling in the 93rd minute, Matthias Vall managed to get in a good position for a shot. Acratas Unidos's supporters rose to their feet, but Matthias Vall was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Jonathan Ferrant breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. There was no doubt that Acratas Unidos were the better team. Acratas Unidos's players enjoyed the ovations of the crowd after the victory.