Challenge

Aufbau-Arena
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Cassius Byrne made the kick off which started today's match. 6 minutes into the match, 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz's goal looked a bit too open when Edward Mcdonald came free, but Heinz-Gerd Bonin reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. USA's Marco Day proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 7th minute of the match, managed to save USA from getting a goal against them. Monty Rogers sent away a hard shot on goal in the 9th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Heinz-Gerd Bonin showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Cassius Byrne in the 12th minute of the match. 13 minutes had been played when some careless play by 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Cassius Byrne was slow to take the kick. During this time USA's players had a chance to rest. Freerk Sauer kicked well hit freekick during the 20th minute of the match. Monty Rogers received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 21st minute. Heinz-Gerd Bonin tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 24th match minute, 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Egon Künkler to maneuver through the defense. When Cassius Byrne came up free with the goalie in the 26th minute, the USA fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Cassius Byrne couldn't finish the play. Marco Day showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Matti Erkiner in the 31st minute of the match. After 31 played minutes 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz got a freekick which was hit by Freerk Sauer. Thanks to some nice foot action and superb ball handling Monty Rogers in the 34th minute a chance for a shot on goal. With an extended leg and a bit of luck Heinz-Gerd Bonin prevented the ball from getting in the gole. Marco Day showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Matti Erkiner in the 39th minute of the match. Theo Ljucovic sent away a hard shot on goal in the 46th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Uwe-Jens Röttger to make the kick off. Matti Erkiner sent away a hard shot on goal in the 51st minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. 53 minutes into the match, USA's goal looked a bit too open when Theo Ljucovic came free, but Marco Day reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. 54 minutes into the match, 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz's goal looked a bit too open when Monty Rogers came free, but Heinz-Gerd Bonin reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 56th minute of the match, Monty Rogers tried to roll the ball into the goal by the right post, but Heinz-Gerd Bonin saw his intentions and got control of the ball before it passed the line. 57 minutes had been played when some careless play by 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Cassius Byrne was slow to take the kick. During this time USA's players had a chance to rest. Diego Bradley made a great header on USA's corner, it was just that 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz's Heinz-Gerd Bonin managed to reach the ball for a save. Marco Day showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Matti Erkiner in the 60th minute of the match. After 64 minutes USA's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Andras Gafus who took care of the corner kick. A nice corner shot did that Andras Gafus got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Marco Day quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. If Matti Erkiner had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 68th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. USA's Sam Campbell was substituted for Cassius Byrne. Heinz-Gerd Bonin made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Monty Rogers in the 72nd minute of play. 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz's Marcus Willmann was substituted for Uwe-Jens Röttger. 73 minutes into the game, one of USA:s players got tackled near the goal, and the referee blew for a penalty. USA:s Marco Day showed great skill when he stopped Matti Erkiner:s penalty. The audience was convinced that Marcus Willmann's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Marco Day was relentless in the 79th minute of the game. Heinz-Gerd Bonin made a fantastic save in the 83rd minute, when Edward Mcdonald sent off a good shot on target. Heinz-Gerd Bonin was a little too slow when Sam Campbell got a fine hit on the ball which went right into the goal in the 83rd minute. The score was now 0-2. USA made a substitution. Khalid Parry replaced Monty Rogers. USA's Marco Day played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Matti Erkiner in the 88th minute of play. 92 minutes into the match, Sam Campbell had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Heinz-Gerd Bonin. 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Sam Campbell was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-3. In the 95th minute, Charles Gadd hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Sam Campbell had several of the 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz's defenders around him in the penalty area when he, after 96 minutes of play, received a pass and succeeded in some way to shoot a shot which went straight ahead into goal. This resulted in a 0-4 score and a disappointed Heinz-Gerd Bonin as he didn't even see the shot coming. When the final whistle sounded USA left the ground with the victory after a much better performance than 1.FC Aufbau-Einsturz.