Challenge

Estadio Olímpico
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Daniel Zorita kicked off to start the match. 3 minutes into the match, Club Atlético Escocia's goalkeeper Roberto-Carlos Abbondanzieri had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Cristian Sancho. Julio Vera showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Leonel Caponi, who was totally free with the ball in the 8th minute. When the match had gone on for 10 minutes, Felix Montenegro took a quick shot and it went in 1-0 without a chance for Roberto-Carlos Abbondanzieri to make any attempt to save it. After some fancy dribbling in the 13th minute, Leonel Caponi managed to get in a good position for a shot. Club Atlético Escocia's supporters rose to their feet, but Leonel Caponi was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Julio Vera breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Roberto-Carlos Abbondanzieri showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Cristian Sancho, who was totally free with the ball in the 17th minute. Roberto-Carlos Abbondanzieri made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Cristian Sancho in the 21st minute of play. The audience was convinced that Leonel Caponi's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Julio Vera was relentless in the 28th minute of the game. Julio Vera showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Jonas Tauro, who was totally free with the ball in the 29th minute. Julio Vera showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Anastasio Gagriel, who was totally free with the ball in the 33rd minute. Julio Vera stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Leonel Caponi's shot from short distance in the 36th minute. Daniel Zorita fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 43rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Roberto-Carlos Abbondanzieri having to interfere. In the 47th match minute, Club Atlético Escocia was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Venancio Mikolas to maneuver through the defense. When the referee blew for the end of the half the home team players were clearly happier, as they went in to the break leading 1-0.

Aquiles Lazcano charged in rather forcefully in the 52nd minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Aquiles Lazcano the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. In the 53rd match minute, Club Atlético Escocia was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Aquiles Lazcano to maneuver through the defense. With a little luck, Ecuador's Julio Vera got control of the ball when Anastasio Gagriel tried to sneak it across the goal line. Anastasio Gagriel could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 62nd minute of the match, but Julio Vera made a huge save. Club Atlético Escocia's Pascual Ado was substituted for Narciso Sauveur. After a rather tough play, Club Atlético Escocia's Justin Tello got a free kick in the 64th minute. After 73 minutes of play, Ecuador's Daniel Zorita made it 2-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Roberto-Carlos Abbondanzieri was left in no man's land by his defense there! Julio Vera made an important save on a dangerous shot by Clemente Oroitz in the 79th minute. The crowd rose to their feet as Club Atlético Escocia's Clemente Oroitz slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Julio Vera. That made the score 2-1 after 79 minutes of play. A collision led to Club Atlético Escocia getting a freekick after 83 minutes play. Anastasio Gagriel hit a great ball. Agustín Saelices received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 89th minute. Roberto-Carlos Abbondanzieri tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 95th match minute, Club Atlético Escocia was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Aquiles Lazcano to maneuver through the defense. In the 96th minute Felix Montenegro shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Roberto-Carlos Abbondanzieri saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 97 minutes had been played when some careless play by Club Atlético Escocia's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Daniel Zorita was slow to take the kick. During this time Ecuador's players had a chance to rest. Ecuador's supporters were delighted with their team's performance and swarmed onto the pitch at the end of the match to celebrate the victory with the players.