Challenge

Estadio Olímpico
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) The crowd rose to their feet as Ecuador's Daniel Zorita slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Cătălin Jdeica. That made the score 1-0 after 3 minutes of play. In the 6th minute of the match, Daniel Zorita got a very nice opportunity to score, but Cătălin Jdeica was well-placed and pushed the ball away from the goal at the left post. 7 minutes had been played when some careless play by BlueLionesse'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. After a rather tough play, BlueLionesse's Grigore Ciorbea got a free kick in the 9th minute. Agustín Saelices received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Cătălin Jdeica came out and tried to block the shot, but Agustín Saelices slotted it home off the left post making it 2-0 in the 10th minute. Cătălin Jdeica made a fantastic save in the 13th minute, when Cristian Sancho sent off a good shot on target. 14 minutes had been played when some careless play by BlueLionesse'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. If Daniel Zorita had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 21st minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. After a defensive mix-up in BlueLionesse's zone, Daniel Zorita stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Cătălin Jdeica came out of the goal and Daniel Zorita tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. In the 30th minute, Daniel Zorita ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Cătălin Jdeica was frozen by the shot and now it was 3-0. Daniel Zorita struck a weak shot in the 33rd minute. Cătălin Jdeica didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Ecuador. 35 minutes into the match, BlueLionesse's goalkeeper Cătălin Jdeica had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Daniel Zorita. Cristian Sancho received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 37th minute. Cătălin Jdeica tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Cătălin Jdeica was out of position in the 43 minute of play, and Daniel Zorita capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Daniel Zorita really showed his touch with that goal: 4-0. No-one was surprised that the home team were leading 4-0 at half-time.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Daniel Zorita stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. Cătălin Jdeica made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Felix Montenegro in the 51st minute of play. 53 minutes into the match, BlueLionesse's goal looked a bit too open when Cristian Sancho came free, but Cătălin Jdeica reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 54th minute Dacian Fetea shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Julio Vera saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 60 minutes into the match, Daniel Zorita notched a goal, 6-0, to the right of BlueLionesse's Cătălin Jdeica. Cătălin Jdeica was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. After a defensive mix-up in BlueLionesse's zone, Cristian Sancho stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Cătălin Jdeica came out of the goal and Cristian Sancho tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. In the 67th minute, Daniel Zorita got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. A collision led to BlueLionesse getting a freekick after 69 minutes play. Emanuel Greblă hit a great ball. Daniel Zorita took a chance and fired a shot far from the goal in the 70th minute, but it turned out to be a dangerous situation for Cătălin Jdeica. BlueLionesse's goalkeeper really had to stretch himself to stop the ball from crossing the goal line. Daniel Zorita fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 72nd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Cătălin Jdeica having to interfere. Cătălin Jdeica 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 74th minute. Cătălin Jdeica showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Cristian Sancho in the 78th minute of the match. Cătălin Jdeica took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cristian Sancho, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Valeriu Iuzbașa's late challenge caught a Ecuador's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Valeriu Iuzbașa helped the player get up and apologised. Valeriu Iuzbașa kicked well hit freekick during the 84th minute of the match. Cătălin Jdeica came out of the goal in the 85th minute to try and stop a shot by Ecuador's Felix Montenegro. But to his dismay, Felix Montenegro quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 7-0. BlueLionesse's Cătălin Jdeica played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Daniel Zorita in the 88th minute of play. After 89 minutes, Daniel Zorita mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Ecuador and the BlueLionesse players grew even worse after the yellow card. After 90 played minutes Ecuador got a freekick which was hit by Daniel Zorita. An unexpectedly hard shot by Dacian Fetea in the 91st minute of play forced Ecuador's goalkeeper Julio Vera to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. When Dacian Fetea came up free with the goalie in the 93rd minute, the BlueLionesse 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 Dacian Fetea couldn't finish the play. There was no doubt that Ecuador were the better team. Ecuador's players enjoyed the ovations of the crowd after the victory.