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Espigão Steamrollers
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) In the 3rd minute, Roneixon Siqueira reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Marco Day. The goal made the score 1-0. After a rather tough play, Espigão Steamrollers's Leandro Gil got a free kick in the 6th minute. Gonçalo de Medeiros showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Monty Rogers in the 7th minute of the match. A collision led to USA getting a freekick after 11 minutes play. Jacob May hit a great ball. Roneixon Siqueira blasted a shot towards the goal in the 15th minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Marco Day having to make a save. The crowd rose to their feet as Roneixon Siqueira kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Marco Day. That made the score 2-0 in the 18 minute of play. In the 25th minute, one of Espigão Steamrollers:s players had the ball in front of the goal but got pushed and fell. The referee felt it was an obvious case and blew a penalty for Espigão Steamrollers. The referee gave USA a penalty, 26 minutes into the game. The penalty shot was made by Cassius Byrne, who made a well placed shot into the net to the right of Espigão Steamrollers's Gonçalo de Medeiros. 2-1. The audience was convinced that Cassius Byrne's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Gonçalo de Medeiros was relentless in the 38th minute of the game. Gonçalo de Medeiros took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cassius Byrne, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the 44th match minute, USA was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Jacob May to maneuver through the defense. Af the end of the first half the score was 2-1. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

Espigão Steamrollers's Ulisses Carioca was substituted for Walmyr Meira. The supporters of USA booed when Espigão Steamrollers was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 54 match minutes in a wonderful position. 柳远桑 didn't get a good kick on the ball. 58 minutes into the match, USA's goal looked a bit too open when Roneixon Siqueira came free, but Marco Day reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 59th minute, Monty Rogers 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. Espigão Steamrollers's Gonçalo de Medeiros proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 61st minute of the match, managed to save Espigão Steamrollers from getting a goal against them. Espigão Steamrollers's Yuri Paranaense was substituted for Roneixon Siqueira. Espigão Steamrollers's Naldo Peres was substituted for 柳远桑. Espigão Steamrollers's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Kara Bhattacharya in the 69th minute. Gonçalo de Medeiros showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Monty Rogers in the 71st minute of the match. After 72 minutes Espigão Steamrollers's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Monty Rogers who took care of the corner kick. A nice corner shot did that Monty Rogers got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Gonçalo de Medeiros quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. In the 74th minute Monty Rogers shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Gonçalo de Medeiros saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Espigão Steamrollers's Yuri Paranaense got a good chance for a goal in the 77th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. USA made a substitution. Khalid Parry replaced Monty Rogers. USA's Marco Baker was substituted for Edward Mcdonald. In the 81st minute of the match Espigão Steamrollers got a corner. USA's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Kara Bhattacharya ran over to the corner to take the kick. An unexpectedly hard shot by Marco Baker in the 85th minute of play forced Espigão Steamrollers's goalkeeper Gonçalo de Medeiros to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The crowd rose to their feet as Khalid Parry kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Gonçalo de Medeiros. That made the score 2-2 in the 88 minute of play. In the 92nd minute USA were awarded a corner. Jenson Smith went to the cornerflag to take it. Despite being the better team, USA failed to find the winning goal and were forced to settle for a single point.