Challenge

Darcy Ribeiro
Spectators: 42 (Terracing: 32, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) The field was rather wet after several days of rain when Joel Gaona took the kick off in the first half of the match. Fernando Donatello took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Lautaro Mancebo, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the 4th minute Mexico were awarded a corner. Joel Gaona went to the cornerflag to take it. Fernando Donatello made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Lautaro Mancebo in the 7th minute of play. The audience was convinced that Lautaro Mancebo's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Fernando Donatello was relentless in the 8th minute of the game. After 10 minutes of play, Mexico's Alberto Tafalla made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Fernando Donatello was left in no man's land by his defense there! 16 minutes into the match, Mexico's Alberto Tafalla sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Fernando Donatello narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Fernando Donatello showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Joel Gaona in the 18th minute of the match. Alberto Tafalla received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 19th minute. Fernando Donatello tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 23rd match minute, Mexico was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Alberto Tafalla to maneuver through the defense. In the 25th match minute, Clube Audax Metropolitano was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Ernani Corrêa to maneuver through the defense. Fernando Donatello didn't succeed to prevent the ball from going into goal when Mexico's Joel Gaona shot an unexpected shot in the crossbar's under edge and made 0-2 in the ordered_time% minute. Fernando Donatello showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Alberto Tafalla in the 30th minute of the match. Mexico's Dante Lacasa played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Alix Vance in the 31st minute of play. If Alberto Tafalla had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 34th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Fernando Donatello made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Lautaro Mancebo in the 39th minute of play. If Miguel Fontes had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 41st minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Fernando Donatello came out of the goal in the 43rd minute to try and stop a shot by Mexico's Lautaro Mancebo. But to his dismay, Lautaro Mancebo quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 0-3. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-3 lead.

The wind increased when Alix Vance made the kick off in the second half. If Alberto Tafalla had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 52nd minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. After some fancy dribbling in the 55th minute, Lautaro Mancebo managed to get in a good position for a shot. Mexico's supporters rose to their feet, but Lautaro Mancebo was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Fernando Donatello breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. In the 58th minute of the match Mexico got a corner. Clube Audax Metropolitano's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Joel Gaona ran over to the corner to take the kick. The corner ended in Joel Gaona almost managing to get the ball behind the net, but Clube Audax Metropolitano's Fernando Donatello did a great save. Fernando Donatello was out of position in the 67 minute of play, and Lautaro Mancebo capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Lautaro Mancebo really showed his touch with that goal: 0-5. When the match clock showed 70 minutes, the score became 0-6 when Joel Gaona sped through Clube Audax Metropolitano's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Fernando Donatello. 73 minutes into the game, Lautaro Mancebo lined in a short shot 0-7 behind a frustrated Fernando Donatello. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Joel Gaona in the 79th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Fernando Donatello saved Clube Audax Metropolitano from getting behind. If Lautaro Mancebo had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 80th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. 83 minutes into the game, Alberto Tafalla cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-8. Fernando Donatello was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. Dante Lacasa didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Hugo Calderona went, in the 86th minute, to the upper right corner, 1-8 was the resulting score. Lautaro Mancebo recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 89th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. After a rather tough play, Clube Audax Metropolitano's Wiliam Martins got a free kick in the 94th minute. When the final whistle sounded Mexico left the ground with the victory after a much better performance than Clube Audax Metropolitano.