Challenge

Santiago de Baradero
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Abram Sarmiento started the match with the kick off. 3 minutes in the game, Eustaquio Aguilera fired away an excellent shot, which passed to the side of the right post without Pedro Manzanares having to interfere. After some careless play in the Colombia defense, Mario Goren kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Pedro Manzanares. The Colombia fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Pedro Manzanares should have stopped the shot. Simon Atarratze received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 6th minute. Pedro Manzanares tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. 12 minutes into the game, Colombia's Axel Montenegro nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Zachary Falkiewicz made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 1-1. Zachary Falkiewicz showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Kevin Mastache in the 16th minute of the match. After 16 minutes of play, Colombia's Kevin Mastache made it 1-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Zachary Falkiewicz was left in no man's land by his defense there! Pedro Manzanares showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Eustaquio Aguilera in the 18th minute of the match. Pedro Manzanares came out of the goal in the 20th minute to try and stop a shot by Real Fénix FC's Eustaquio Aguilera. But to his dismay, Eustaquio Aguilera quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 2-2. Pedro Manzanares didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Eustaquio Aguilera went, in the 22nd minute, to the upper right corner, 3-2 was the resulting score. Colombia's Pedro Manzanares played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Eustaquio Aguilera in the 27th minute of play. 27 minutes into the match, Eustaquio Aguilera notched a goal, 4-2, to the right of Colombia's Pedro Manzanares. Pedro Manzanares was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Zachary Falkiewicz made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Kevin Mastache in the 33rd minute of play. Eustaquio Aguilera scored 6-2 in the 35th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Pedro Manzanares, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. When Real Fénix FC's Mario Goren in the 40th minute got a chance for a shot 40th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye Colombia's goalie prevented a goal. The away team players looked dejected as the walked off the pitch at half time. They had fought hard, but were still losing 6-2.

After some fancy dribbling in the 52nd minute, Eustaquio Aguilera managed to get in a good position for a shot. Real Fénix FC's supporters rose to their feet, but Eustaquio Aguilera was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Pedro Manzanares breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Pedro Manzanares made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Eustaquio Aguilera in the 53rd minute of play. An unexpectedly hard shot by Eustaquio Aguilera in the 60th minute of play forced Colombia's goalkeeper Pedro Manzanares to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 61 minutes into the match, Real Fénix FC's goalkeeper Zachary Falkiewicz had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Pascual Carballar. After 62 played minutes Colombia got a freekick which was hit by Santino Seco. Pedro Manzanares made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Mario Goren in the 62nd minute of play. Pedro Manzanares came out of the goal in the 62nd minute to try and stop a shot by Real Fénix FC's Mario Goren. But to his dismay, Mario Goren quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 7-2. In the 65th match minute, Colombia was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Kevin Mastache to maneuver through the defense. The supporters of Real Fénix FC booed when Colombia was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 67 match minutes in a wonderful position. Kevin Mastache didn't get a good kick on the ball. Pedro Manzanares made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Eustaquio Aguilera in the 68th minute of play. In the 76th minute Ignacio Mastache shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Zachary Falkiewicz saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Eustaquio Aguilera sent away a hard shot on goal in the 77th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Zachary Falkiewicz made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Ignacio Mastache in the 81st minute of play. Zachary Falkiewicz showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Abram Secada in the 82nd minute of the match. 84 minutes into the match, Real Fénix FC's goalkeeper Zachary Falkiewicz had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Kevin Mastache. A sloppy throw-in by Almir de Barros in the 88th minute of the game went astray and was snapped up by Colombia's Pascual Carballar. Through an outstanding action, after 91 minutes, Zachary Falkiewicz successfully got his hands on the ball before it slid into the goal at the right post. 92 minutes into the game, Colombia's Ignacio Mastache nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Zachary Falkiewicz made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 7-3. Real Fénix FC's Gonza Ünder was substituted for Florentino Dalmu. The referee blew his whistle, and the match came to a close. The players exchanged shirts and headed down the tunnel. The Real Fénix FC fans cheered their team off the field, for while Colombia had put up a good fight, they were unable to come out of the game with any points to show for their effort.