Challenge

Devils Playground
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Tomas Illescas started the match with the kick off. Zero Hedge's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Hans Nordström in the 6th minute. A nice corner shot did that Karl Lindström got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Jonathan Ferrant quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. After 10 played minutes Zero Hedge got a freekick which was hit by Gottfrid Stenman. In the 13th minute, Åke Jansson reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Jonathan Ferrant. The goal made the score 1-0. Bo-Erik Billberg's late challenge caught a Venezuela's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Bo-Erik Billberg helped the player get up and apologised. Tomas Illescas missed a clear chance of a goal when in the 22 minute of the game fired away a shot, but unfortunally the ball went out to the Wiktor Wallander right hand side. 24 minutes into the game, Zero Hedge's Åke Jansson nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Jonathan Ferrant made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 2-0. Hans Nordström kicked well hit freekick during the 26th minute of the match. Wiktor Wallander made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Patricio Costa in the 36th minute of play. In the 39th minute, Patricio Costa made a precise shot to the right of Wiktor Wallander. Zero Hedge's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 2-1. Åke Jansson sent away a hard shot on goal in the 47th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for 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 2-1.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Åke Jansson stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. Patricio Costa's late challenge caught a Zero Hedge's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Patricio Costa helped the player get up and apologised. In the 56th minute, Patricio Costa hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 58th match minute, Zero Hedge was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Bo-Erik Billberg to maneuver through the defense. An unexpectedly hard shot by Gottfrid Stenman in the 72nd minute of play forced Venezuela's goalkeeper Jonathan Ferrant to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The supporters of Venezuela booed when Zero Hedge was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 73 match minutes in a wonderful position. Gottfrid Stenman didn't get a good kick on the ball. Åke Jansson scored 3-1 in the 75th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Jonathan Ferrant, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Åke Jansson recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 79th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. Jonathan Ferrant showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Gottfrid Stenman in the 81st minute of the match. Tomas Illescas fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 82nd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Wiktor Wallander having to interfere. Zero Hedge's Gottfrid Stenman got a good chance for a goal in the 84th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. In the 87th minute Patricio Costa shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Wiktor Wallander saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. An unexpectedly hard shot by Åke Jansson in the 89th minute of play forced Venezuela's goalkeeper Jonathan Ferrant to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After some fancy dribbling in the 92nd minute, Åke Jansson managed to get in a good position for a shot. Zero Hedge's supporters rose to their feet, but Åke Jansson was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Jonathan Ferrant breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick.