Challenge

Saliceto Panaro
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, 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. In the 3rd minute, Joel Gaona 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. After 4 minutes, Achille Di Cesare mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the LEBEG Team and the Mexico players grew even worse after the yellow card. Arrigo Talone took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Alberto Tafalla, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Mexico's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Joel Gaona in the 6th minute. Arrigo Talone made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Joel Gaona in the 11th minute of play. In the 12th minute Lautaro Mancebo shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Arrigo Talone saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 18th minute, Alberto Tafalla left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Mexico fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-1. Alberto Tafalla received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 24th minute. Arrigo Talone tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Alberto Tafalla recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 26th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. Alberto Tafalla fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 29th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Arrigo Talone having to interfere. In the 32nd minute, Luca Rouco ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Arrigo Talone was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-2. Mexico's Alberto Tafalla got a good chance for a goal in the 35th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Arrigo Talone made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Lautaro Mancebo in the 38th minute of play. After having played for 39 minutes, Joel Gaona managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Mexico's supporters crossed their fingers, but Joel Gaona was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. 40 minutes into the match, LEBEG Team's goal looked a bit too open when Lautaro Mancebo came free, but Arrigo Talone reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. After 42 minutes of play, Mexico's Joel Gaona made it 0-3 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Arrigo Talone was left in no man's land by his defense there! The referee gave Mexico a penalty, 46 minutes into the game. The penalty shot was made by Joel Gaona, who made a well placed shot into the net to the right of LEBEG Team's Arrigo Talone. 0-4.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Anthony Tonon to make the kick off. Lautaro Mancebo received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 51st minute. Arrigo Talone tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 53rd minute, Luca Zorita reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Arrigo Talone. The goal made the score 0-5. If Alberto Tafalla had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 57th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Arrigo Talone came out of the goal in the 59th 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 0-6. The crowd rose to their feet as Lautaro Mancebo kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Arrigo Talone. That made the score 0-7 in the 63 minute of play. Lautaro Mancebo could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 68th minute of the match, but Arrigo Talone made a huge save. Diego Mastrocola charged in rather forcefully in the 68th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Diego Mastrocola the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. After a rather tough play, LEBEG Team's Diego Mastrocola got a free kick in the 69th minute. Arrigo Talone made an important save on a dangerous shot by Alberto Tafalla in the 71st minute. Arrigo Talone made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Alberto Tafalla in the 73rd minute of play. Arrigo Talone was a little too slow when Alberto Tafalla got a fine hit on the ball which went right into the goal in the 76th minute. The score was now 0-8. In the 80th minute Mexico were awarded a corner. Joel Gaona went to the cornerflag to take it. The corner ended in Joel Gaona almost managing to get the ball behind the net, but LEBEG Team's Arrigo Talone did a great save. Lautaro Mancebo who was well placed in front of the goal fired away a dangerous shot that in the 83rdth minute tested the skills of Arrigo Talone when he managed to save the team from getting behind. 83 minutes into the match, Mexico's Joel Gaona sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Arrigo Talone narrowly saved just below the crossbar. 87 minutes into the game, Lautaro Mancebo cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-9. Arrigo Talone was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. Arrigo Talone didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Lautaro Mancebo went, in the 91st minute, to the upper right corner, 0-10 was the resulting score. When the final whistle sounded Mexico left the ground with the victory after a much better performance than LEBEG Team.