Challenge

Est Rommel Fernández
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Tomas Berganza started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. After 2 minutes, Abraham Alguacil mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Panama and the White StarZ players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 2nd match minute, Panama was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Abraham Alguacil to maneuver through the defense. An unexpectedly hard shot by Fausto Bertol in the 4th minute of play forced Panama's goalkeeper Marcos Cotilla to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After 7 minutes, Fausto Bertol made it 0-1 with a short kick to the right side. Panama's Marcos Cotilla tried to save the shot but he was too slow in reacting to the shot. After 10 minutes of play, White StarZ's Ernst Vestlund made it 0-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Marcos Cotilla was left in no man's land by his defense there! The crowd rose to their feet as Panama's Miguel Miralles slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Gonçalo Vides. That made the score 1-3 after 18 minutes of play. Marcos Cotilla showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Ernst Vestlund in the 22nd minute of the match. In the 28th minute, Miguel Miralles hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Panama's Abraham Alguacil shoveled away a really nice long shot in the 30th minute of play. The shot was stopped by Gonçalo Vides but with some difficulty. After 43 played minutes White StarZ got a freekick which was hit by Inocencio Nazario. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 1-3.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Ernst Vestlund to make the kick off. In the 55th minute, White StarZ's Fausto Bertol ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind Marcos Cotilla. Marcos Cotilla yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 1-4. Marcos Cotilla didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Ernst Vestlund went, in the 58th minute, to the upper right corner, 1-5 was the resulting score. In the 62nd match minute, White StarZ was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Jorge Frans to maneuver through the defense. 72 minutes into the match, Panama's goalkeeper Marcos Cotilla had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Ernst Vestlund. Isidoro Sarmiento sent away a hard shot on goal in the 82nd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. White StarZ made a substitution. Kosin Marianto replaced Fausto Bertol. An unexpectedly hard shot by Isidoro Sarmiento in the 87th minute of play forced White StarZ's goalkeeper Gonçalo Vides to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Ernst Vestlund received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Marcos Cotilla came out and tried to block the shot, but Ernst Vestlund slotted it home off the left post making it 1-6 in the 89th minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Abraham Alguacil in the 96th minute of play forced White StarZ's goalkeeper Gonçalo Vides to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. White StarZ played a much better game than Panama and deserved their victory. The Panama players were clearly disappointed as they left the ground.