Challenge

RFK Stadium
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Santiago Abreu got the match started through his kick off. 7 minutes into the match, Celestiales's Florin Simuţ sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Marco Day narrowly saved just below the crossbar. In the 9th minute, Edward Mcdonald fired away a shot on goal. He put a little to much spin on the ball and sent it just wide of the right post. In the 11thth minute of the game Santiago Abreu who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but USA's Marco Day was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. USA's Marco Day played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Florin Simuţ in the 14th minute of play. After a defensive mix-up in Celestiales's zone, Monty Rogers stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Iker Madrid came out of the goal and Monty Rogers tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Marco Day showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Albano Millan in the 19th minute of the match. An unexpectedly hard shot by Jiang Sha in the 21st minute of play forced USA's goalkeeper Marco Day to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 21st minute, Jiang Sha left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Celestiales fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-1. An unexpectedly hard shot by Jiang Sha in the 24th minute of play forced USA's goalkeeper Marco Day to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Marco Day made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Jose Bero in the 38th minute of play. After a defensive mix-up in Celestiales's zone, Edward Mcdonald stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Iker Madrid came out of the goal and Edward Mcdonald tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Iker Madrid showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Cassius Byrne in the 45th minute of the match. After the first half Celestiales were leading 0-1. They had played with great self confidence throughout the first half and fully deserved their lead.

The wind increased when Cassius Byrne made the kick off in the second half. Celestiales's Iker Madrid played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Edward Mcdonald in the 52nd minute of play. The supporters of USA booed when Celestiales was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 53 match minutes in a wonderful position. Albano Millan didn't get a good kick on the ball. In the 55th minute Cassius Byrne shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Iker Madrid saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Monty Rogers scored 1-1 in the 60th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Iker Madrid, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Iker Madrid took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cassius Byrne, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. USA made a substitution. Sam Campbell replaced Cassius Byrne. Celestiales's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Jiang Sha in the 67th minute. A well-hit corner resulted in Albano Millan heading the ball towards the goal, but to his dismay he misdirected it and missed the goal completely. If Eustaquio Eudoxio had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 69th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Monty Rogers received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 73rd minute. Iker Madrid tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Marco Day made a fantastic save in the 77th minute, when Eustaquio Eudoxio sent off a good shot on target. USA's Khalid Parry was substituted for Monty Rogers. After 86 minutes Celestiales's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Jenson Smith who took care of the corner kick. A well-hit corner resulted in Diego Bradley heading the ball towards the goal, but to his dismay he misdirected it and missed the goal completely. In the 89th minute Sam Campbell shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Iker Madrid saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Jiang Sha kicked well hit freekick during the 91st minute of the match. Iker Madrid showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Khalid Parry, who was totally free with the ball in the 93rd minute.