Challenge

Santiago Bernabéu
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Alfred Nikodemski made the kick off which started today's match. The supporters of Mexico booed when club⚽ID⚽400547 was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 5 match minutes in a wonderful position. Xabi Alonso didn't get a good kick on the ball. Lautaro Mancebo received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 9th minute. Peter-Stefan Schmeichel tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Dante Lacasa showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Diego Armando Maradona in the 11th minute of the match. After a rather tough play, Mexico's Macos Graciani got a free kick in the 13th minute. club⚽ID⚽400547's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Konstanty Kaczucha in the 15th minute. 20 minutes into the match, club⚽ID⚽400547's goal looked a bit too open when Lautaro Mancebo came free, but Peter-Stefan Schmeichel reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 22nd 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. 29 minutes into the game, Joel Gaona cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-2. Peter-Stefan Schmeichel was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. The throw-in from Leonardo Leoz in the 34th minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by club⚽ID⚽400547's Edgar Rzeszutek. The referee blew the whistle for a penalty in the 35th minute of the game. One of club⚽ID⚽400547:s players had nearly got his shirt torn off by an opponent while getting free in front of Mexico:s goal. club⚽ID⚽400547's Peter-Stefan Schmeichel played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Alberto Tafalla in the 40th minute of play. Lautaro Mancebo sent away a hard shot on goal in the 42nd minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Mexico's Alberto Tafalla got a good chance for a goal in the 45th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. A collision led to club⚽ID⚽400547 getting a freekick after 47 minutes play. Fryderyk Buda hit a great ball. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-3 lead.

If Luca Zorita had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 52nd minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. 59 minutes into the match, Diego Armando Maradona had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Dante Lacasa. Mexico's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Diego Armando Maradona was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 1-3. Edgar Rzeszutek's late challenge caught a Mexico's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Edgar Rzeszutek helped the player get up and apologised. In the 62nd minute, Edgar Rzeszutek hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After 66 played minutes club⚽ID⚽400547 got a freekick which was hit by Diego Armando Maradona. Alberto Tafalla's shot straight on target was not completely harmless. The ball had pretty good speed, but Peter-Stefan Schmeichel firmly grabbed it by the left post. 68 minutes had been played when some careless play by club⚽ID⚽400547's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Joel Gaona was slow to take the kick. During this time Mexico's players had a chance to rest. The corner led Mexico's Facundo Cadaval to fire away a dangerous shot which Peter-Stefan Schmeichel despite some difficulties managed to get hold on the ball. The audience thought a goal was coming when Alberto Tafalla got free with Peter-Stefan Schmeichel in the 70th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. In the 74th minute, Felix Luque hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. club⚽ID⚽400547's Juliusz Cezar was substituted for Edgar Rzeszutek. Alberto Tafallas short, quick shot in the 80thth minute got Peter-Stefan Schmeichel to make great effort and bar the ball away from getting in. 81 minutes had been played when some careless play by club⚽ID⚽400547's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Joel Gaona was slow to take the kick. During this time Mexico's players had a chance to rest. Alberto Tafalla sent away a hard shot on goal in the 85th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance.