Challenge

Mirabela
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) In the 4th minute, João Pedro Nogueira hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. José Paulo Romero showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Cristian Sancho, who was totally free with the ball in the 6th minute. A collision led to ≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™ getting a freekick after 8 minutes play. Elano Rezende hit a great ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Manuel Negri in the 12th minute of play forced Ecuador's goalkeeper Julio Vera to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 13th minute of the match ≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™ got a corner. Ecuador's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Elano Rezende ran over to the corner to take the kick. 15 minutes into the match, Daniel Zorita had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of José Paulo Romero. ≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™'s manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Daniel Zorita was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-1. Luiz Soeiro sent away a hard shot on goal in the 18th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. 20 minutes into the match, Felix Montenegro notched a goal, 0-2, to the right of ≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™'s José Paulo Romero. José Paulo Romero was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. José Paulo Romero showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Cristian Sancho in the 23rd minute of the match. In the 28th minute Daniel Zorita shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but José Paulo Romero saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. After 28 minutes of play, Ecuador's Daniel Zorita made it 0-3 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. José Paulo Romero was left in no man's land by his defense there! Julio Vera made a fantastic save in the 32nd minute, when Luiz Soeiro sent off a good shot on target. An unexpectedly hard shot by Cristian Sancho in the 34th minute of play forced ≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™'s goalkeeper José Paulo Romero to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 40th match minute, ≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™ was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by João Pedro Nogueira to maneuver through the defense. Luiz Soeiro succeeded to score despite a near miss that spronge from right pole into the goal to 2-3 in the 45th playminute. After the first half Ecuador were leading 2-3. They had played with great self confidence throughout the first half and fully deserved their lead.

≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™'s Baltazar Schmidt was substituted for Antônio Carlos da Fonseca. Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Daniel Zorita to make the kick off. 53 minutes into the match, Ecuador's goal looked a bit too open when Váldson Urbano came free, but Julio Vera reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. José Paulo Romero made a fantastic save in the 55th minute, when Felix Montenegro sent off a good shot on target. Julio Vera made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Marcelinho Costa in the 58th minute of play. Juan Sebastián Puig charged in rather forcefully in the 60th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Juan Sebastián Puig the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. Juan Sebastián Puig hit a great freekick 60 minutes into the match. 61 minutes into the match, Marcelinho Costa had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Julio Vera. Ecuador's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Marcelinho Costa was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 3-3. An unexpectedly hard shot by Váldson Urbano in the 65th minute of play forced Ecuador's goalkeeper Julio Vera to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. An unexpected shot in the 66th minute by Daniel Zorita got the crowd on their feet, but to their dismay it went out on the left side. In the 70th minute, Marcelinho Costa left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The ≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™ fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 4-3. Julio Vera showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Váldson Urbano, who was totally free with the ball in the 74th minute. After 76 minutes Ecuador's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Elano Rezende who took care of the corner kick. It was a well-played corner which Agnaldo Araújo managed to volley towards the net. Unfortunately, he didn't get a great hit on the ball and it went out into the grandstand. In the 79thth minute of the game Marcelinho Costa who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Ecuador's Julio Vera was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Daniel Zorita's shot when he came free in front of the goal in the 80thth minute, José Paulo Romero skillfully showed off with a save to what seemed to be an obvious goal. After 85 played minutes ≈SΞVĺЯΔ FC™ got a freekick which was hit by Pedro Luiz de Senna. Luizão Proença hit a great freekick 96 minutes into the match.