Challenge

Estadio Nacional
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) The field was rather wet after several days of rain when Julian Murillo took the kick off in the first half of the match. Stone City's Dragomir Marchovski played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Eliseo Mina in the 5th minute of play. Rolando Noboa took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Ulises Curcio, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Through an outstanding action, after 10 minutes, Dragomir Marchovski successfully got his hands on the ball before it slid into the goal at the right post. In the 12thth minute of the game Pavel Balc who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Peru's Rolando Noboa was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. In the 19th minute Julian Murillo shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Dragomir Marchovski saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Dragomir Marchovski showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Luz Tejedor in the 21st minute of the match. In the 22nd minute, Pavel Balc ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Rolando Noboa was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-1. 27 minutes into the match, Pavel Balc notched a goal, 0-2, to the right of Peru's Rolando Noboa. Rolando Noboa was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. In the 31st minute, Amanda Ingesson hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Luz Tejedor might have been able to make a better finish in the 33rd minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Dragomir Marchovski. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Luz Tejedor ran back to his position shaking his head. Rolando Noboa made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Derek Yu in the 40th minute of play. Laureano Herrera made in the 46th minute of the game a fairly good throw-in which was taken care of by Mai Yi Xu.

Luz Tejedor fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 52nd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Dragomir Marchovski having to interfere. Peru's Rolando Noboa played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Pavel Balc in the 54th minute of play. Peru's Alonso Berganza managed, thanks to a brazen rush, stole the ball on a throw-in made by Laureano Herrera in the 56 minute of the game. An unexpectedly hard shot by Pavel Balc in the 63rd minute of play forced Peru's goalkeeper Rolando Noboa to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Julian Murillo hit a great freekick 66 minutes into the match. Dragomir Marchovski took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Luz Tejedor, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Eliseo Mina made a great header on Peru's corner, it was just that Stone City's Dragomir Marchovski managed to reach the ball for a save. 76 minutes into the match, Stone City's goal looked a bit too open when Milagros Fraga came free, but Dragomir Marchovski reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Peru were awarded a corner in the 77th minute after Stone City's defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. Luz Tejedor took the corner. A nice corner shot did that Milagros Fraga got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Dragomir Marchovski quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. In the 79th minute of the match Peru got a corner. Stone City's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Luz Tejedor ran over to the corner to take the kick. After taking down the ball on Peru's corner Joaquin Prats fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Dragomir Marchovski quite easily take care of the ball. 83 minutes into the match, Julian Murillo had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Dragomir Marchovski. Stone City's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Julian Murillo was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 1-2. Peru's Antonio Tenorio was substituted for Luz Tejedor. The supporters of Peru booed when Stone City was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 89 match minutes in a wonderful position. Mai Yi Xu didn't get a good kick on the ball. Peru were awarded a corner in the 91th minute after Stone City's defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. Eliseo Mina took the corner. After 91 played minutes Peru got a freekick which was hit by Emmanuel Reyes. Turgut Kocak hit a great freekick 94 minutes into the match. When the referee blew the final whistle jeers and boos were heard from the home team's supporters. They were angered to see Peru lose a match they had controlled from the kick-off.