Challenge

Old Trafford
Spectators: 50 (Terracing: 38, Seating: 11, VIP seats: 1) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Cassius Byrne got the match started through his kick off.  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's Alexander Manninger played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Edward Mcdonald in the 5th minute of play. Filipe Silva had several of the USA's defenders around him in the penalty area when he, after 7 minutes of play, received a pass and succeeded in some way to shoot a shot which went straight ahead into goal. This resulted in a 1-0 score and a disappointed Marco Day as he didn't even see the shot coming. An unexpectedly hard shot by Monty Rogers in the 11th minute of play forced  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's goalkeeper Alexander Manninger to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Alexander Manninger took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cassius Byrne, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Alexander Manninger came out of the goal in the 16th minute to try and stop a shot by USA's Monty Rogers. But to his dismay, Monty Rogers quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 1-2. Marco Day showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Danny Farmer in the 20th minute of the match. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Cassius Byrne in the 22nd managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Alexander Manninger saved  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United from getting behind. 23 minutes had been played when some careless play by  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Cassius Byrne was slow to take the kick. During this time USA's players had a chance to rest. Alexander Manninger took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Edward Mcdonald, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. USA's Marco Day played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Stuart Legzdins in the 31st minute of play. 32 minutes into the match,  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's goal looked a bit too open when Monty Rogers came free, but Alexander Manninger reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Alexander Manninger showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Monty Rogers in the 34th minute of the match. In the 35thth minute of the game Cassius Byrne who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's Alexander Manninger was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. In the 36th minute, Stuart Legzdins got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. After 37 played minutes  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United got a freekick which was hit by Danny Farmer. 40 minutes into the match, Edward Mcdonald notched a goal, 1-3, to the right of  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's Alexander Manninger. Alexander Manninger was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Raphael Moore charged in rather forcefully in the 47th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Raphael Moore the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. In the 47th minute, Raphael Moore hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After the first half USA were leading 1-3. They had played with great self confidence throughout the first half and fully deserved their lead.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Stuart Legzdins to make the kick off. An unexpectedly hard shot by Edward Mcdonald in the 51st minute of play forced  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's goalkeeper Alexander Manninger to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 53rd minute Monty Rogers shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Alexander Manninger saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Marco Day took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Stuart Legzdins, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. 60 minutes into the match, Stuart Legzdins notched a goal, 2-3, to the right of USA's Marco Day. Marco Day was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. In the 63rd minute Monty Rogers shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Alexander Manninger saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. USA's Marco Day played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Filipe Silva in the 65th minute of play. 66 minutes into the match,  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's goal looked a bit too open when Monty Rogers came free, but Alexander Manninger reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. 67 minutes into the match,  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's goalkeeper Alexander Manninger had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Cassius Byrne. The supporters of  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United booed when USA was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 70 match minutes in a wonderful position. Zach Harrison didn't get a good kick on the ball. Zach Harrison hit a great freekick 72 minutes into the match. In the 73rd minute of the match Danny Farmer sent off a long shot with destination to the right of the goalkeeper, but Marco Day skillfully saved the ball. If Filipe Silva had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 77th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead.  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's Tomás Shelby was substituted for Kaká Senna. In the 81st minute Khalid Parry shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Alexander Manninger saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Khalid Parry fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 83rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Alexander Manninger having to interfere. An unexpectedly hard shot by Filipe Silva in the 87th minute of play forced USA's goalkeeper Marco Day to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United fans' excitement grew in the 87th match minute when  ☆冰谷☆Manchester United's Filipe Silva looked to have a clear shot with the ball near the goal. The shot wasn't hard, but the ball still rolled over the goal line to make it 3-3 before the goalkeeper had a chance to intervene. When the match had gone on for 90 minutes, Khalid Parry took a quick shot and it went in 3-4 without a chance for Alexander Manninger to make any attempt to save it. The audience thought a goal was coming when Sam Campbell got free with Alexander Manninger in the 94th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Alexander Manninger made a fantastic save in the 94th minute, when Sam Campbell sent off a good shot on target.