Challenge

MRT Stadion
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Ziemowit Filipkowski started the match with the kick off. Hector Covarrubias hit a great freekick 4 minutes into the match. 6 minutes in the game, Ziemowit Filipkowski fired away an excellent shot, which passed to the side of the right post without Jacobo Nores having to interfere. Juliusz Barycz didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Jaime Pardo went, in the 13th minute, to the upper right corner, 0-1 was the resulting score. Juliusz Barycz came out of the goal in the 19th minute to try and stop a shot by Paraguay's Jaime Pardo. But to his dismay, Jaime Pardo quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 0-2. 35 minutes into the match, FC Graal's goal looked a bit too open when Jaime Pardo came free, but Juliusz Barycz reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. The supporters of Paraguay booed when FC Graal was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 37 match minutes in a wonderful position. Norbert Miarka didn't get a good kick on the ball. Jacobo Nores made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Ziemowit Filipkowski in the 39th minute of play. Norbert Miarka received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Jacobo Nores came out and tried to block the shot, but Norbert Miarka slotted it home off the left post making it 1-2 in the 46th minute. Even after changing tactics the home team jogged off the field with a 1-2 deficit. They would have to work harder if they wanted to turn things around in the second half.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Jaime Pardo stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. The referee was alert and spotted a serious foul by Norbert Miarka during the 58th minute. The player immediately received a yellow card. In the 59thth minute of the game Jaime Pardo who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but FC Graal's Juliusz Barycz was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. When the match had gone on for 61 minutes, Ziemowit Filipkowski put it in 2-2 from a short distance just to the right of Jacobo Nores. An unexpectedly hard shot by Hector Covarrubias in the 69th minute of play forced FC Graal's goalkeeper Juliusz Barycz to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Jacobo Nores made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Ziemowit Filipkowski in the 72nd minute of play. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Ziemowit Filipkowski in the 74th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Jacobo Nores saved Paraguay from getting behind. Jacobo Nores showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Ziemowit Filipkowski, who was totally free with the ball in the 79th minute. In the 85th minute, Roch Slazak ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Jacobo Nores was frozen by the shot and now it was 3-2. FC Graal's Norbert Miarka got his second yellow card of the match in the 88th minute. The referee ordered Norbert Miarka off the ground. After 89 played minutes FC Graal got a freekick which was hit by Norbert Miarka. Paraguay's supporters were dissatisfied at the end of the match because FC Graal had won, even though Paraguay had held more of the ball.