Challenge

Queen Arena
Spectators: 42 (Terracing: 32, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) In the 6th minute, Victor Piţurcă 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 10 minutes, Gabriel Mălaimare mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Emerald and the Ecuador players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 10th minute of the match Daniel Zorita shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Bogdan Lobonț showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. Daniel Zorita sent away a hard shot on goal in the 12th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Julio Vera made a fantastic save in the 15th minute, when Victor Piţurcă sent off a good shot on target. An unexpectedly hard shot by Cristian Sancho in the 16th minute of play forced Emerald's goalkeeper Bogdan Lobonț to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 21st minute, Emerald's Victor Piţurcă dribbled the ball into the box and hit a shot with the outside of his foot, sending the keeper the wrong way. 1-0. In the 24th minute Daniel Zorita shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Bogdan Lobonț saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Victor Piţurcă received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Julio Vera came out and tried to block the shot, but Victor Piţurcă slotted it home off the left post making it 2-0 in the 25th minute. Felix Montenegro fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 41st minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Bogdan Lobonț having to interfere. Hurşit Cemşit charged in rather forcefully in the 44th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Hurşit Cemşit the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. After a rather tough play, Emerald's Hurşit Cemşit got a free kick in the 44th minute. The away team players looked dejected as the walked off the pitch at half time. They had fought hard, but were still losing 2-1.

Emerald made a substitution. Ioan Logofătu replaced Julio Iglesias. 57 minutes into the match, Emerald's goalkeeper Bogdan Lobonț had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Cristian Sancho. Julio Vera showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Victor Piţurcă in the 63rd minute of the match. Julio Vera showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Victor Piţurcă in the 65th minute of the match. Bogdan Lobonț made a fantastic save in the 69th minute, when Daniel Zorita sent off a good shot on target. In the 81st minute of the match, Daniel Zorita got a very nice opportunity to score, but Bogdan Lobonț was well-placed and pushed the ball away from the goal at the left post. Ecuador's Agustín Saelices was first on the ball when the corner was shot and he dangerously headed the ball towards goal, but Bogdan Lobonț in the goal jumped up to prevent it from getting in. In the 89th minute, Gabriel Vermeşan hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 95th match minute, Ecuador was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Camilo Gisbert to maneuver through the defense. When the final whistle sounded Ecuador left the ground with the victory after a much better performance than Emerald.