Challenge

Estadio Nacional
Spectators: 47 (Terracing: 36, Seating: 11, VIP seats: 0) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Florencio Herbella got the match started through his kick off. After 3 minutes of play, Atletico Maturrango's Florencio Herbella made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Ricardo Zorita was left in no man's land by his defense there! After 7 minutes, Moises Fernandino mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the El Salvador and the Atletico Maturrango players grew even worse after the yellow card. Lucas Sardaneta struck a weak shot in the 11th minute. Ricardo Zorita didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Atletico Maturrango. 14 minutes into the game, Atletico Maturrango's Florencio Herbella nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Ricardo Zorita made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 0-2. A collision led to El Salvador getting a freekick after 16 minutes play. Abram Luque hit a great ball. Ricardo Zorita showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Florencio Herbella in the 17th minute of the match. In the 19th minute, Florencio Herbella ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Ricardo Zorita was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-3. After a rather tough play, El Salvador's Joshua Curbelo got a free kick in the 22nd minute. Ricardo Zorita didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Florencio Herbella went, in the 23rd minute, to the upper right corner, 0-4 was the resulting score. Ricardo Zorita showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Florencio Herbella, who was totally free with the ball in the 34th minute. After a rather tough play, El Salvador's Joshua Curbelo got a free kick in the 35th minute. After 39 minutes of play, the referee blew the whistle. It was a penalty for El Salvador! In the 41st minute there was a penalty for Atletico Maturrango. Xizavier Varona stepped forward and shot the ball to the right of a diving Ricardo Zorita. 0-6. Florencio Herbella's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but Ricardo Zorita read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 44th minute of play. Ricardo Zorita showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Florencio Herbella in the 47th minute of the match. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 0-6.

Ricardo Zorita came out of the goal in the 54th minute to try and stop a shot by Atletico Maturrango's Florencio Herbella. But to his dismay, Florencio Herbella quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 0-7. El Salvador's Ricardo Zorita played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Florencio Herbella in the 58th minute of play. Florencio Herbella blasted a shot towards the goal in the 61st minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Ricardo Zorita having to make a save. 61 minutes into the match, El Salvador's goal looked a bit too open when Florencio Herbella came free, but Ricardo Zorita reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 62nd minute, Moises Fernandino hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 62 minutes into the match, Florencio Herbella had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Ricardo Zorita. El Salvador's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Florencio Herbella was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-8. Atletico Maturrango's Orlin Hinojosa was substituted for Lucas Sardaneta. Michael Gavito made in the 67th minute of the game a fairly good throw-in which was taken care of by Caton Oquendo. In the 69th minute, Atletico Maturrango's Ederono Ojero ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind Ricardo Zorita. Ricardo Zorita yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 0-9. In the 72nd minute the ball was on its way in behind El Salvador's goalkeeper Ricardo Zorita, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. Atletico Maturrango's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Hitzeder Serans in the 73rd minute. After taking down the ball on Atletico Maturrango's corner Marcial Zuazna fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Ricardo Zorita quite easily take care of the ball. Ederono Ojero struck a weak shot in the 76th minute. Ricardo Zorita didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for Atletico Maturrango. Ricardo Zorita made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Ederono Ojero in the 78th minute of play. After some careless play in the El Salvador defense, Ederono Ojero kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Ricardo Zorita. The El Salvador fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Ricardo Zorita should have stopped the shot. El Salvador's defense didn't have a chance, in the 88th minute, when Ederono Ojero scored to the left of an out of position Ricardo Zorita, making the score, 0-11. 91 minutes into the match, Ederono Ojero notched a goal, 0-12, to the right of El Salvador's Ricardo Zorita. Ricardo Zorita was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it.