Challenge

Morena Garden
Spectators: 50 (Terracing: 38, Seating: 11, VIP seats: 1) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Abram Sarmiento started the match with the kick off. After a rather tough play, AC Morena's Yazid Guinaudeau got a free kick in the 4th minute. AC Morena's Dražen Ladić played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Kevin Mastache in the 5th minute of play. In the 7th minute Abram Sarmiento shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Dražen Ladić saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Aquiles Gana succeeded to score despite a near miss that spronge from right pole into the goal to 1-0 in the 8th playminute. Dražen Ladić showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Axel Montenegro, who was totally free with the ball in the 18th minute. After some careless play in the AC Morena defense, Kevin Mastache kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Dražen Ladić. The AC Morena fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Dražen Ladić should have stopped the shot. 23 minutes into the game, Abram Sarmiento cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 1-2. Dražen Ladić was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. In the 27th minute of the match AC Morena got a corner. Colombia's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Aldo Di Biagio ran over to the corner to take the kick. Cristoforo Labate made a great header on AC Morena's corner, it was just that Colombia's Pedro Manzanares managed to reach the ball for a save. Colombia's Pedro Manzanares played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Jerzy Piwowarski in the 29th minute of play. In the 31st minute Abram Sarmiento shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Dražen Ladić saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Colombia's Pedro Manzanares played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Álvaro Fonseca in the 32nd minute of play. Álvaro Fonseca received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 34th minute. Pedro Manzanares tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. 44 minutes into the game, Álvaro Fonseca cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 2-3. Pedro Manzanares was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. 48 minutes into the game, AC Morena's Cristoforo Labate nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Pedro Manzanares made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 3-3. The score stood at 3-3 when the half time whistle went. Both sets of players seemed reasonably pleased with how the match was going.

The wind increased when Aquiles Gana made the kick off in the second half. With a little luck, AC Morena's Dražen Ladić got control of the ball when Pascual Carballar tried to sneak it across the goal line. Colombia were awarded a corner in the 62th minute after AC Morena's defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. Axel Montenegro took the corner. A nice corner shot did that Axel Montenegro got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Dražen Ladić quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. Colombia's Pedro Manzanares played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Álvaro Fonseca in the 64th minute of play. Álvaro Fonseca's shot was meant for the net just under the crossbar, but Pedro Manzanares read the situation well and was quickly in position to make a wonderful save in the 68th minute of play. After 68 minutes of play, AC Morena's Álvaro Fonseca made it 4-3 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Pedro Manzanares was left in no man's land by his defense there! If Cristoforo Labate had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 76th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Pedro Manzanares made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Aldo Di Biagio in the 78th minute of play. Ignacio Mastache hit a great freekick 80 minutes into the match. Pedro Manzanares showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Emanuele Curti in the 83rd minute of the match. Pedro Manzanares showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Álvaro Fonseca, who was totally free with the ball in the 86th minute. In the 87th minute, Kevin Mastache 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. Pedro Manzanares made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Álvaro Fonseca in the 90th minute of play. An unexpectedly hard shot by Ignacio Mastache in the 93rd minute of play forced AC Morena's goalkeeper Dražen Ladić to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The crowd rose to their feet and cheered when the referee blew the final whistle. AC Morena had won after a very even match.