Challenge

Estadio Olímpico
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Daniel Zorita got the match started through his kick off. Didier Colpaert hit a great freekick 3 minutes into the match. Daniel Zorita's shot straight on target was not completely harmless. The ball had pretty good speed, but Volodymyr Zelenskiy firmly grabbed it by the left post. Cristian Sancho sent away a hard shot on goal in the 16th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Szuperbeton's Volodymyr Zelenskiy proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 17th minute of the match, managed to save Szuperbeton from getting a goal against them. In the 24th minute Jeoffrey Vermeulen shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Julio Vera saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Cristian Sancho received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 33rd minute. Volodymyr Zelenskiy tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Ecuador's Cristian Sancho got a good chance for a goal in the 37th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Gilliam De Fever hit a great freekick 38 minutes into the match. 44 minutes into the match, Szuperbeton's goalkeeper Volodymyr Zelenskiy had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Felix Montenegro. Agustín Saelices fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 46th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Volodymyr Zelenskiy having to interfere.

The wind increased when Gertjan Lanphan made the kick off in the second half. Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Daniel Zorita in the 52nd minute of play. After 55 minutes Ecuador's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Pierre De Swert who took care of the corner kick. An unexpectedly hard shot by Cristian Sancho in the 62nd minute of play forced Szuperbeton's goalkeeper Volodymyr Zelenskiy to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Volodymyr Zelenskiy took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cristian Sancho, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Ecuador were awarded a corner in the 65th minute after Szuperbeton's defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. Daniel Zorita took the corner. Daniel Zorita received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 66th minute. Volodymyr Zelenskiy tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Szuperbeton made a substitution. Robben Demeulemeester replaced Jeoffrey Vermeulen. Didier Colpaert's late challenge caught a Ecuador's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Didier Colpaert helped the player get up and apologised. A collision led to Szuperbeton getting a freekick after 69 minutes play. Didier Colpaert hit a great ball. Daniel Zorita took the ball and in the 71 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Volodymyr Zelenskiy dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 1-0. When Cristian Sancho came up free with the goalie in the 73rd minute, the Ecuador fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Cristian Sancho couldn't finish the play. Gertjan Lanphan could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 75th minute of the match, but Julio Vera made a huge save. The audience was convinced that Cristian Sancho's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Volodymyr Zelenskiy was relentless in the 77th minute of the game. In the 78th minute, Agustín Saelices ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Volodymyr Zelenskiy was frozen by the shot and now it was 2-0. 81 minutes into the match, Ecuador's Daniel Zorita sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Volodymyr Zelenskiy narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Daniel Zorita in the 84th minute of the match. After some careless play in the Szuperbeton defense, Cristian Sancho kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The Szuperbeton fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Volodymyr Zelenskiy should have stopped the shot. Gertjan Lanphan took the ball and in the 91 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Julio Vera. Julio Vera dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 3-1. Julio Vera made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Gertjan Lanphan in the 95th minute of play. There were very few away supporters still in the ground by the end of the match. Most of them had left early, disgusted by the way their team had been torn apart. Ecuador fully deserved thier win.