Challenge

Estadio Nacional
Spectators: 47 (Terracing: 36, Seating: 11, VIP seats: 0) Avtokomanda Sloboda's Žarko Mitanovski started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. Benito Sanz showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Mihail Dimovski in the 4th minute of the match. If Eliseo Noboa had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 6th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Benito Sanz made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Žarko Mitanovski in the 8th minute of play. After a rather tough play, Avtokomanda Sloboda's Mihail Dimovski got a free kick in the 13th minute. In the 14th minute of the match Alexander Carballo sent off a long shot with destination to the right of the goalkeeper, but Dojčin Jovanov skillfully saved the ball. When Axel Tasis came up free with the goalie in the 15th minute, the Costa Rica 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 Axel Tasis couldn't finish the play. Benito Sanz made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Žarko Mitanovski in the 17th minute of play. Benito Sanz showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Žarko Mitanovski, who was totally free with the ball in the 17th minute. Lautaro Puig's late challenge caught a Avtokomanda Sloboda's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Lautaro Puig helped the player get up and apologised. After a rather tough play, Costa Rica's Lautaro Puig got a free kick in the 22nd minute. 27 minutes into the game, Avtokomanda Sloboda's Andrej Milenkov nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Benito Sanz made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 0-1. 31 minutes had been played when some careless play by Costa Rica's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Florjon Petrusevski was slow to take the kick. During this time Avtokomanda Sloboda's players had a chance to rest. Florjon Petrusevski made a great header on Avtokomanda Sloboda's corner, it was just that Costa Rica's Benito Sanz managed to reach the ball for a save. In the 33rd minute, Dalin Čalovski 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. Benito Sanz showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Andrej Milenkov in the 35th minute of the match.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Axel Tasis was the one to do the kick off. In the 55th minute the ball was on its way in behind Avtokomanda Sloboda's goalkeeper Dojčin Jovanov, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. In the 56th match minute, Avtokomanda Sloboda was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Dalin Čalovski to maneuver through the defense. Benito Sanz showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Žarko Mitanovski in the 60th minute of the match. Costa Rica's Benito Sanz proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 62nd minute of the match, managed to save Costa Rica from getting a goal against them. The audience was convinced that Mihail Dimovski's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Benito Sanz was relentless in the 62nd minute of the game. In the 66th minute, Andrej Milenkov reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Benito Sanz. The goal made the score 0-3. In the 71stth minute of the game Axel Tasis who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Avtokomanda Sloboda's Dojčin Jovanov was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Axel Tasis hit a great freekick 74 minutes into the match. Žarko Mitanovski fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 77th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Benito Sanz having to interfere. Costa Rica's goalkeeper couldn't reach when Andrej Milenkov 79 minutes into the game got a good kick on the ball which found its way into goal just inside left pole. 0-4. Benito Sanz took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Žarko Mitanovski, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the 91stth minute of the game Axel Tasis who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Avtokomanda Sloboda's Dojčin Jovanov was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. When the match was over Avtokomanda Sloboda could go home with a victory in their luggage, having controlled the game far better than Costa Rica throughout the match.