Challenge

Crystal Arena
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Marcos Lama showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Felix Montenegro in the 3rd minute of the match. After a defensive mix-up in Ecuador's zone, Carlos-Armando Valderrama stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Julio Vera came out of the goal and Carlos-Armando Valderrama tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. After a rather tough play, Veth Crystals's Song Xing got a free kick in the 17th minute. After 32 minutes of play, Veth Crystals's Carlos-Armando Valderrama made it 1-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Julio Vera was left in no man's land by his defense there! Marcos Lama showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Daniel Zorita in the 38th minute of the match. Marcos Lama showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Felix Montenegro in the 40th minute of the match. In the 40th minute, Felix Montenegro ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Marcos Lama was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-2. The Veth Crystals players were disheartened as they walked off the pitch after the first half. Ecuador were winning 1-2.

If Luis Andino had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 51st minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Felix Montenegro's shot straight on target was not completely harmless. The ball had pretty good speed, but Marcos Lama firmly grabbed it by the left post. Julio Vera stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Gwidon Patora's shot from short distance in the 57th minute. In the 61st minute Erik Persson 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. An unexpectedly hard shot by Gwidon Patora in the 64th minute of play forced Ecuador's goalkeeper Julio Vera to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Agustín Saelices kicked well hit freekick during the 69th minute of the match. Veth Crystals's Sebastian Wierzchowski was substituted for He Lin Di. Marcos Lama showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Cristian Sancho, who was totally free with the ball in the 73rd minute. Marcos Lama made a fantastic save in the 74th minute, when Daniel Zorita sent off a good shot on target. The audience was convinced that Gwidon Patora's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Julio Vera was relentless in the 76th minute of the game. If Gwidon Patora had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 78th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Daniel Zorita scored 1-3 in the 82nd match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Marcos Lama, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Carlos-Armando Valderrama received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 88th minute. Julio Vera tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 94th minute, Carlos-Armando Valderrama hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field.