Challenge

Manfredi
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Son Banana started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. Roman Vachon showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Monty Rogers, who was totally free with the ball in the 2nd minute. Roman Vachon showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Monty Rogers in the 4th minute of the match. Roman Vachon made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Monty Rogers in the 9th minute of play. Manfredi AFC's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Kieran Listkowski in the 15th minute. Roman Vachon showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Cassius Byrne in the 16th minute of the match. 18 minutes into the match, USA's goalkeeper Marco Day had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Son Banana. When the match had gone on for 24 minutes, Monty Rogers put it in 0-1 from a short distance just to the right of Roman Vachon. Roman Vachon showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Cassius Byrne, who was totally free with the ball in the 28th minute. USA's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Cassius Byrne in the 29th minute. A nice corner shot did that Cassius Byrne got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Roman Vachon quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. In the 37th minute Qiu Lin Yi shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Marco Day saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Marco Day made an important save on a dangerous shot by Uriel Cordarrel in the 38th minute. Ronald Ferenc received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 39th minute. Marco Day tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Monty Rogers took the ball and in the 41 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Roman Vachon. Roman Vachon dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 0-2. If Cassius Byrne had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 46th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. After the first half USA were leading 0-2. They had played with great self confidence throughout the first half and fully deserved their lead.

The wind increased when Cassius Byrne made the kick off in the second half. Son Banana sent away a hard shot on goal in the 52nd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Roman Vachon took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Monty Rogers, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Manfredi AFC's Roman Vachon played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Monty Rogers in the 62nd minute of play. The audience thought a goal was coming when Cassius Byrne got free with Roman Vachon in the 64th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. An unexpectedly hard shot by Uriel Cordarrel in the 69th minute of play forced USA's goalkeeper Marco Day to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Manfredi AFC made a substitution. Love Coca replaced Qiu Lin Yi. Manfredi AFC made a substitution. Fausto Rafe replaced Son Banana. The corner led to Manfredi AFC's Diego Cocca getting away a dangerous shot that went just outside the goal. In the 74th minute, Love Coca ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Marco Day was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-3. USA made a substitution. Khalid Parry replaced Monty Rogers. In the 80th minute USA were awarded a corner. Jenson Smith went to the cornerflag to take it. Khalid Parry was in a good position and managed to take a shot, but he missed just to the outside of the post. Roman Vachon made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Khalid Parry in the 84th minute of play. Marco Day made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Ladislao Mannie in the 86th minute of play. Roman Vachon took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Sam Campbell, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Marco Day stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Fausto Rafe's shot from short distance in the 94th minute. Roman Vachon made a fantastic save in the 96th minute, when Sam Campbell sent off a good shot on target. Roman Vachon came out of the goal in the 96th minute to try and stop a shot by USA's Sam Campbell. But to his dismay, Sam Campbell quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 1-4. When the final whistle sounded USA left the ground with the victory after a much better performance than Manfredi AFC.