Challenge

Estadio Nacional
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Menelaos Karatsolis kicked off to start the match. When the match clock showed 5 minutes, the score became 0-1 when Menelaos Karatsolis sped through El Salvador's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Ricardo Zorita. After 8 played minutes, PALLINI RULES's Lefteris Anagnostakis shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Ricardo Zorita came through and got his fingers on the ball before it flew over the goal line. He then quickly gripped the ball tighter before the forwards in PALLINI RULES reached it. After some fancy dribbling in the 15th minute, Moises Fernandino managed to get in a good position for a shot. El Salvador's supporters rose to their feet, but Moises Fernandino was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Marinos Tsounis breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. In the 16th minute, Abram Luque left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The El Salvador fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 1-1. 20 minutes into the match, PALLINI RULES's goalkeeper Marinos Tsounis had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Moises Fernandino. After some fancy dribbling in the 22nd minute, Abram Luque managed to get in a good position for a shot. El Salvador's supporters rose to their feet, but Abram Luque was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Marinos Tsounis breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Ricardo Zorita made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Menelaos Karatsolis in the 24th minute of play. The supporters of PALLINI RULES booed when El Salvador was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 26 match minutes in a wonderful position. Abram Luque didn't get a good kick on the ball. Ricardo Zorita came out of the goal in the 28th minute to try and stop a shot by PALLINI RULES's Lefteris Anagnostakis. But to his dismay, Lefteris Anagnostakis quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 1-2. El Salvador's Moises Fernandino managed, thanks to a brazen rush, stole the ball on a throw-in made by Andreas Kontodimos in the 31 minute of the game. Ricardo Zorita didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Viktoras Chronopoulos went, in the 33rd minute, to the upper right corner, 1-3 was the resulting score. 43 minutes into the game, Menelaos Karatsolis cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 1-4. Ricardo Zorita was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. PALLINI RULES's Lefteris Anagnostakis got a good chance for a goal in the 46th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. The crowd was extremely unhappy with the home team's performance in the first half. They were losing 1-4.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Moises Fernandino to make the kick off. The supporters of PALLINI RULES booed when El Salvador was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 59 match minutes in a wonderful position. Jesus Carvallo didn't get a good kick on the ball. Ricardo Zorita acted impressively in front of the goal and made a superb save when he, in the 60th minute, took the ball on the long shot from Viktoras Sotiriou. Viktoras Chronopoulos sent away a hard shot on goal in the 65th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. In the 68th minute, Moises Fernandino ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Marinos Tsounis was frozen by the shot and now it was 2-5. Moises Fernandino fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 73rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Marinos Tsounis having to interfere. Marinos Tsounis showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Moises Fernandino, who was totally free with the ball in the 75th minute. The audience was convinced that Menelaos Karatsolis's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Ricardo Zorita was relentless in the 80th minute of the game. The crowd rose to their feet as Viktoras Chronopoulos kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Ricardo Zorita. That made the score 2-6 in the 85 minute of play. Moises Fernandino hit a great freekick 88 minutes into the match. 90 minutes in the game Andreas Kontodimos did a throw-in, and the ball was quickly in game thanks to Lefteris Anagnostakis. Menelaos Karatsolis who was well placed in front of the goal fired away a dangerous shot that in the 96thth minute tested the skills of Ricardo Zorita when he managed to save the team from getting behind. The referee blew the final whistle, and the away crowd roared, having watched PALLINI RULES eke out a victory against a very well matched opponent.