Challenge

Lusail Stadium Doha
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) El Salvador's Moises Fernandino 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. Ricardo Zorita showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Soltani Drid in the 4th minute of the match. Marco Tamayo's late challenge caught a Qatar Dust Kickers's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Marco Tamayo helped the player get up and apologised. After a rather tough play, El Salvador's Marco Tamayo got a free kick in the 7th minute. A hard shot 9 in the game by Soltani Drid from a close distance when the talented Ricardo Zorita managed to make a qualified save. El Salvador's players were relieved. In the 9th minute, Marco Tamayo hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. The audience thought a goal was coming when Hocine Bentaala got free with Ricardo Zorita in the 11th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. In the 14th minute Qatar Dust Kickers were awarded a corner. Abdellah Kader went to the cornerflag to take it. The corner led Qatar Dust Kickers's Jussef Ghozali to a score. 1-0 in the 14th minute. The audience was convinced that Soltani Drid's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Ricardo Zorita was relentless in the 20th minute of the game. When Qatar Dust Kickers's Soltani Drid in the 20th minute got a chance for a shot 20th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye El Salvador's goalie prevented a goal. After 23 minutes El Salvador's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Abdellah Kader who took care of the corner kick. Qatar Dust Kickers's Abdellah Kader was first on the ball when the corner was shot and he dangerously headed the ball towards goal, but Ricardo Zorita in the goal jumped up to prevent it from getting in. Hocine Bentaala scored 2-0 in the 24th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Ricardo Zorita, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. A collision led to El Salvador getting a freekick after 30 minutes play. Moises Fernandino hit a great ball. In the 33rd minute, Soltani Drid left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Qatar Dust Kickers fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 3-0. In the 37th match minute, El Salvador was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Abram Luque to maneuver through the defense. 38 minutes into the match, Hocine Bentaala had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Ricardo Zorita. El Salvador's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Hocine Bentaala was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 4-0. In the 41st minute, Qatar Dust Kickers's Soltani Drid dribbled the ball into the box and hit a shot with the outside of his foot, sending the keeper the wrong way. 5-0. Af the end of the first half the score was 5-0. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Soltani Drid to make the kick off. 51 minutes into the game, Hocine Bentaala cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 6-0. Ricardo Zorita was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. After 54 minutes of play, Qatar Dust Kickers's Hocine Bentaala made it 7-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Ricardo Zorita was left in no man's land by his defense there! Ricardo Zorita showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Soltani Drid in the 60th minute of the match. Ricardo Zorita made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Hocine Bentaala in the 62nd minute of play. After a rather tough play, El Salvador's Marco Tamayo got a free kick in the 63rd minute. When Abdellah Kader came up free with the goalie in the 65th minute, the Qatar Dust Kickers 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 Abdellah Kader couldn't finish the play. The supporters of Qatar Dust Kickers booed when El Salvador was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 66 match minutes in a wonderful position. Jesus Carvallo didn't get a good kick on the ball. Moises Fernandino received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 68th minute. Jussef Zemmamouche tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Gilles Tahar took the ball and in the 70 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Ricardo Zorita. Ricardo Zorita dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 8-0. If Moises Fernandino had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 74th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. When Qatar Dust Kickers's Soltani Drid in the 76th minute got a chance for a shot 76th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye El Salvador's goalie prevented a goal. After 83 played minutes Qatar Dust Kickers got a freekick which was hit by Hocine Bentaala. The audience was convinced that Soltani Drid's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Ricardo Zorita was relentless in the 89th minute of the game. 91 minutes into the game, Soltani Drid cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 11-0. Ricardo Zorita was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. After 94 minutes of play, Qatar Dust Kickers's Abdellah Kader made it 12-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Ricardo Zorita was left in no man's land by his defense there! For all the effort they put into the match, the El Salvador players left disappointed. They had fought hard, but couldn't break down the home team's defense. The match ended in a win for Qatar Dust Kickers.