Challenge

Estadio Azteca
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Roman Kaczynski started the match with the kick off. 3 minutes into the match, Yavuzalp Mesut notched a goal, 0-1, to the right of Mexico's Dante Lacasa. Dante Lacasa was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. After a rather tough play, Sielce Warszawa's Lucjan Zima got a free kick in the 8th minute. Joel Gaona took a chance and fired a shot far from the goal in the 9th minute, but it turned out to be a dangerous situation for André Onana. Sielce Warszawa's goalkeeper really had to stretch himself to stop the ball from crossing the goal line. In the 10th minute, Lautaro Mancebo 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. Qiu Yuan Lei kicked well hit freekick during the 11th minute of the match. Lautaro Mancebo fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 12th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without André Onana having to interfere. After 20 minutes of play, Sielce Warszawa's Yavuzalp Mesut made it 0-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Dante Lacasa was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 26th minute, Luca Rouco hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. The audience was convinced that Luca Zorita's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but André Onana was relentless in the 37th minute of the game. Mexico's Dante Lacasa played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Yavuzalp Mesut in the 39th minute of play. André Onana made an important save on a dangerous shot by Lautaro Mancebo in the 47th minute. Disappointed in the 0-3 score, the home team went to the dressing room to adjust tactics for the second half.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Joel Gaona to strike the kick off in the second half. The supporters of Sielce Warszawa booed when Mexico was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 51 match minutes in a wonderful position. Lautaro Mancebo didn't get a good kick on the ball. Gunnsteinn Guðbjörnsson hit a great freekick 52 minutes into the match. André Onana took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Lautaro Mancebo, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. André Onana showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Alberto Tafalla in the 63rd minute of the match. 64 minutes had been played when some careless play by Sielce Warszawa's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Joel Gaona was slow to take the kick. During this time Mexico's players had a chance to rest. After taking down the ball on Mexico's corner Joel Gaona fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and André Onana quite easily take care of the ball. Alan Hermes fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 66th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Dante Lacasa having to interfere. The throw-in from Macos Graciani in the 71st minute of the game was unfortunally taken care of by Sielce Warszawa's Gunnsteinn Guðbjörnsson. André Onana took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Lautaro Mancebo, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. With an all-out effort, Sielce Warszawa's Dante Lacasa threw himself towards the right post 78 minutes into the match and grabbed hold of the ball from Janusz Haskiewicz, which otherwise would have been placed in the net. After having played for 86 minutes, Lautaro Mancebo managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Mexico's supporters crossed their fingers, but Lautaro Mancebo was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. A hard shot by Qiu Yuan Lei from long distance, 88 minutes into the match, got Dante Lacasa's attention. Through a fast twist with his body, he could stop the ball from going in on his right side. When the referee blew the final whistle jeers and boos were heard from the home team's supporters. They were angered to see Mexico lose a match they had controlled from the kick-off.