Challenge

Red Dead Arena
Spectators: 39 (Terracing: 30, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Daniel Zorita started the match with the kick off. After a rather tough play, Ecuador's Felix Montes got a free kick in the 8th minute. With a little luck, Ecuador's Julio Vera got control of the ball when Jonathan Calleri tried to sneak it across the goal line. Through an outstanding action, after 22 minutes, Julio Vera successfully got his hands on the ball before it slid into the goal at the right post. Cristian Sancho received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 27th minute. Sándor Koós tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Julio Vera showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Clodoveo Feliz in the 29th minute of the match. Luis Andino sent away a hard shot on goal in the 31st minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Jonathan Calleri recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 35th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. 37 minutes into the match, Daniel Zorita had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Sándor Koós. Arthur Morgan´s Club's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Daniel Zorita was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-1. Julio Vera came out of the goal in the 40th minute to try and stop a shot by Arthur Morgan´s Club's Ivo Projkov. But to his dismay, Ivo Projkov quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 1-1. 48 minutes into the match, Ecuador's Cristian Sancho sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Sándor Koós narrowly saved just below the crossbar. The score stood at 1-1 when the half time whistle went. Both sets of players seemed reasonably pleased with how the match was going.

The wind increased when Jonathan Calleri made the kick off in the second half. Julio Vera made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Jonathan Calleri in the 51st minute of play. In the 53rd minute of the match Arthur Morgan´s Club got a corner. Ecuador's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Ivo Projkov ran over to the corner to take the kick. A well-hit corner resulted in Lucas Harkaitz heading the ball towards the goal, but to his dismay he misdirected it and missed the goal completely. After 57 minutes, Ivo Projkov mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Arthur Morgan´s Club and the Ecuador players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 57th minute, Ivo Projkov hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. After 62 minutes of play, Ecuador's Felix Montenegro made it 1-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Sándor Koós was left in no man's land by his defense there! Arthur Morgan´s Club's defense didn't have a chance, in the 73rd minute, when Cristian Sancho scored to the left of an out of position Sándor Koós, making the score, 1-3. In the 79th match minute, Arthur Morgan´s Club was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Lucas Harkaitz to maneuver through the defense. Daniel Zorita succeeded in the game's 87th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 1-4. Ecuador's Julio Vera played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Maximino Vela in the 89th minute of play. When the match was over Ecuador could go home with a victory in their luggage, having controlled the game far better than Arthur Morgan´s Club throughout the match.