Challenge

Estadio Nacional
Spectators: 47 (Terracing: 36, Seating: 11, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Yotam Tamir started the match with the kick off. After 3 played minutes G.R. got a freekick which was hit by Lavan Ziton. After a rather tough play, Costa Rica's Lautaro Puig got a free kick in the 6th minute. If Yotam Tamir had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 11th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. In the 13thth minute of the game Axel Tasis who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but G.R.'s Goel Glauberman was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Goel Glauberman showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Eliseo Noboa, who was totally free with the ball in the 16th minute. When Hen Shukrun came up free with the goalie in the 20th minute, the G.R. 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 Hen Shukrun couldn't finish the play. After a rather tough play, G.R.'s Yavin Warner got a free kick in the 21st minute. In the 26th match minute, G.R. was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Yotam Tamir to maneuver through the defense. If Lautaro Puig had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 27th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. After a rather tough play, G.R.'s Yavin Warner got a free kick in the 28th minute. 29 minutes into the match, Lautaro Puig notched a goal, 1-0, to the right of G.R.'s Goel Glauberman. Goel Glauberman was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. G.R.'s Yavin Warner got a good chance for a goal in the 33rd minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Goel Glauberman made a fantastic save in the 43rd minute, when Lautaro Puig sent off a good shot on target.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Axel Tasis to make the kick off. Hugo Ferrant made in the 60th minute of the game a throw-in that took a bad bounce and was taken care of by G.R.'s Jedaiah Elishvili. Efrain Moruga hit a great freekick 69 minutes into the match. In the 72nd match minute, Costa Rica was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Eliseo Noboa to maneuver through the defense. An unexpectedly hard shot by Axel Tasis in the 76th minute of play forced G.R.'s goalkeeper Goel Glauberman to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Abel Carballo made in the 80th minute of the game a throw-in that took a bad bounce and was taken care of by G.R.'s Giovanni Ben Yochay. In the 82nd minute, Efrain Moruga hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Eliseo Noboa took the ball and in the 85 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Goel Glauberman. Goel Glauberman dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 2-0. Axel Tasis received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 93rd minute. Goel Glauberman tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. The Costa Rica players were eager to celebrate when the final whistle sounded. They had somehow managed to win, even though the away team had held the majority of the possession.