Challenge

Ilha Do Retiro
Spectators: 41 (Terracing: 32, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) The audience was convinced that Doctor Strange's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Marco Day was relentless in the 6th minute of the game. When USA's Cassius Byrne in the 9th minute got a chance for a shot 9th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye Sport Clube Recife's goalie prevented a goal. Percy Fernandez showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Cassius Byrne, who was totally free with the ball in the 11th minute. Marco Day made an important save on a dangerous shot by Doctor Strange in the 13th minute. Monty Rogers received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 14th minute. Percy Fernandez tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. An unexpectedly hard shot by Gualter Penha in the 17th minute of play forced USA's goalkeeper Marco Day to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 18th minute Cassius Byrne shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Percy Fernandez saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 18thth minute of the game Cassius Byrne who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Sport Clube Recife's Percy Fernandez was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Percy Fernandez showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Monty Rogers in the 21st minute of the match. 23 minutes into the match, Sport Clube Recife's goal looked a bit too open when Cassius Byrne came free, but Percy Fernandez reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Sport Clube Recife's Percy Fernandez played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Cassius Byrne in the 26th minute of play. When USA's Jacob May in the 28th minute got a chance for a shot 28th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye Sport Clube Recife's goalie prevented a goal. In the 31stth minute of the game Cassius Byrne who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Sport Clube Recife's Percy Fernandez was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Marco Day made a fantastic save in the 37th minute, when Doctor Strange sent off a good shot on target. Cassius Byrne took the ball and in the 43 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Percy Fernandez. Percy Fernandez dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 0-2. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-2 lead.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Cassius Byrne to make the kick off. 51 minutes into the game, Monty Rogers cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-3. Percy Fernandez was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. USA's Marco Day played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Doctor Strange in the 55th minute of play. Sport Clube Recife were awarded a corner in the 57th minute after USA's defender lost control of the ball, allowing it to roll out over the line. Dong Yang Bang took the corner. After taking down the ball on Sport Clube Recife's corner Remo Carvalho fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Marco Day quite easily take care of the ball. Dong Yang Bang fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 60th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Marco Day having to interfere. Percy Fernandez stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Cassius Byrne's shot from short distance in the 62nd minute. A sloppy throw-in by Diego Bradley in the 65th minute of the game went astray and was snapped up by Sport Clube Recife's Knut Söderström. Marco Day showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Gualter Penha in the 67th minute of the match. 69 minutes into the match, USA's goal looked a bit too open when Dong Yang Bang came free, but Marco Day reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 71st minute, Edward Mcdonald ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Percy Fernandez was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-4. After a rather tough play, Sport Clube Recife's Dong Yang Bang got a free kick in the 76th minute. USA made a substitution. Khalid Parry replaced Monty Rogers. USA made a substitution. Marco Baker replaced Edward Mcdonald. An unexpectedly hard shot by Sam Campbell in the 78th minute of play forced Sport Clube Recife's goalkeeper Percy Fernandez to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Percy Fernandez made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Khalid Parry in the 80th minute of play. Delfim Leite succeeded in the game's 82nd minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 1-4. Marco Day showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Delfim Leite, who was totally free with the ball in the 85th minute. In the 86th minute of the match Sport Clube Recife got a corner. USA's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Dong Yang Bang ran over to the corner to take the kick. A nice corner shot did that Dong Yang Bang got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Marco Day quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. The audience thought a goal was coming when Sam Campbell got free with Percy Fernandez in the 89th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Sport Clube Recife's Percy Fernandez proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 92nd minute of the match, managed to save Sport Clube Recife from getting a goal against them. Sport Clube Recife's Percy Fernandez proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 94th minute of the match, managed to save Sport Clube Recife from getting a goal against them. An unexpectedly hard shot by Khalid Parry in the 95th minute of play forced Sport Clube Recife's goalkeeper Percy Fernandez to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball.