Challenge

Estadio Azteca
Spectators: 44 (Terracing: 34, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Mexico's Joel Gaona 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. Lautaro Mancebo fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 9th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Igor Geofredo having to interfere. After a rather tough play, Halyczyna FK's Celso Argenis got a free kick in the 11th minute. After 12 played minutes, Mexico's Joel Gaona shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Igor Geofredo came through and got his fingers on the ball before it flew over the goal line. He then quickly gripped the ball tighter before the forwards in Mexico reached it. In the 16th minute Federico Ramone shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Dante Lacasa saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Igor Geofredo showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Joel Gaona in the 18th minute of the match. In the 19th minute, Celso Argenis hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Luca Rouco hit a great freekick 22 minutes into the match. After some careless play in the Mexico defense, Federico Ramone kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Dante Lacasa. The Mexico fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Dante Lacasa should have stopped the shot. Igor Geofredo made a fantastic save in the 27th minute, when Lautaro Mancebo sent off a good shot on target. Dante Lacasa showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Zygmunt Sikola, who was totally free with the ball in the 28th minute. After 30 played minutes Mexico got a freekick which was hit by Felix Luque. Igor Geofredo didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Joel Gaona went, in the 36th minute, to the upper right corner, 1-1 was the resulting score. 41 minutes into the match, Halyczyna FK's goalkeeper Igor Geofredo had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Lautaro Mancebo. Igor Geofredo took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Joel Gaona, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. 44 minutes into the match, Halyczyna FK's goal looked a bit too open when Joel Gaona came free, but Igor Geofredo reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Lautaro Mancebo scored 2-1 in the 46th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Igor Geofredo, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Af the end of the first half the score was 2-1. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

The hometeam waved at the audience when it was time for Federico Ramone to strike the kick off in the second half. 58 minutes into the match, Lautaro Mancebo notched a goal, 4-1, to the right of Halyczyna FK's Igor Geofredo. Igor Geofredo was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. In the 61st minute, Eustaquio Berenguer hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Igor Geofredo showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Lautaro Mancebo in the 63rd minute of the match. After 63 minutes of play, Mexico's Lautaro Mancebo made it 5-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Igor Geofredo was left in no man's land by his defense there! 67 minutes into the match, Halyczyna FK's goal looked a bit too open when Lautaro Mancebo came free, but Igor Geofredo reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. 68 minutes into the match, Halyczyna FK's goal looked a bit too open when Joel Gaona came free, but Igor Geofredo reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 68th minute, Joel Gaona made a precise shot to the right of Igor Geofredo. Halyczyna FK's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 6-1. Halyczyna FK made a substitution. Inocencio Osorio replaced Francisco Paskal. Igor Geofredo showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Lautaro Mancebo in the 74th minute of the match. In the 75th minute Joel Gaona shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Igor Geofredo saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. After a rather tough play, Halyczyna FK's Eustaquio Berenguer got a free kick in the 76th minute. Igor Geofredo showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Lautaro Mancebo, who was totally free with the ball in the 77th minute. Igor Geofredo came out of the goal in the 78th minute to try and stop a shot by Mexico's Joel Gaona. But to his dismay, Joel Gaona quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 7-1. The audience thought a goal was coming when Kerkyon Pantelakos got free with Dante Lacasa in the 81st minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. In the 83rd minute, Joel Gaona 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. Dante Lacasa was out of position in the 87 minute of play, and Zygmunt Sikola capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Zygmunt Sikola really showed his touch with that goal: 7-2. An unexpectedly hard shot by Lautaro Mancebo in the 89th minute of play forced Halyczyna FK's goalkeeper Igor Geofredo to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Joel Gaona received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 96th minute. Igor Geofredo tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere.