Challenge

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Spectators: 43 (Terracing: 33, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) In the 7th minute, Colombia's goalie took a deep sigh of relief after Szymon Dzerwucki fired away a hard shot that went just outside the left post. Szymon Dzerwucki could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 9th minute of the match, but Pedro Manzanares made a huge save. Pedro Manzanares didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Milosz Skirzynski went, in the 11th minute, to the upper right corner, 1-1 was the resulting score. In the 15thth minute of the game Radomir Lato who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Colombia's Pedro Manzanares was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Milosz Skirzynski received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 18th minute. Pedro Manzanares tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. If Milosz Skirzynski had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 25th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 27th minute, Milosz Skirzynski 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. Pedro Manzanares showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Szymon Dzerwucki in the 28th minute of the match. 30 minutes had been played when some careless play by Colombia's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Konrad Bochinski was slow to take the kick. During this time Tornado's players had a chance to rest. At last the ball reached Milosz Skirzynski at the corner, ending with a kick to difficult to stop for the goalkeeper of Colombia. 2-1. A collision led to Colombia getting a freekick after 33 minutes play. Antonio Indiano hit a great ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Axel Montenegro in the 35th minute of play forced Tornado's goalkeeper Igor Koperski to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The audience thought a goal was coming when Xzavier Falco got free with Pedro Manzanares in the 38th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. After 41 played minutes Colombia got a freekick which was hit by Antonio Indiano. The audience thought it was a sure goal in the 43rd minute, when Tornado's Konrad Bochinski after having done a great run through the defense got himself free with Pedro Manzanares in Colombia's goal and fired away a shot, but it missed the goal by a fraction of an inch. Af the end of the first half the score was 2-1. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Abram Sarmiento to make the kick off. In the 51st match minute, Colombia was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Orlando Tafalla to maneuver through the defense. Konrad Bochinski took a chance and fired a shot far from the goal in the 52nd minute, but it turned out to be a dangerous situation for Pedro Manzanares. Colombia's goalkeeper really had to stretch himself to stop the ball from crossing the goal line. An unexpectedly hard shot by Szymon Dzerwucki in the 56th minute of play forced Colombia's goalkeeper Pedro Manzanares to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Elliott Vester hit a great freekick 57 minutes into the match. The supporters of Colombia booed when Tornado was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 58 match minutes in a wonderful position. Elliott Vester didn't get a good kick on the ball. Colombia's Pascual Carballar got a good chance for a goal in the 59th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. With a little luck, Tornado's Igor Koperski got control of the ball when Axel Montenegro tried to sneak it across the goal line. In the 71stth minute of the game Abram Sarmiento who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Tornado's Igor Koperski was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Colombia made a substitution. Ignacio Mastache replaced Abram Sarmiento. Tornado's Christian Viana was substituted for Konrad Bochinski. In the 74th minute of the match Colombia got a corner. Tornado's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Kevin Mastache ran over to the corner to take the kick. After taking down the ball on Colombia's corner Kevin Mastache fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Igor Koperski quite easily take care of the ball. Pedro Manzanares took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Szymon Dzerwucki, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Pedro Manzanares showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Szymon Dzerwucki in the 78th minute of the match. Igor Koperski made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Abram Secada in the 81st minute of play. 87 minutes into the match, Santino Seco dribbled the ball past the defender and swiftly kicked the ball to the left of Igor Koperski, 2-2. A well done corner resulted in Abram Secada drilling the ball in to score 2-3 behind Tornado's goalkeeper. The Colombia supporters could be heard counting down the last seconds of the match. They errupted in celebration when the whistle blew, knowing Colombia would go home with victory in their luggage after a match that easily could have ended differently.