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To The Moon Arena
Spectators: 8588 (Terracing: 6442, Seating: 1975, VIP seats: 171) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Eduardo Viana got the match started through his kick off. In the 4th minute of the match, Avery Novak got a very nice opportunity to score, but David Prada was well-placed and pushed the ball away from the goal at the left post. After a rather tough play, Chihuahua StrikerS™'s Fábio Gouveia got a free kick in the 6th minute. Chihuahua StrikerS™'s Erlingur Haaland got a good chance for a goal in the 8th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Emilian Martinez showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Wojciech Wojno, who was totally free with the ball in the 9th minute. A collision led to SANFINS VLP getting a freekick after 11 minutes play. Adriano Garcia hit a great ball. 19 minutes into the match, Chihuahua StrikerS™'s goal looked a bit too open when Wojciech Wojno came free, but Emilian Martinez reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 20th minute Rogério Vidal shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but David Prada saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 22 minutes into the match, Chihuahua StrikerS™'s goal looked a bit too open when Yanick Coremans came free, but Emilian Martinez reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 25th minute Yanick Coremans shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Emilian Martinez saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. After 26 minutes of play, SANFINS VLP's Eduardo Viana made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Emilian Martinez was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 29th minute Eduardo Viana shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Emilian Martinez saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Emilian Martinez took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Yanick Coremans, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. A nice corner shot did that Rogério Vidal got away a dangerous shot. Despite this David Prada quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. With his leg David Prada managed to avoid a goal in the 34thth minute, when Chihuahua StrikerS™'s Rogério Vidal fired away a shot with a lot of spin towards his right hand side. A collision led to SANFINS VLP getting a freekick after 36 minutes play. Lourenço Candal hit a great ball. 36 minutes into the match, SANFINS VLP's goalkeeper David Prada had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Avery Novak. In the 41st match minute, SANFINS VLP was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Lourenço Candal to maneuver through the defense. After some careless play in the SANFINS VLP defense, Erlingur Haaland kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of David Prada. The SANFINS VLP fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that David Prada should have stopped the shot. Rogério Vidal received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. David Prada came out and tried to block the shot, but Rogério Vidal slotted it home off the left post making it 2-1 in the 46th minute. 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 Rogério Vidal to make the kick off. The audience was convinced that Avery Novak's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but David Prada was relentless in the 54th minute of the game. Emilian Martinez made an important save on a dangerous shot by Wojciech Wojno in the 56th minute. In the 58th match minute, SANFINS VLP was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Harry Meikleham to maneuver through the defense. After a defensive mix-up in SANFINS VLP's zone, Rogério Vidal stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. David Prada came out of the goal and Rogério Vidal tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Yanick Coremans could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 64th minute of the match, but Emilian Martinez made a huge save. SANFINS VLP's David Prada played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Rogério Vidal in the 65th minute of play. In the 68th minute Eduardo Viana shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Emilian Martinez saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. With an all-out effort, SANFINS VLP's Emilian Martinez threw himself towards the right post 68 minutes into the match and grabbed hold of the ball from Eduardo Viana, which otherwise would have been placed in the net. Rogério Vidal fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 73rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without David Prada having to interfere. In the 77th minute Cai Xiang Bin shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but David Prada saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. David Prada made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Cláudio Lisboa in the 78th minute of play. David Prada stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Cai Xiang Bin's shot from short distance in the 80th minute. In the 81st minute Cai Xiang Bin shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but David Prada saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 83 minutes into the match, Cai Xiang Bin had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of David Prada. SANFINS VLP's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Cai Xiang Bin was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 3-1. If Cai Xiang Bin had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 85th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. David Prada made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Cai Xiang Bin in the 87th minute of play. SANFINS VLP's David Prada played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Cai Xiang Bin in the 89th minute of play. The crowd rose to their feet and cheered when the referee blew the final whistle. Chihuahua StrikerS™ had won after a very even match.