Official Cup

Gigante de Phoenix
Spectators: 165 (Terracing: 124, Seating: 38, VIP seats: 3) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Isak Lindberg kicked off to start the match. The referee felt a red card was in order, 8 minutes into the game, when Hector Spivey put in a rough tackle. In the 9th match minute, El Canalla de Chicago was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Hector Spivey to maneuver through the defense. In the 9th minute of the match Leonardo Astrada shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Jonah Peck showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. El Canalla de Chicago's Kermit DeJesus managed, thanks to a brazen rush, stole the ball on a throw-in made by Casimiro Valiente in the 15 minute of the game. An unexpectedly hard shot by Leonardo Astrada in the 18th minute of play forced El Canalla de Chicago's goalkeeper Jonah Peck to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Jonah Peck showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Alejo Otsando in the 21st minute of the match. 22 minutes into the match, El Canalla de Chicago's goal looked a bit too open when Isak Lindberg came free, but Jonah Peck reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. 23 minutes into the match, El Canalla de Chicago's goal looked a bit too open when Isak Lindberg came free, but Jonah Peck reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. After 24 minutes of play, Tama's Wojciech Jajecznica made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Jonah Peck was left in no man's land by his defense there! Jonah Peck showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Isak Lindberg in the 30th minute of the match. After 32 minutes, Martin Tuttle mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the El Canalla de Chicago and the Tama players grew even worse after the yellow card. In the 32nd minute, Martin Tuttle hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. A nice corner shot did that Leonardo Astrada got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Jonah Peck quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. Jonah Peck showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Wojciech Jajecznica, who was totally free with the ball in the 46th minute. Disappointed in the 0-1 score, the home team went to the dressing room to adjust tactics for the second half.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Clark Lindsey made a kick off. 53 minutes into the match, El Canalla de Chicago's Bernie Rosales sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Gaudencio Blai narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Casimiro Valiente made in the 55th minute of the game a throw-in that took a bad bounce and was taken care of by El Canalla de Chicago's Bernie Rosales. In the 59th minute Leonardo Astrada shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Jonah Peck saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Bernie Rosales sent away a hard shot on goal in the 62nd minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. In the 64th match minute, Tama was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Victorino Mogel to maneuver through the defense. Martin Tuttle took the ball and in the 66 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Gaudencio Blai. Gaudencio Blai dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 1-1. Tama made a substitution. Marco Santiago replaced Ernesto Lleir. Tama's Felipe Mino was substituted for Isak Lindberg. Felipe Mino did some fancy footwork in front of goal and succeeded to deceive the defenders so he could slam the ball in 1-2 to the left of a surprised Jonah Peck 77 minutes into the match. Felipe Mino scored 1-3 in the 80th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Jonah Peck, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Jonah Peck came out of the goal in the 87th minute to try and stop a shot by Tama's Leonardo Astrada. But to his dismay, Leonardo Astrada quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 1-4. Wojciech Jajecznica took the ball and in the 90 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Jonah Peck. Jonah Peck dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 1-5. Jonah Peck showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Alejo Otsando, who was totally free with the ball in the 92nd minute. Felipe Mino could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 96th minute of the match, but Jonah Peck made a huge save.