Challenge

Macaíba Stadium
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) União São José FC's Telmo Trevisan 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. Lauro da Silveira showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Kevin Reid, who was totally free with the ball in the 6th minute. Gloria Steinem Liberty's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Kevin Reid in the 7th minute. After a rather tough play, Gloria Steinem Liberty's Xiao Kong got a free kick in the 8th minute. Gloria Steinem Liberty's attentive Peter Tracy managed to snatch the ball when Waldemar Zanette made a throw-in in the 10th minute of the game. A collision led to União São José FC getting a freekick after 14 minutes play. Gil Meirelles hit a great ball. In the 17th minute Christopher Norfolk shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Lauro da Silveira saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Telmo Trevisan succeeded to score despite a near miss that spronge from right pole into the goal to 1-0 in the 19th playminute. The audience was convinced that Cláudio Loyola's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Ben Hazel was relentless in the 23rd minute of the game. After 26 minutes, Cláudio Loyola mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the União São José FC and the Gloria Steinem Liberty players grew even worse after the yellow card. Cláudio Loyola kicked well hit freekick during the 26th minute of the match. 27 minutes into the match, Christopher Norfolk notched a goal, 1-1, to the right of União São José FC's Lauro da Silveira. Lauro da Silveira was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. In a very dangerous position, a player in Gloria Steinem Liberty fell when an opponent tried to get the ball from him in the 32nd minute. Penalty! An unexpectedly hard shot by Kevin Reid in the 45th minute of play forced União São José FC's goalkeeper Lauro da Silveira to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Kevin Reid received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 47th minute. Lauro da Silveira tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. The score stood at 1-1 when the half time whistle went. Both sets of players seemed reasonably pleased with how the match was going.

In the 62nd match minute, União São José FC was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Cláudio Loyola to maneuver through the defense. Thanks to some nice foot action and superb ball handling Kevin Reid in the 63rd minute a chance for a shot on goal. With an extended leg and a bit of luck Lauro da Silveira prevented the ball from getting in the gole. Gary Milbourn kicked well hit freekick during the 66th minute of the match. In the 67th minute of the match Gil Meirelles shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Ben Hazel showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. Kevin Reid scored 1-2 in the 70th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Lauro da Silveira, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Ben Hazel showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Telmo Trevisan in the 74th minute of the match. The supporters of Gloria Steinem Liberty booed when União São José FC was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 76 match minutes in a wonderful position. Waldemar Zanette didn't get a good kick on the ball. After 78 played minutes, Gloria Steinem Liberty's Kevin Reid shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Lauro da Silveira 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 Gloria Steinem Liberty reached it. In the 85th minute Christopher Norfolk shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Lauro da Silveira saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Lauro da Silveira showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Dean Penfold in the 87th minute of the match. After a rather tough play, União São José FC's Gil Meirelles got a free kick in the 88th minute. Richard Hunter kicked well hit freekick during the 90th minute of the match. After 96 played minutes União São José FC got a freekick which was hit by Cristiano Proença. The União São José FC fans had already started to leave before the final whistle blew. Gloria Steinem Liberty were clearly better and deserved to take the win.