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Carlos Salvador
Spectators: 7312 (Terracing: 5485, Seating: 1682, VIP seats: 145) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Arnoldo Ignatius started the match with the kick off. After 3 played minutes ¡Pisalo! got a freekick which was hit by Vicente Dimas. The audience was convinced that Arnoldo Ignatius's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Eustacio Miro was relentless in the 4th minute of the game. In the 14th minute, Arnoldo Ignatius left the goalkeeper for dead before tapping the ball into the right side of the net. The Xeneize fans were clearly happy with the effort and the scoreboard reflected the new score: 0-1. Victorino Bakar made a fantastic save in the 22nd minute, when Vicente Dimas sent off a good shot on target. In the 23rd minute Cristian Artal shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Victorino Bakar saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. A collision led to Xeneize getting a freekick after 29 minutes play. Arnoldo Ignatius hit a great ball. Eustacio Miro made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Arnoldo Ignatius in the 31st minute of play. If Arnoldo Ignatius had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 34th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Xeneize's Tomas Figueroa quite brazenly broke a throw-in by Ivan Bermund, made in the 38th minute of the game. Arnoldo Ignatius sent away a hard shot on goal in the 39th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. Zeledon Sedeni succeeded in the game's 46th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 0-2.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Cristian Artal to make the kick off. Victorino Bakar took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cristian Artal, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Xeneize's Victorino Bakar played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Cristian Artal in the 72nd minute of play. Uriel Nevada recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 75th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. Arnoldo Ignatius received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 76th minute. Eustacio Miro tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Eulalio Iruinea's late challenge caught a Xeneize's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Eulalio Iruinea helped the player get up and apologised. A collision led to ¡Pisalo! getting a freekick after 78 minutes play. Eulalio Iruinea hit a great ball. In the 79th match minute, ¡Pisalo! was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Vicente Dimas to maneuver through the defense. If Arnoldo Ignatius had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 82nd minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Arnoldo Ignatius in the 86thth minute had a little luck and got a chance for a shot in front of the goal. Without hesitation aimed to the right of Eustacio Miro, who managed to lunge to the right direction and made a save. Xeneize's Tomas Figueroa got a good chance for a goal in the 87th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. 90 minutes into the match, Xeneize's Eugenio Cordaro sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Eustacio Miro narrowly saved just below the crossbar. When the match had gone on for 92 minutes, Arnoldo Ignatius put it in 1-3 from a short distance just to the right of Eustacio Miro. Victorino Bakar took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cristian Artal, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the 98th minute, Xeneize's Zeledon Sedeni dribbled the ball into the box and hit a shot with the outside of his foot, sending the keeper the wrong way. 1-4. Xeneize's fans were overjoyed with their teams well-earned victory and stayed in the stadium long after the final whistle to celebrate the win.