Challenge

泰山体育场
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Andriy 黄振 started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. Grégoire Conceicão hit a great freekick 5 minutes into the match. Cristoforo Savoia made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Zhu Ao Yi in the 15th minute of play. If Zhu Ao Yi had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 19th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安's Grégoire Conceicão managed, thanks to a brazen rush, stole the ball on a throw-in made by Feng Lei Tian in the 21 minute of the game. China's 魏亮宇 played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Andriy 黄振 in the 24th minute of play. 30 minutes into the match, Zhu Ao Yi had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Cristoforo Savoia. 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Zhu Ao Yi was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 0-1. A collision led to 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安 getting a freekick after 34 minutes play. Grégoire Conceicão hit a great ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Zhu Ao Yi in the 40th minute of play forced 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安's goalkeeper Cristoforo Savoia to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Zhu Ao Yi in the 42nd minute of play forced 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安's goalkeeper Cristoforo Savoia to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. In the 44th minute, 俞义凡 hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安's Cristoforo Savoia played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Zhu Ao Yi in the 46th minute of play. 魏亮宇 made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Andriy 黄振 in the 48th minute of play. The audience was convinced that Andriy 黄振's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but 魏亮宇 was relentless in the 48th minute of the game. Even after changing tactics the home team jogged off the field with a 0-1 deficit. They would have to work harder if they wanted to turn things around in the second half.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Zhu Ao Yi made a kick off. In the 53rd minute Andriy 黄振 shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but 魏亮宇 saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. After 60 played minutes 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安 got a freekick which was hit by 蔡岚平. Cristoforo Savoia showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Zhu Ao Yi, who was totally free with the ball in the 61st minute. 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安's 徐乐荣 was substituted for 谢霆岚. 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安's Cristoforo Savoia proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 72nd minute of the match, managed to save 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安 from getting a goal against them. China's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Long Xiang Yuan in the 73rd minute. After some careless play in the China defense, Andriy 黄振 kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of 魏亮宇. The China fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that 魏亮宇 should have stopped the shot. 79 minutes into the match, China's Zhu Ao Yi sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Cristoforo Savoia narrowly saved just below the crossbar. Cristoforo Savoia made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Zhu Ao Yi in the 92nd minute of play. When the final whistle sounded China left the ground with the victory after a much better performance than 『挑战者』中华泰山.天下泰安.