A.C. 2 - 1 ELPIERDO (366087261)

Clouds darkened the skies at The PassArena as 23000 spectators turned up for the match. Silvano Zippert was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gijs Jorritsma and Walther Suárez. A.C. decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. They fielded: Grozavu - Göllei, Niv, Feders - Mardi, Maddelein, Espinhel, Civo de Sopranis, Nunziante - Guette, Nuhiu.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for ELPIERDO. The following players had been chosen: Marques - Mirandinha, Troio, Tomčiak - Zagozda, Pipík, Tjalve, Azevedo, Fortin - Martínez Blanco, Parakhnevich.

ELPIERDO were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. With 16 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. G. Martínez Blanco put the ball away for 0 - 1. Attacking on the wings was the choice for ELPIERDO, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. With the scoreboard showing that 27 minutes had been played, ELPIERDO nearly put themselves up another goal after C. Tjalve came through on the left. Fortunately for the home crowd, the keeper made the save. The crowd was on its feet 32 minutes into the match, as A.C.'s V. Nuhiu found himself unmarked in front of the goal after a dash up the left side. He calmly put away the 1 - 1 equaliser. 1 - 1 was the halftime score. A.C. claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

With the match clock at 46 minutes, A.C. modified their style of play a little bit. 46 minutes into the match, the A.C. manager wanted to try a new tactic, and the players loyally obliged. After some beautiful movement down the left wing, V. Nuhiu scored for A.C. putting them ahead 2 - 1, after 69 minutes. After 83 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by Á. Göllei might have resulted in another goal for A.C.. However, L. Marques made a spectacular save. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, L. Parakhnevich got himself booked. The manager of ELPIERDO was not happy. A.C. had most of the ball, with 54 percent of possession.

A.C.'s best player was É. Guette. However, V. Grozavu made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating ELPIERDO player was without a doubt L. Parakhnevich. P. Troio on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 1.