A.Raiders 3 - 0 Saints (371396197)

52773 punters turned up at Swindler's Den, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Carlos Puig was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Danielio van Gerven and Lars Tonnema. A.Raiders started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Corvese - Romero, Bolman, Hindmarsh - Kaits, Bedenham, Farrar, Ng, Ilberg - Dockerill, Inderbitzin.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Saints. The following players took the field: Golubko - Zucca, Macé, Chantrey - Cordero, Conescu, Morris, Frawley, Orad - Regan, Buteux.

It was an obvious ambition of A.Raiders to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. After a fine move down the middle D. Dockerill nearly gave the home side a goal after 5 minutes. However the finishing shot went just wide. With 9 minutes played B. Inderbitzin almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. Attacking on the wings was the choice for A.Raiders, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. At 23 minutes played, D. Dockerill came in from the right with the intention of giving A.Raiders the lead, but his rocket of a shot rattled the crossbar. A.Raiders's B. Inderbitzin tried to break through in the middle repeatedly, but couldn't get past the visitors' defenders. A.Raiders's J. Bolman was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 36 minutes. 0 - 0 was the halftime score. A.Raiders had most of the ball, with 58 percent of possession.

A.Raiders broke through on the left 61 minutes into the game, with K. Farrar firing in from an acute angle to give the home side a 1 - 0 lead. 64 minutes in, Saints's J. Macé received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in A.Raiders's D. Dockerill increasing the lead to 2 - 0. B. Inderbitzin wanted to play on, but the A.Raiders coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 73 minutes into the game by W. Achtelik. J. Ng increased the lead for A.Raiders to 3 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! After this, you could see that the players of A.Raiders were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Saints's L. Zucca was shown a yellow card after 81 minutes for slicing down an opponent. A.Raiders claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 60 percent.

Most important A.Raiders player was D. Dockerill. W. Achtelik on the other hand, had a terrible day. Saints's best player was M. Frawley. C. Cordero was a disappointment, however. The match ends 3 - 0.