Manchester 0 - 2 H fc (376807804)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 25648 at Old Trafford today. Juris Mickēvičs was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Rolf Hallauer and Bernd Goebel. Manchester had chosen a strategic 4-3-3 formation. Starters: Bregoli - Listauskis, Gavrieli, Salmanowicz, Krúdy - Halmos, Carotti, Kwaśniewski - Gurriarán, Krisch, Hellener.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for H fc. The following players had been chosen: Besse - Abreu, D'Antuono, Atanasov, Nadir - Ligas, Milasi, Tőrös, Kapecki - Guilcher, Aluf.

Manchester mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. Some good play on the left wing created an opportunity for the visitors 24 minutes into the match, and C. Abreu wasn't about to let it go by. He got past the defenders and fired a shot that the keeper just missed. 0 - 1 for the visitors. H fc's L. Kapecki got himself booked for a foul. Unfortunately for Manchester, D. Halmos was injured when the game became more physical, and he had to leave the field. M. Váňa replaced him. With 29 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed E. Ligas of H fc to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 2. At this point, it was obvious that the players of H fc lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 2. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by H fc, with 62 percent of the ball.

Although the whole team were struggling to impress, Manchester's D. Krúdy was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 62 minutes. O. Svoboda was given a chance to change things around. H fc's C. Nadir left the field after 76 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was M. Grossrieder. The referee showed Manchester's M. Kwaśniewski the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. H fc had most of the ball, with 58 percent of possession.

The most dominating Manchester player was without a doubt D. Gurriarán. On the other hand, M. Kwaśniewski's play was disheartening. Most important H fc player was G. Aluf. M. Grossrieder on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 2.