Aleea 4 - 0 BUCOVINA (377720342)

Dark skies made the crowd of 42000 at WeekenD Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Yogurtu Hecti was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Assi Haike and Konsta Paturi. Aleea tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. They fielded: Gericke - Corlan, Ştefănescu, Buican, Vaz - Roncea, Brancato, Ciurea, Silva Salgado - Dumitru, Ignat.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for BUCOVINA. The following players had been chosen: van Schuppen - Palomino, Isaguirre, Borrull - Morales, Uusisaari, Gaskins, da Fonseca, Pipet - Tolvanen, Balan.

G. Roncea gave Aleea the lead as he successfully challenged the guests' central defenders, then slotted the ball into the bottom corner, giving the keeper no chance. 1 - 0 P. Gericke's name was chanted throughout the stadium after he made a fantastic save from J. Tolvanen's shot from the left 26 minutes into the match. Things were going to get worse for the visitors. G. Roncea squirmed through their central defence after 41 minutes, increasing the lead to 2 - 0. Halftime score was 2 - 0. Aleea enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 60 percent of possession.

G. Pittiş was called on to replace Aleea's A. Silva Salgado after 80 minutes following a nasty collision. BUCOVINA's L. Balan had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 84 minutes having been played. L. Albano was the replacement. H. van Schuppen was the new captain of BUCOVINA - handed the armband by the departing player. A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Aleea's G. Roncea increasing the lead to 3 - 0. By then G. Roncea had scored three goals - a hat trick! 87 minutes into the match, the visitors' central line of defence had to look on as I. Ignat broke through, making the score 4 - 0 for Aleea. By now, the players in Aleea felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. Aleea claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 58 percent.

Aleea's top performer was clearly A. Ştefănescu. G. Pittiş on the other hand, had a terrible day. J. Tolvanen performed admirably for BUCOVINA. L. Albano turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 4 - 0.