iernut 0 - 3 Draculina (380798084)

A scorching day at Bernabeu Santiago, where 21516 spectators were in place for today's match. Greg MacRa was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Guglielmo Nigro and Edgar van Beelen. A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for iernut. The following players took the field: Vegdal - Duke, Stoltfus, Pârâianu - Klarić, Aranda, Zchut, Florentiu - Biesel, Völksen, Amayuelas.

Draculina tactics involved an interesting 5-3-2 combination. Lineup: Bürmen - Diczkó, Popovics, Niziński, Madzharov, Şerban - Durbacă, Marinescu, Brocea - Persson, Dumitru.

The guests almost went up by a goal after 4 minutes when I. Popovics came through and shot from the right. The ball bounced harmlessly off the post, though. iernut's J. Aranda refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon after 8 minutes. Draculina almost scored after a swift counterattack 17 minutes into the game, but D. Marinescu put the shot from the left flank just outside the goal. 18 minutes into the game, D. Marinescu was a hair's breadth away from giving Draculina the lead with a shot from over on the left. A prompt block by E. Vegdal saved the home team that time. E. Vegdal looked great 28 minutes into the match after stopping a shot from the middle of the penalty area from the visitors' A. Brocea. Halftime score was 0 - 0. Draculina claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 62 percent.

Making his way up the middle 50 minutes into the match, P. Völksen almost managed to squeeze a goal past the visitors' keeper, but the alert M. Bürmen blocked it to keep the score level. The fierce heat made it important to save breath, and after a few swift runs J. Aranda found it hard to get back into position. Draculina took the lead 68 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. S. Durbacă was the scorer. Had it not been for one of the home defenders, D. Marinescu would have put Draculina up another goal 77 minutes into the match with his audacious lob from the right wing. The sun seemed to put J. Biesel in a great mood, and he showed off his technical skills all match long. With 81 minutes played, Draculina put themselves up 0 - 2 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was M. Persson. D. Marinescu received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 85 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 3. The Draculina fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. Possession in this half belonged to Draculina, who controlled the ball 65 percent of the time.

iernut's best player was P. Völksen. E. Vegdal on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Draculina player was M. Persson. M. Bürmen was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 3.