spirulina 2 - 0 Shark79 (381929751)

Dark skies made the crowd of 23400 at speriamo bene a little nervous, but the rain held off. Saturnino Necochea was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Achim Bräunig and Romeo Manea. A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for spirulina. Starters: Del Rosso - Mentone, Dolzhenko, Conceição - Sunesson, Matteoni, Ryborz, Laveggi - Trancoso, Cacà, Nájera Gómez.

Shark79 had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Wolfson - Rotaru, Cardol, Silva, Klamann - Lönnlind, Foronda, Jacobsson, Nørskov - Nossen, Manchia.

spirulina mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. Central attacks were the recipe of the day for spirulina, as they moved the ball from the wings to the middle with startling regularity. spirulina's T. Nájera Gómez tried to break through in the middle repeatedly, but couldn't get past the visitors' defenders. J. Trancoso caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 34 minutes. This gave spirulina the 1 - 0 lead. A. Del Rosso's name was chanted throughout the stadium after he made a fantastic save from A. Lönnlind's shot from the left 36 minutes into the match. Shark79 had a chance to level the score as O. Manchia suddenly found himself free in the middle of the box with only the keeper to beat, but he misjudged the finish, and only managed to hit the bar. Halftime score was 1 - 0. spirulina enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 63 percent of possession.

A cross coming in on the right hand side left A. Lönnlind alone in front of the goal after 65 minutes but his shot was woeful. Things were going to get worse for the visitors. G. Cacà squirmed through their central defence after 86 minutes, increasing the lead to 2 - 0. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave A. Lönnlind from Shark79 a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 88 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! spirulina were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. spirulina put in a good effort on the right, but G. Cacà saw his volley fly wide of the mark 89 minutes into the game. With 89 minutes played, A. Klamann of Shark79 fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. spirulina claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 64 percent.

spirulina's top performer was clearly T. Nájera Gómez. However, S. Mentone made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Shark79 player was without a doubt O. Manchia. R. Cardol on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 0.