SANTALICES 0 - 2 Coruña (382907174)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Santalices_Arena saw a crowd turnout of 24979. Henri Palonen was the appointed referee. SANTALICES started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Yohpaz - Ånggård, Lombo, Longinotti - Hus, Greses, Bridon, Bertram, Dadda - Tymchina, Alfaro Moreno.

Coruña decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Lineup: Bechtol - Cernat, Meissnitzer, Ludwich - Van Leemputten, Cota, Karu, Vas-Fillado, Negulescu - Cillario, Yatuk.

SANTALICES had a chance to take the lead after V. Alfaro Moreno's dazzling drive up the left, but the opportunity fizzled out as his shot went just over the bar after 3 minutes. SANTALICES's R. Dadda left the field after 4 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was B. Solares. Coruña took the lead 5 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. A. Cernat was the scorer. The referee showed SANTALICES's D. Tymchina the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Coruña's R. Negulescu went down after a savage challenge, but could continue playing after some medical attention. SANTALICES's A. Longinotti almost tied things up with 19 minutes played after breaking through on the right, but his shot deflected off the post. A. Cillario of Coruña was able to make an impressive rush past the sluggish A. Longinotti, which resulted in a goal making the score 0 - 2. A misunderstanding between the visitors' keeper H. Bechtol and his left defence could have resulted in a goal for SANTALICES, but B. Solares's finish was way too lame. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 2. SANTALICES enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 59 percent of possession.

After 68 minutes, R. Bridon had a good opportunity to reduce the scoreline for SANTALICES with a chance created through the middle, but wasn't cool enough. The ball went miles over the bar. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by SANTALICES, with 61 percent of the ball.

The most dominating SANTALICES player was without a doubt E. Greses. B. Solares on the other hand, had a terrible day. Coruña's top performer was clearly R. Karu. However, R. Negulescu made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 2.