P.L.H 0 - 4 galaticos (386278008)

23338 punters turned up at Arena 09, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Agapito Sosa was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Anthony Meyer and Espen Glargaard. P.L.H started off with a 4-3-3 lineup. The following players took the field: Corazza - Nerhus, Babintsev, Jensen, Gerhardsson - Ochrymiuk, Johansson, Cordoba - Brénon, Batatinha, Knick.

galaticos had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Braga Neto - Megale, De Carvalho, Bur - Boormans, Maestre Leon, Ralha, Iovenitti, Rönnstedt - Bergamaschi, Strebel.

The wings were the focus of most of P.L.H's attacks today. After 2 minutes, galaticos's D. Bergamaschi made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1. The referee showed galaticos's C. Bur the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. After 7 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as P.L.H found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to weak. Á. Ralha of galaticos took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 19 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 2. 25 minutes into the game, P.L.H seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a poor level of organisation. X. Strebel received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 30 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 3. The galaticos fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. After this, you could see that the players of galaticos were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Halftime score was 0 - 3. galaticos claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 78 percent.

The P.L.H players spent the break getting a rerun of the team's tactical organisation and regained a passable organisation when the game started again. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, P.L.H's B. Johansson was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 46 minutes. M. Bibo was given a chance to change things around. 70 minutes into the game, P.L.H seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to inadequate. After the ball was lifted in from the left, A. Rönnstedt was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 76 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration. A misunderstanding between the visitors' keeper J. Braga Neto and his left defence could have resulted in a goal for P.L.H, but R. Batatinha's finish was way too lame. galaticos increased their lead after 80 minutes when A. Iovenitti broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 4, much to the home crowd's dismay. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, E. Nerhus got himself booked. The manager of P.L.H was not happy. After 87 minutes, P.L.H's J. Knick fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by galaticos, with 70 percent of the ball.

R. Batatinha performed admirably for P.L.H. K. Babintsev was a disappointment, however. galaticos's top performer was clearly A. Iovenitti. A. Rönnstedt turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 0 - 4.