Ungheni 0 - 2 Langoliers (389971969)

The crowd of 43000 turning up at Stadium of Liberty today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Anders 'Tornis' Tornstedt was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Tino Styger and Anthony Barzasi. Everyone was excited about the upcoming Chişinău derby and the crowd was divided evenly. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Ungheni. The following players took the field: Abol - Frunză, Popovici, Pagliaro, Schierstedt - Yu, Agnoli, Bogaert, Morena - Baltag, Lucena.

Langoliers decided to use a 5-4-1 set up. Lineup: Ardalı - Znagovanu, Varzaru, Protasov, Repetti, Diaur - Bajo Fernández, Bulgaru, Cojuhari, Butcari - Datelinka.

Ungheni's J. Lucena got himself booked for a foul. Due to a severely mistimed tackle, C. Znagovanu of Langoliers spent some time on the grass writhing in agony before he could get up and continue the game. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 0. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Ungheni, with 51 percent of the ball.

Ungheni's R. Yu was shown a yellow card after 73 minutes for slicing down an opponent. A loud groan was heard from the fans of Langoliers, as M. Datelinka left the pitch in too much pain to finish the match. F. Falcon took his place on the field. With 82 minutes played A. Baltag almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. Langoliers's defence sent a ball soaring up the middle on a beautiful counterattack with 83 minutes gone, but F. Falcon's finish was met by the reaching hands of the keeper. Langoliers's F. Falcon proved that he's been around on a football pitch before, when he took advantage of a few moments of confusion in the opposition's defensive line and elegantly scored for 0 - 1. I. Bajo Fernández's early cross saw the defenders caught out of position and the alert F. Falcon was able to pounce and roll the ball past the hapless goalkeeper to score for Langoliers. 0 - 2. After this, you could see that the players of Langoliers were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Possession in this half belonged to Ungheni, who controlled the ball 54 percent of the time.

The most dominating Ungheni player was without a doubt A. Baltag. A. Abol on the other hand, had a terrible day. L. Varzaru performed admirably for Langoliers. F. Falcon turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 0 - 2.