Tricolor 4 - 1 Xavantada (391558683)

18554 spectators had come to Águia Tricolor Arena this cloudy day. Reginaldo Klegues Montedo was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Emmanuel Schaeffer and Ilkka Joukainen. Fans of both teams had been eagerly awaiting this Rio Grande do Sul derby and were doing their best to outshout their opponents. Tricolor started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. Starters: Piras - Vega, Garostegui - Schmidt-Stelter, Ghislanzoni, Tartilas, Gür, Mollucas - Vančo, Coïc, Drew.

Xavantada decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Giro - Pipeta, Zanetta, Loccioni - Vandueren, Lhôtellier, Barglik, Michel, Jate - Noer Mogensen, Ybarra.

Tricolor tried to focus their attacks down the middle. Tricolor broke through on the left 12 minutes into the game, with R. Schmidt-Stelter firing in from an acute angle to give the home side a 1 - 0 lead. 23 minutes into the match, C. Noer Mogensen bent a free kick around the home team's defensive formation, leaving the keeper with no chance for a save. Xavantada had levelled the scoreline at 1 - 1. 24 minutes into the match and the home team took a 2 - 1 lead after breaking through on the left. The scorer for Tricolor was T. Coïc. Tricolor's M. Vančo increased the lead to 3 - 1, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 36 minutes. 37 minutes in, U. Vandueren made an incredible run up the middle and nearly reduced the home side's lead, but A. Piras refused to let the ball slip by him. T. Coïc unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. M. Ghislanzoni of Tricolor was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. 3 - 1 was the score after the first half. Possession in this half belonged to Xavantada, who controlled the ball 51 percent of the time.

The crowd roared its approval when A. Piras somehow managed to block a shot which seemed to be a certain goal by Xavantada's P. Barglik 47 minutes into the game. D. Caballero was called on to replace Xavantada's G. Lhôtellier after 54 minutes following a nasty collision. A. Drew had a fantastic opportunity to put Tricolor up another goal 77 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. A. Drew increased the lead for Tricolor to 4 - 1, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! Confident in their lead, Tricolor's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. M. Vančo of Tricolor received a yellow card after 87 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Xavantada, with 53 percent of the ball.

The most dominating Tricolor player was without a doubt T. Coïc. A. Drew on the other hand, had a terrible day. Xavantada's best player was P. Michel. On the other hand, V. Jate's play was disheartening. The match ends 4 - 1.