Pratissolo 2 - 6 Real (392818504)

33016 punters turned up at La Rocca, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Elie Rougerie was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Xavier Usmi and Yulian Panov. Pratissolo had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Zherdin - Caretti, Blanc, Beauchet - Procaccianti, Manni, Aliaga, Garrido, Blanchard - Bartolomei, Maestro.

Real decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Lineup: Pepero - De Agustini, Lukošius, Palmu - Timotity, Guerrini, Giovinazzi, Plaia, Giampaoli - Scala, Riera.

Pratissolo clearly had decided to counter-attack when they could. Today, Real's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. Real had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. This was a good period for the visitors, with several opportunities to take the lead, particularly when G. Guerrini slipped through the defence on the right to come up alone against F. Zherdin, but the home side's keeper showed his lightning reflexes. Attacking on the wings was the choice for Real, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. Real's L. Timotity gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 10 minutes with a superb strike from the right. Real's L. Timotity got himself booked for a foul. Unfortunately for Pratissolo, A. Caretti was injured when the game became more physical, and he had to leave the field. C. Ruilópez replaced him. B. Procaccianti was handed the Pratissolo captain's armband. F. Zherdin kept the home side in the game with a magnificent save when J. Lukošius delivered an almost perfect free kick to the far post. After 22 minutes of play, R. Aliaga evened things up for Pratissolo with an impressive goal coming up the middle. 1 - 1. 1 - 1 was the halftime score. Real had most of the ball, with 53 percent of possession.

It was obvious that Real had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. The guests took the lead 65 minutes into the match, after a right-side attack resulted in M. De Agustini scoring to make it 1 - 2. The referee showed Real's J. Lukošius the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. A drive down the left side allowed E. Riera to get in close and score another goal for Real after 81 minutes, taking the score to 1 - 3. J. Beauchet couldn't do anything to stop the technically gifted M. Scala as he dodged past on his way to scoring a wonderful goal for Real - 1 - 4! M. De Agustini wanted to play on, but the Real coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 85 minutes into the game by V. Camorani. D. Pepero left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 85 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. F. Demurtas was the replacement. G. Blanc did everything he could to get one back for his Pratissolo, but keeper F. Demurtas denied him with a spectacular block. After 88 minutes, J. Lukošius sent the corner kick right to S. Giampaoli who headed it sharply past the keeper. 1 - 5! At this point, it was obvious that the players of Real lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. Pratissolo didn't give in and with 89 minutes played F. Manni was able to make the score 2 - 5 after an attack on the right. B. Plaia of Real took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 89 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 2 - 6. Y. Blanchard of Pratissolo received a yellow card after 89 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Real, with 56 percent of the ball.

J. Maestro performed admirably for Pratissolo. However, C. Ruilópez made a disastrous appearance. Real's best player was M. Scala. F. Demurtas on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 6.