S.C.Albufeira 0 - 3 Spökstads (393097326)

The crowd of 3430 turning up at Albufeira Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Pini Shomron was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Geert-Jan Esselink and Stephan Riedler. S.C.Albufeira had chosen a strategic 5-3-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Alder - Vicente, Borgen, Ventura, Rosa, Ventura - Regras, Cordeiro, Doce - Rambaldi, Amaral Gomes.

Spökstads started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Pettersson - Möllerbeck, Karlkvist, Håkansson - Gullstrand, Renmo, Tjäderstål, Pettersson, Augustsson - Juhlin, Fogelholt.

Spökstads had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 18 minutes in when T. Juhlin came up alone against T. Alder who managed a block. It was a bad day for the usually speedy B. Augustsson. The mud seemed to slow him down. With 26 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. B. Augustsson put the ball away for 0 - 1. After 36 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as S.C.Albufeira found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to passable. It was 0 - 1 at the break. Spökstads claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 75 percent.

The S.C.Albufeira players spent the break getting a rerun of the team's tactical organisation and regained a solid organisation when the game started again. S.C.Albufeira's A. Regras got himself booked for a foul. A loud groan was heard from the fans of Spökstads, as J. Karlkvist left the pitch in too much pain to finish the match. F. Quenet took his place on the field. 76 minutes into the game, Spökstads worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. There was concern in the stands when, at the 78 minute mark, Spökstads's I. Pettersson hit the ground hard, but he refused the attention of the trainer and rejoined his teammates on the pitch. The home crowd was not impressed when U. Fogelholt came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 83 minutes. Spökstads were now up 0 - 2. Spökstads increased their lead after 84 minutes when B. Augustsson broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 3, much to the home crowd's dismay. 88 minutes into the game, S.C.Albufeira seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a passable level of organisation. The coach of Spökstads was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 89 minutes, H. Olofsson came on for U. Fogelholt. Spökstads had most of the ball, with 75 percent of possession.

The most dominating S.C.Albufeira player was without a doubt V. Doce. A. Vicente turned in a dismal performance, however. Spökstads's top performer was clearly H. Olofsson. M. Håkansson was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 3.