les gones 2 - 0 Nougat (393343021)

Dark skies made the crowd of 1097 at Stade Gonétic des Lumières a little nervous, but the rain held off. Grzegorz Pacławski was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gérald Devaux and Paavo Helminen. les gones tactics involved an interesting 5-4-1 combination. The following players took the field: Brzozowicz - Foulon, Amiel, Cozzula, Grotkovský, Sterkina - Arteaga, Viin, Riche, Pärn - Stewart.

Nougat decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Lineup: Tant - Thiébeaux, Hébert, Liénard - Hueber, Berger, Gareau, Pecina, De la Venta - Rodrigues, Camara.

les gones were relying on their ability to counter-attack. After 15 minutes Nougat's B. Hueber had to be carried off on a stretcher in agony. G. Lacourte came in to replace him. After some beautiful movement down the left wing, M. Cozzula scored for les gones putting them ahead 1 - 0, after 20 minutes. Cheers filled the stadium as C. Stewart broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 2 - 0 to les gones. 2 - 0 was the halftime score. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by les gones, with 54 percent of the ball.

C. Stewart should probably have put his team up another goal after 69 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by J. Tant kept the visitors in the game. The visitors got a chance to pulling one back after 70 minutes, due to a defensive blunder leaving T. Hébert completely unmarked. His strike was pathetic though, easy prey for the home side's keeper. Possession in this half belonged to les gones, who controlled the ball 53 percent of the time.

Most important les gones player was F. Viin. Z. Brzozowicz on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Nougat player was without a doubt S. De la Venta. T. Hébert turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 2 - 0.