Blau-Weiss 0 - 1 POPESHTI (393495326)

Dark skies made the crowd of 1351 at BWD-Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Isko Kurri was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Eugenio Pichon and Jean-Jacques Barrere. Blau-Weiss had chosen a strategic 5-4-1 formation. Starters: Felfer - Clar Montes, Ekhtiari, Chumachenko, Eser, Komi - Demuth, Perepelitsa, Haudek, Fraller - Vukovic.

A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for POPESHTI. Lineup: Făcăoaru - Huapalla, Dufla, Cherecheş - Herghelegiu, Albici, Harizmendi, Buzdugan - Enginsu, Tănase, Rosochacki.

A corner kick created great disorder in the penalty area with a goal nearly scored by C. Huapalla. At last, POPESHTI's T. Enginsu was able to backheel the ball in. 0 - 1. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave A. Perepelitsa from Blau-Weiss a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 23 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! Unfortunately for POPESHTI, D. Cherecheş was injured when the game became more physical, and he had to leave the field. B. Görömböly replaced him. POPESHTI's B. Görömböly had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 31 minutes having been played. S. Grigorov was the replacement. It was 0 - 1 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Blau-Weiss, with 60 percent of the ball.

With 72 minutes played, after a good run down the left, S. Eser went down looking for a penalty after a challenge from the visitors' right fullback, but the referee waved play on, and later warned him for diving. 77 minutes into the match, I. Harizmendi came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. With 79 minutes played, Blau-Weiss's A. Perepelitsa found an opening in the visitors' left side defence, but his shot was handled easily by the keeper. Possession in this half belonged to Blau-Weiss, who controlled the ball 59 percent of the time.

The most dominating Blau-Weiss player was without a doubt V. Komi. On the other hand, J. Demuth's play was disheartening. POPESHTI's best player was S. Herghelegiu. S. Grigorov was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 1.