st3aua 2 - 5 f.c.bogin (238397755)

Clouds darkened the skies at Drumul Taberei as 11730 spectators turned up for the match. Tatu Aunio was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Heinrich Merkur and Theobald Kotfleisch. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for st3aua. The following players had been chosen: Neagu - Brovold, Persson, Cantoriu - Sarcină, Matute, Prudent, Baremans, Gheorghe - Sârbu, Codrut.

f.c.bogin tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Hasselkvist - Lubentsov, Taranin, Urbina Gauna - Comşa, Novac, Karabasma, Iakovidis, Liu - Rudin, Korotay.

st3aua mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. It was an obvious ambition of f.c.bogin to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. st3aua took the lead, 1 - 0, after a penalty 2 minutes into the match. V. Cantoriu scored from the penalty spot. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, A. Brovold got himself booked. The manager of st3aua was not happy. The visitors refused to give in and, after 33 minutes, T. Karabasma evened things up as he finished off a perfect pass from the right. 1 - 1 After 35 minutes a well-practised indirect free kick routine by f.c.bogin was easily anticipated by the defenders. The players forward were so well marked, they were left with few viable options. The corner kick from V. Cantoriu was powerfully met by the head of E. Persson to make the score 2 - 1. The crowd was silenced 39 minutes into the match as the visiting team's N. Iakovidis came in from the left, levelling the score to 2 - 2. 2 - 2 was the halftime score. f.c.bogin had most of the ball, with 63 percent of possession.

f.c.bogin's P. Taranin managed to lose the defenders as he advanced down the right wing and scored, putting the visitors ahead after 49 minutes. 2 - 3. After 68 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed L. Novac to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 2 - 4. The crowd gasped as N. Iakovidis of f.c.bogin was flattened by an opponent after 69 minutes and had to be carried off. L. Catană came in off the bench. The home crowd was not impressed when B. Lubentsov came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 70 minutes. f.c.bogin were now up 2 - 5. f.c.bogin claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 56 percent.

Most important st3aua player was A. Sârbu. V. Cantoriu was a disappointment, however. The most dominating f.c.bogin player was without a doubt L. Novac. L. Catană turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 2 - 5.