volamiopony 1 - 3 Aspropirgos (250552822)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 27050 to paperopoli. Stefano Noordhof was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Ábel Váczi and Rufo Vilamarín. volamiopony decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Lineup: Bhandari - Ruiz, Lóránt, Peleška - Vedersø, Frączak, Bank, Niewiarowski, Sperlings - Rinnooy Kan, Rashkovski.

Aspropirgos tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Ilie - Mobilia, Vesalainen, Winkelman - Ruiz, Reviglione, Rossi, Manchìa, Barsing - Luup, Bazzocchi.

Aspropirgos took the lead after 10 minutes making the score 0 - 1. A. Bazzocchi placed the ball out of reach for the home side's keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left. 17 minutes in, volamiopony's B. Bank received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. A. Luup of Aspropirgos took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 36 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 2. After this, you could see that the players of Aspropirgos were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. J. Bhandari got a fingertip on G. Manchìa's shot from the left 37 minutes in, and managed to keep the visitors from going up another goal. volamiopony's J. Rinnooy Kan cut towards the middle after 38 minutes, receiving a brilliant pass and slicing through the visiting team's central defence, reducing the lead to 1 - 2. volamiopony's A. Ruiz was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 39 minutes. It was 1 - 2 at the break. Aspropirgos claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

After 57 minutes, an incisive pass through the middle gave V. Vesalainen a chance to increase the lead for Aspropirgos, and he did not disappoint. The score was then 1 - 3. C. Gioacchini was called on to replace Aspropirgos's I. Ruiz after 66 minutes following a nasty collision. The Aspropirgos captaincy was handed to E. Reviglione. A misunderstanding between the visitors' keeper S. Ilie and his left defence could have resulted in a goal for volamiopony, but J. Rinnooy Kan's finish was way too lame. volamiopony had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

volamiopony's best player was K. Niewiarowski. H. Peleška was a disappointment, however. The most dominating Aspropirgos player was without a doubt G. Manchìa. On the other hand, C. Gioacchini's play was disheartening. The match ends 1 - 3.