Blackhawks 2 - 3 VECCHIO (319689621)

14956 spectators had come to Blackhawks Stadium this cloudy day. Jens Jørgen Bendix was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Thomas Nutley and Knud Tesak. Blackhawks started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. They fielded: Gómez de Villamayor - Ibragimovi, Sonsuz, Manai - Vangelisti, Leclère, Beattie, Lorenzon - Krasnikov, Graell, Schæfer.

VECCHIO decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Rizzuto - Bayer, Chiaroni, Carioca - Weitzer, Oskarsson, Farkas, Dávila, Bittar - Fieraru, Pérez.

Blackhawks mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. Some great play up the middle by Blackhawks led to a chance for R. Lorenzon to score after 5 minutes, but the shot hit the crossbar. VECCHIO had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 9 minutes in when E. Bittar came up alone against J. Gómez de Villamayor who managed a block. A mistake by the home side's central defence after 16 minutes allowed D. Fieraru to score for VECCHIO. The scoreboard now read 0 - 1. After 27 minutes, C. Pérez sent the corner kick right to T. Carioca who headed it sharply past the keeper. 0 - 2! VECCHIO made it 0 - 3 as D. Fieraru got a touch to the floated corner kick and flicked the ball to F. Dávila who whipped a low drive in off the far post. With 32 minutes played, D. Bayer nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. It was 0 - 3 at the break. VECCHIO claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 56 percent.

Blackhawks's M. Schæfer got the home crowd going when he finished off a left wing charge, reducing the away team's lead to 1 - 3. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave J. Chiaroni from VECCHIO a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 56 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! M. Schæfer was the unlucky victim and couldn't continue the game, so Blackhawks's G. Di Salvo had to come off the bench. After 58 minutes of game time, C. Pérez had an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors' lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but J. Gómez de Villamayor was in the right place and tipped the ball over for a corner. D. Weitzer wanted to play on, but the VECCHIO coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 60 minutes into the game by D. MacCarvill. Blackhawks were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. After 62 minutes, İ. Sonsuz had a good opportunity to reduce the scoreline for Blackhawks with a chance created through the middle, but wasn't cool enough. The ball went miles over the bar. İ. Sonsuz of Blackhawks was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. Blackhawks reduced the lead to 2 - 3 with 74 minutes on the clock when D. Ibragimovi got the best of a ball floated in from the left. Content with how the game was proceeding, the VECCHIO coach let M. Zeisel replace D. Fieraru after 75 minutes. The coach of VECCHIO was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 75 minutes, A. Rød came on for C. Pérez. With the scoreboard showing that 77 minutes had been played, VECCHIO nearly put themselves up another goal after A. Rød came through on the left. Fortunately for the home crowd, the keeper made the save. VECCHIO enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 54 percent of possession.

Most important Blackhawks player was I. Krasnikov. However, D. Ibragimovi made a disastrous appearance. VECCHIO's top performer was clearly F. Dávila. E. Rizzuto turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 2 - 3.