Fire 11 - 0 sport (324203292)

Clear skies welcomed the 17490 spectators who had made their way to Red Hell Arena. Raphael Felchlin was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Carlos McNutt and Fabio Monaci. Fire had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Selquist - Riveros, Almada, Debuysere, Lourenço - Barabanti, Hag, Brochado, Gald - Lundgaard, Droeshout.

sport decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. Lineup: Carvalho Campos - Matos, Magalhães, Costa, Domingues Ribeiro - Cunha, Sopas, Fernandes, da Costa - Canada, Banderas.

Fire saw most attack opportunities on the wings. Fire took the lead after 18 minutes as a result of D. Lundgaard's peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. Fire's F. Barabanti was shown a yellow card after 24 minutes for slicing down an opponent. The score became 2 - 0 at 28 minutes into the game, when Fire were given a penalty which T. Droeshout blasted straight down the middle giving the keeper no chance! Attacking on the wings was the choice for Fire, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. After 33 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and V. Riveros gave the Fire supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 3 - 0. Fire were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings. Fire increased the lead as Z. Brochado struck to make the score 4 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper. After this, you could see that the players of Fire were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Having been awarded a free kick in an awkward position after 36 minutes, Fire did not go for a shot but instead fired the ball hard into the 6 yard box. After a brief tussle with his marker, J. Hag was able to power the ball past the keeper to make the score 5 - 0. It was 5 - 0 at the break. Fire had most of the ball, with 72 percent of possession.

With 60 minutes played, Fire put themselves up 6 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to T. Gald, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. Fire's T. Droeshout struck his penalty well enough to beat the goalkeeper and extend the home team's lead to 7 - 0 after 64 minutes. After 71 minutes, T. Droeshout sent the corner kick right to D. Lundgaard who headed it sharply past the keeper. 8 - 0! After 73 minutes, D. Lundgaard put Fire ahead 9 - 0 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. This third goal completed a hattrick for D. Lundgaard. Players in Fire heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. Fire put themselves up 10 - 0 when D. Lundgaard broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Fire scored another to make it 11 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for Z. Brochado after 83 minutes. Possession in this half belonged to Fire, who controlled the ball 76 percent of the time.

Fire's top performer was clearly D. Lundgaard. S. Selquist turned in a dismal performance, however. Most important sport player was F. Canada. On the other hand, M. Costa's play was disheartening. The match ends 11 - 0.