Hiroos 0 - 8 Sigmaclub (330092408)

24000 spectators arrived at Louis Vuitton Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Paul Baptista was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Oliver Krause and Maurizio Klöhn. Hiroos had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. Lineup: Kajahara - Isayama, Masuno, Asaka, Inokuma - Kumaki, Sakamoto, Nanjo, Tawaraya - Sawaguchi, Yasuhiro.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Sigmaclub. The following players took the field: Tasev - Wening, Pattillo, Wójciga, Frankowski - Adolfsson, 藤田 (Fujita), Llanos, Stålby - Dimo, Bühnemann.

The wings were the focus of most of Sigmaclub's attacks today. The referee showed Sigmaclub's A. Frankowski the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Against a lesser team, Hiroos could very well have succeeded with their smart indirect free kick routine after 34 minutes. A trio of passes took the ball all the way past the defenders, but by then the intended recipient was already blocked off and the keeper could make a leisurely save. Players in Sigmaclub heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. With 36 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. Ł. Wójciga put the ball away for 0 - 1. It was obvious that Sigmaclub had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. Some fine movement on the left led to a Sigmaclub goal after 39 minutes, making it 0 - 2. G. Dimo was noted down as the scorer. Confident in their lead, Sigmaclub's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 2. Sigmaclub claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 62 percent.

The visitors' S. Bühnemann took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 52 minutes into the match. 0 - 3 for Sigmaclub. The coach of Sigmaclub was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 60 minutes, O. Fauth came on for H. Adolfsson. After 62 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed S. Bühnemann to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 4. After 64 minutes a very unfortunate collision in the penalty area led to Hiroos's S. Yasuhiro being carried off the pitch and replaced by Y. Kumaki. G. Dimo wanted to play on, but the Sigmaclub coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 65 minutes into the game by 順. 市川 (Ichikawa). Sigmaclub increased their lead after 67 minutes when 順. 市川 (Ichikawa) broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 5, much to the home crowd's dismay. Content with how the game was proceeding, the Sigmaclub coach let J. Holmberg replace M. Pattillo after 70 minutes. J. Holmberg was the new captain of Sigmaclub - handed the armband by the departing player. With 72 minutes played, Sigmaclub put themselves up 0 - 6 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was S. Bühnemann. By then S. Bühnemann had scored three goals - a hat trick! A well placed corner kick from A. Frankowski was followed by Ł. Wójciga's hard but accurate header. The well executed routine resulted in a goal for Sigmaclub, the score now 0 - 7. O. Fauth increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 8. Possession in this half belonged to Sigmaclub, who controlled the ball 65 percent of the time.

Most important Hiroos player was H. Sawaguchi. On the other hand, T. Masuno's play was disheartening. Sigmaclub's top performer was clearly S. Bühnemann. N. Tasev was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 8.