Guillaz 1 - 1 puedz (359051377)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 22217 had shown up at Losber Arena for the match. Adolfo Om was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Ivan Vykukal and Diego Rosas. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Guillaz. Starters: Bolscher - Kirmeier, Polat, Basulto, Artigas - Merklein, Krasiński, Burkhardt, Overkleeft - Courtial, Pérez.

puedz had chosen a strategic 5-3-2 formation. They fielded: Turkki - Gilardi, Castells, van der Berg, Łukowski, Casale - Illarramendi, Melvang, Gaultier - Baytak, Wegener.

The wings were the focus of most of Guillaz's attacks today. Counter-attacking seemed to be the preferred strategy of puedz. Guillaz had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. After some beautiful movement down the left wing, M. Courtial scored for Guillaz putting them ahead 1 - 0, after 18 minutes. Guillaz were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings. puedz were pushed back, and had many dangerous counterattacks. An impressive one came 36 minutes into the match, but J. Wegener narrowly missed the free kick attempt that was awarded as a result of a foul. With 43 minutes played, the puedz coach decided a substitution may help turn the game around. M. Gianello came on, T. Baytak had to leave the fray. It was 1 - 0 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Guillaz, with 65 percent of the ball.

Players in Guillaz heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. puedz's counterattacks created a good chance for D. Gilardi on the right after 54 minutes, but he could only look on with dismay as his strike rebounded off the crossbar. The referee showed puedz's M. Gianello the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. T. Gaultier of puedz seemed to be floating in the air as he elegantly headed in to make the score 1 - 1 after a corner kick that was nicely executed by J. Wegener. After 70 minutes puedz tried to exploit their counterattacking skills, unfortunately, M. Casale's shot sailed wide after his break down the right. puedz mounted an inspired counterattack down the right wing after 73 minutes, but Z. van der Berg was unable to convert from short range. Possession in this half belonged to Guillaz, who controlled the ball 66 percent of the time.

The most dominating Guillaz player was without a doubt C. Pérez. P. Artigas was a disappointment, however. Most important puedz player was A. Łukowski. However, H. Turkki made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 1 - 1.