Boy`s 2 - 7 red_fighters (365330667)

Dark skies made the crowd of 13475 at Stanceni a little nervous, but the rain held off. Nicola Galati was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Bálint Gyimesi and Angelo Elsenberger. Boy`s had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. Lineup: Steinwender - Degler, Uruş, Treschkow, Orzac - Macabeo, Albertolli, Beca, Bănceu - Toma, Ciorbă.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for red_fighters. They fielded: Man - Hanu, Napier, Azevedo, Seren - Ciobănescu, Cséffai, Orumets, Jul - Bengtsson, Rengifo.

Boy`s mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. red_fighters saw most attack opportunities on the wings. The home crowd was not impressed by the fancy moves of red_fighters's J. Cséffai after 9 minutes. He converted a pass from the left for a goal, resulting in the visitors taking the 0 - 1 lead. red_fighters's J. Cséffai left the field after 15 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was I. Bondorf. red_fighters caught their opponents out with a clever counterattack down the right wing 23 minutes into the match. I. Bondorf was able to finish off the move - 0 - 2. G. Azevedo behaved like an inexperienced youth player after 28 minutes as he gave the ball away to G. Ciorbă. Lucky for him though, there was no goal. It took several tries, but Boy`s managed to break through on the left after 30 minutes, getting the ball to G. Ciorbă who easily reduced the lead to make the score 1 - 2. V. Orumets received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 38 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 1 - 3. The red_fighters fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. Boy`s's E. Macabeo got the home crowd going when he finished off a left wing charge, reducing the away team's lead to 2 - 3. With 42 minutes played, red_fighters put themselves up 2 - 4 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was E. Ciobănescu. It was 2 - 4 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by red_fighters, with 53 percent of the ball.

With 46 minutes played, the Boy`s coach decided a substitution may help turn the game around. V. Cecan came on, E. Steinwender had to leave the fray. After 47 minutes, Boy`s switched D. Toma with N. Ustić, hoping for a quick impact on the pitch. The bench was restless, and with 48 minutes passed Boy`s's coach gave R. Carvalho the opportunity the player had been hoping for. G. Ciorbă reluctantly left the field. It was obvious that red_fighters had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. 55 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 2 - 5 as G. Bengtsson finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. With 64 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed O. Seren of red_fighters to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 2 - 6. The players of red_fighters now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. T. Jul left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 65 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. M. Gurzun was the replacement. A drive down the left side allowed E. Ciobănescu to get in close and score another goal for red_fighters after 66 minutes, taking the score to 2 - 7. Boy`s's T. Albertolli was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 71 minutes. Had it not been for one of the home defenders, M. Gurzun would have put red_fighters up another goal 76 minutes into the match with his audacious lob from the right wing. Possession in this half belonged to red_fighters, who controlled the ball 55 percent of the time.

Most important Boy`s player was T. Albertolli. However, N. Ustić made a disastrous appearance. red_fighters's top performer was clearly I. Rengifo. D. Man on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 7.