barcelona 3 - 0 INTER (365504794)

10025 spectators had come to boosi barcelona this cloudy day. Ad Grooten was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Rutgerus Korzilius and Peter Arensberg. barcelona had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. The following players took the field: Lyka - Cohen, Mor, Shifman, Israel - Shirazi, Mor, Zamir, Azrieli - Abramov, Besse.

INTER started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Starters: Abutbul - Gostev, Hilel, Kolnik, Keshet - Pe'er, Sachartov, Zerach, Saban - Veber, Zelman.

It was an obvious ambition of barcelona to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. With the match clock at 1 minutes, barcelona modified their style of play a little bit. Players in barcelona heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. The home side put themselves ahead 1 - 0 after 6 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from H. Zamir, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. H. Zamir of barcelona was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. barcelona put themselves up 2 - 0 when D. Shifman broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. 31 minutes in, barcelona's D. Shifman received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. 2 - 0 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by barcelona, with 67 percent of the ball.

The home side's D. Shifman came close to extending the lead 73 minutes into the game. His shot came in from the right hand side but C. Abutbul managed to save it with an unbelievable reaction stop. After 82 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and D. Abramov gave the barcelona supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 3 - 0. The players of barcelona now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. After 86 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by Y. Mor might have resulted in another goal for barcelona. However, C. Abutbul made a spectacular save. R. Hilel behaved like an inexperienced youth player after 87 minutes as he gave the ball away to J. Besse. Lucky for him though, there was no goal. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave M. Pe'er from INTER a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 89 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! barcelona claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 71 percent.

Most important barcelona player was J. Besse. D. Abramov was a disappointment, however. INTER's best player was A. Zelman. C. Kolnik turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 3 - 0.