emeloveL 9 - 0 milan777 (367157934)

8587 punters turned up at Botev Plovdiv, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Salvatore Rispoli was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Hannu Lahti and Martial Durin. Everyone was excited about the upcoming Plovdiv derby and the crowd was divided evenly. A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for emeloveL. Lineup: Güzcan - Ostrauskas, Yordanov, Garagnani - Gmyrek, Tomičić, Heijster, Jerzyk - op den Buijs, Gamma, Plaumann.

milan777 tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Starters: Pankov - Dayı, Chanev, Slavkov, Asenov - Donkov, Rangelov, Grúncharov, Arsov - Grozdanov, Genchev.

emeloveL took a creative approach on the field. M. op den Buijs really should have scored when he was chosen by fate to confront a wide open goal following a great play by M. Garagnani after a corner. The home side put themselves ahead 1 - 0 after 4 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from M. op den Buijs, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. C. Jerzyk hit the corner kick straight to the keeper, but it was mishandled, giving emeloveL's V. Yordanov an easy chance to knock it in for 2 - 0. Ł. Gmyrek had a fantastic opportunity to put emeloveL up another goal 12 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. I. Grúncharov of milan777 received a yellow card after 22 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. emeloveL were given a gift! The ref dubiously awarded them a penalty 26 minutes into the match, which was neatly put away by A. Heijster. 3 - 0 for the home side. After 31 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and M. op den Buijs gave the emeloveL supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 4 - 0. The players of emeloveL now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. emeloveL's M. op den Buijs increased the lead to 5 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 37 minutes. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for M. op den Buijs. The teams went for the halftime break at 5 - 0. Possession in this half belonged to emeloveL, who controlled the ball 77 percent of the time.

With 53 minutes played, emeloveL put themselves up 6 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to Ł. Gmyrek, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. Things were deteriorating for the away team as emeloveL scored another to make it 7 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for T. Gamma after 56 minutes. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, M. op den Buijs got himself booked. The manager of emeloveL was not happy. emeloveL managed to extend their lead to 8 - 0 when M. op den Buijs cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. Cheers filled the stadium as O. Plaumann broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 9 - 0 to emeloveL. emeloveL's A. Heijster swung in a good chance from the left, but the visitors' defence were able to clear the ball. emeloveL claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 77 percent.

emeloveL's top performer was clearly A. Heijster. H. Güzcan turned in a dismal performance, however. Most important milan777 player was Y. Grozdanov. V. Pankov on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 9 - 0.