Baraka 0 - 1 kintus (367375941)

It had rained all day, but 23657 hardy fans still made it out to Lasesarre Berria. Hermann Ratajczyk was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Giuseppe Maggio and Paul Gangemi. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Baraka. The following players had been chosen: Rubio Rueda - Millán, Medina Davila, Marrón - Sanchírico, Solís, Evans, Vasile, Moßhammer - Wurth, Søgaard.

kintus tactics involved an interesting 3-4-3 combination. They fielded: Nimet - Ciaurriz, Geisinger, Rabate - Halkjær, Imboden, Spiridonov, Wienand - Meló, Giphart, Camaro.

24 minutes into the game, A. Camaro had a great chance to put his team ahead, but his kick from the left went wide. Baraka made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left N. Sanchírico completely alone with keeper U. Nimet, who made a spectacular block. Coming in from the right, kintus had a good opportunity to convert on a counterattack after 33 minutes, but M. Geisinger's attempt to finish was easily stopped. Making his way up the middle 38 minutes into the match, V. Medina Davila almost managed to squeeze a goal past the visitors' keeper, but the alert U. Nimet blocked it to keep the score level. The home crowd was not impressed by the fancy moves of kintus's G. Meló after 40 minutes. He converted a pass from the left for a goal, resulting in the visitors taking the 0 - 1 lead. 0 - 1 was the halftime score. Baraka had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

Baraka tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play. 53 minutes into the match Baraka's S. Solís viciously shoved another player from behind while going for a loose ball and was sent off the pitch with a red card. J. Ciaurriz was struggling to make the ball dance with his usual trickery and panache, and the opposing players had little trouble shutting him down in these muddy conditions. A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from C. Imboden after 64 minutes, and prevented kintus from going up another goal. Baraka's A. Marrón was shown a yellow card after 67 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Baraka's C. Vasile made a successful breakthrough on the left after 70 minutes and should have levelled the score, but instead he clipped it over the bar. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave B. Wurth from Baraka a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 72 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! B. Spiridonov's knee will be throbbing for days, but thankfully for kintus, he bravely continued in the match. Possession in this half belonged to kintus, who controlled the ball 52 percent of the time.

Baraka's best player was R. Søgaard. J. Rubio Rueda was a disappointment, however. The most dominating kintus player was without a doubt J. Ciaurriz. U. Nimet on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 1.