Benicarlo 0 - 5 shooters (367547502)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 12000 to Benicarló Municipal. Stefan Nuspliger was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Corrado Cantone and Ido Noot. Benicarlo started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Starters: Guinot - Sladkevich, Vispe, Radet, Mrowicki - Keylan, Toonder, Kamstra, Igeregi - Dehondt, Sáenz Oliván.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for shooters. They fielded: Yousif - Tiedemanns, Österblom, Werner - Brito, Zeytuni, Jansson, Safdil, Eberhart - Köymen, Beconcini.

Benicarlo clearly had decided to counter-attack when they could. It was an obvious ambition of shooters to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. The visiting P. Beconcini was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 2 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 0 - 1 was the score. After 7 minutes, shooters's C. Safdil burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 2. 39 minutes into the game, shooters worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. Good work by the Benicarlo defensive line after 40 minutes produced a good counterattack chance, which cut elegantly down the middle of the pitch and found T. Sladkevich alone in front of the goal, but his shot whistled just wide. With 41 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed C. Safdil of shooters to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. After this, you could see that the players of shooters were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 3. shooters had most of the ball, with 67 percent of possession.

The home crowd was not impressed when M. Zeytuni came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 65 minutes. shooters were now up 0 - 4. shooters were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings. Some fine movement on the left led to a shooters goal after 78 minutes, making it 0 - 5. S. Köymen was noted down as the scorer. With 79 minutes played, seemingly due to lack of experience, L. Radet needlessly tripped an opponent just outside the penalty area, but the free kick that followed didn't succeed. 85 minutes into the match, C. Safdil came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. shooters enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 74 percent of possession.

J. Dehondt performed admirably for Benicarlo. S. Guinot turned in a dismal performance, however. shooters's best player was H. Yousif. On the other hand, M. Österblom's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 5.