Hearts 9 - 0 azahar (367619810)

Clouds darkened the skies at Miami Street Stadium as 10320 spectators turned up for the match. Johan Belting was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Don Reerink and Christoph Schindler. Hearts decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Urponen - Gonzálvez, Puigventós, Zucchi - Navaza, Dos Santos, Pevec, Parlapiano, Ziorrola - Peev, Gualsoro.

azahar tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players took the field: Mitjans - Valenzuela Hita, Iribarren, Eleicigui, Tabernero - Meléndez, Méndez Castro, Durán, Rincón - Barral, Garrasi.

The wings were the focus of most of Hearts's attacks today. Hearts took the lead after 8 minutes as a result of L. Gualsoro's peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. Hearts's E. Zucchi struck his penalty well enough to beat the goalkeeper and extend the home team's lead to 2 - 0 after 9 minutes. With 15 minutes played, Hearts put themselves up 3 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to A. Ziorrola, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. After this, you could see that the players of Hearts were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. A. Ziorrola increased the lead for Hearts to 4 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! Hearts had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. Hearts put themselves up 5 - 0 when M. Navaza broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. The teams went for the halftime break at 5 - 0. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Hearts, with 77 percent of the ball.

It was obvious that Hearts had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. Hearts's B. Pevec increased the lead to 6 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 68 minutes. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Hearts scored another to make it 7 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for A. Peev after 69 minutes. N. Dos Santos wanted to play on, but the Hearts coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 70 minutes into the game by A. Mallorca. L. Gualsoro left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 80 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. J. Acosta was the replacement. Having been awarded a free kick in an awkward position after 82 minutes, Hearts did not go for a shot but instead fired the ball hard into the 6 yard box. After a brief tussle with his marker, B. Pevec was able to power the ball past the keeper to make the score 8 - 0. After 82 minutes, azahar's A. Rincón fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! Coming from the right, J. Acosta almost managed to score another goal for Hearts, but his header was tipped over the bar by the visitors' keeper. Cheers filled the stadium as R. Parlapiano broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 9 - 0 to Hearts. Possession in this half belonged to Hearts, who controlled the ball 85 percent of the time.

The most dominating Hearts player was without a doubt M. Navaza. However, A. Ziorrola made a disastrous appearance. Most important azahar player was P. Barral. On the other hand, J. Mitjans's play was disheartening. The match ends 9 - 0.