DFCO-dijon 1 - 4 Couincouin (370454300)

Clear skies welcomed the 10550 spectators who had made their way to dfco stade. Vassilis Koutromichalis was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Šimon Javorský and Mark Davies. DFCO-dijon started off with a 4-5-1 lineup. Starters: Gabriëls - Tran, Rabatel, Siembida, Schiatti - Berquet, Lauwereys, Nickelsen, Hyötylä, Henninger - Miraka.

Couincouin decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Lineup: Falcão - Rehbein, Kapedani, Boroş - Ingman, Tasso, Argalo, Dvalin, Parlagh - Ahvalo, Azzarello.

Today, Couincouin's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. With the match clock at 1 minutes, Couincouin modified their style of play a little bit. After 29 minutes, a well-worked counterattack by Couincouin on the right presented an easy opportunity in front of the goal that was duly converted by C. Argalo to make it 0 - 1. Y. Dvalin increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 2. 33 minutes into the game, S. Ahvalo had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came J. Testelin. With 36 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed Y. Dvalin of Couincouin to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 3. Couincouin claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 59 percent.

Couincouin's Y. Dvalin had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 49 minutes having been played. J. Levis was the replacement. DFCO-dijon needed a fresh pair of legs on the field, and after 73 minutes A. Berquet made way for C. Chauvet. I. Schiatti neatly controlled the ball after a short corner, and knocked it on to B. Siembida who had the whole net open before him, but only managed to hit the post. B. Siembida behaved like an inexperienced youth player after 79 minutes as he gave the ball away to J. Testelin. Lucky for him though, there was no goal. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, DFCO-dijon's B. Siembida was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 80 minutes. G. Baliu was given a chance to change things around. Attacking on the wings was the choice for Couincouin, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. Couincouin's C. Argalo made it through the home team's defence on the right hand side 81 minutes into the match. After rounding the keeper, he only had to place the ball in the unguarded goal when a defender slid in and cleared the ball off the line. DFCO-dijon supporters cheered as good work down the right got the ball to M. Tran who reduced the visitors' lead after 82 minutes to 1 - 3. It was obvious that Couincouin had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. After the ball was lifted in from the left, J. Levis was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 85 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration. Couincouin had to make a substitution after 86 minutes. J. Testelin limped off the field and was replaced by D. Cholev. T. Ingman of Couincouin took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 87 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 1 - 4. 88 minutes in, DFCO-dijon's A. Hyötylä received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Couincouin had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

DFCO-dijon's best player was A. Miraka. G. Baliu on the other hand, had a terrible day. Couincouin's top performer was clearly C. Azzarello. On the other hand, J. Levis's play was disheartening. The match ends 1 - 4.