Peraltitas 1 - 1 Feds (370708489)

The crowd of 31865 turning up at Arena Meno today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Chrisley Hofmeijer was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gandert Bernard and Ludovic Vergne. Peraltitas decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Starters: Almunia - Varjomaa, Vesentini, Dubois - Kolpak, Casco, 木村 (Kimura), Traverso, Schlesien - Fouillade, Hristea.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Feds. They fielded: Malloci - Santin, Stára, Laev - Magonara, Katzir, Leuchi, Sárhidai, Ziętak - Žunić, Surnov.

Peraltitas seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. The muddy pitch made the game a gritty affair, which seemed to suit D. Stára just fine. It was 0 - 0 at the break. Peraltitas claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 54 percent.

R. Leuchi 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. Feds's B. Katzir gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 74 minutes with a superb strike from the right. After a fatal mistake from the away team's right side defence 79 minutes into the match, an alert F. Traverso bagged the ball for Peraltitas, levelling the score to 1 - 1. Feds's counterattack was impressive and was only stopped by a shocking foul. Somehow, the referee's cards remained in his pocket - a terrible decision! R. Surnov's resulting free kick was easily saved by the keeper. After 83 minutes, Feds's S. Malloci fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! Feds had to make a substitution after 85 minutes. L. Žunić limped off the field and was replaced by Y. Tuerk. Possession in this half belonged to Peraltitas, who controlled the ball 53 percent of the time.

燿. 木村 (Kimura) performed admirably for Peraltitas. However, Ó. Almunia made a disastrous appearance. Most important Feds player was R. Surnov. On the other hand, L. Santin's play was disheartening. The match ends 1 - 1.