Crystal 0 - 10 Pnie (371758024)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Alta Ripa saw a crowd turnout of 23908. Eddie Örnblom was the appointed referee. Crystal decided to use a 2-5-3 set up. Lineup: Bridgewater - Bolland, Kulus - Ventura, Tubau, Casellas, Kigoma, de Sousa - Chinês, Samsonowicz, Monteiro.

Pnie had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Chudala - Iser, Nuno, Achmadi - Ensrud, Touzard, Byczyk, Peralta, Endter - Brânză, Borozdinskiy.

Going for long shots seemed to be the strategy in use by Crystal. 2 minutes into the game, Crystal had difficulty finding their positions and their organisation dropped to poor. After 14 minutes, Pnie put themselves up 0 - 1, as A. Endter finished off a strike from the left with a real cannonball of a shot. D. Ventura of Crystal received a yellow card after 18 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. The visitors' T. Borozdinskiy took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 20 minutes into the match. 0 - 2 for Pnie. With 29 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed P. Iser of Pnie to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. The players of Pnie now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. 31 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 4 as J. Byczyk finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. It was 0 - 4 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Pnie, with 93 percent of the ball.

During the break, Crystal's coach went through the team's tactics yet again, getting them up to passable organisation. Some fine movement on the left led to a Pnie goal after 57 minutes, making it 0 - 5. J. Byczyk was noted down as the scorer. 70 minutes into the game, Crystal seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to passable. After 75 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for J. Byczyk who increased Pnie's lead to 0 - 6. This third goal completed a hattrick for J. Byczyk. K. Bridgewater kept the home side in the game with a magnificent save when A. Endter delivered an almost perfect free kick to the far post. A drive down the left side allowed T. Borozdinskiy to get in close and score another goal for Pnie after 79 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 7. Almost all the way down to the corner flag, Pnie's A. Ensrud somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for T. Borozdinskiy, who struck for 0 - 8. By then T. Borozdinskiy had scored three goals - a hat trick! P. Iser of Pnie took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 86 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 9. 87 minutes into the game, Crystal seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a weak level of organisation. After 87 minutes, Pnie sent a free kick in high over the penalty box. In what looked like a well-rehearsed move, the ball was headed backwards and reached A. Ensrud, who had plenty of space to place a well aimed shot - 0 - 10. Pnie claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 92 percent.

Most important Crystal player was W. Samsonowicz. S. Bolland turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating Pnie player was without a doubt G. Touzard. R. Achmadi was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 10.