minervanderlecht 0 - 6 blowers (373027638)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and minervanderlecht Arena saw a crowd turnout of 7041. Nicola Frasso was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Heiko Sleking and Per Hexeberg. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for minervanderlecht. Starters: Van den Bergh - Herreman, Wees, Lamarque, Roseeuw - Aandekerk, Daeren, Lefèvre, Ghaye - de Bellefroid d'Oudoumont, Mellemans.

blowers had chosen a strategic 4-3-3 formation. The following players took the field: Torga - Abu-Ameen, Klimets, Cox, Sourd - Emmanuel, Rosine, Demuynck - Babul, Robledo, Moity.

It was an obvious ambition of blowers to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. The guests took the lead 5 minutes into the match, after a right-side attack resulted in M. Robledo scoring to make it 0 - 1. The referee showed blowers's D. Babul the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. The player down was G. Lefèvre. The minervanderlecht bench looked worried for a while, but in the end he managed to get up. After 22 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed C. Emmanuel to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 2. blowers were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings. A drive down the left side allowed C. Emmanuel to get in close and score another goal for blowers after 39 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 3. After this, you could see that the players of blowers were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 3. blowers had most of the ball, with 66 percent of possession.

Attacking on the wings was the choice for blowers, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. D. Babul increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 4. With 72 minutes played, blowers put themselves up 0 - 5 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was D. Moity. S. Demuynck of blowers took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 72 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 6. blowers's D. Moity left the field after 81 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was M. Monda. blowers enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 73 percent of possession.

The most dominating minervanderlecht player was without a doubt K. Roseeuw. R. Van den Bergh on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important blowers player was D. Babul. M. Torga was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 6.