HFCB 0 - 9 SrcaSplita (374755839)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 12000 at Sala Arena today. Darren Stubbs was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Bennie Kapp and Heinrich Prenzlau. HFCB decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Verschuren - Reyerse, van Meekeren, Bingen, Vrenegoor - Fasseur, Harman, Calkhoven, van Gerven - Cornello, Gijssel.

SrcaSplita tactics involved an interesting 5-4-1 combination. Starters: Maštalíř - Labeau, Novac, Bezzolato, Amraoui, Danielsson - Oldendorf, Evangelista, Tümel, Johansson - Boháč.

0 - 1 was the score with 13 minutes played, after K. Boháč cut through the central defence and chipped home a goal for SrcaSplita. T. Danielsson hit the corner kick straight to the keeper, but it was mishandled, giving SrcaSplita's G. Bezzolato an easy chance to knock it in for 0 - 2. With 22 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed J. Johansson of SrcaSplita to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, J. Johansson got himself booked. The manager of SrcaSplita was not happy. The home crowd was not impressed when M. Evangelista came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 41 minutes. SrcaSplita were now up 0 - 4. Ş. Tümel came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle. He tried to lift the ball over M. Verschuren but overcooked it and hit the bar instead. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave J. Calkhoven from HFCB a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 43 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! After 44 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed R. Oldendorf to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 5. By now, the players in SrcaSplita felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. With 44 minutes played, seemingly due to lack of experience, R. Bingen needlessly tripped an opponent just outside the penalty area, but the free kick that followed didn't succeed. 44 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 6 as I. Novac finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. 44 minutes into the match SrcaSplita's G. Bezzolato viciously shoved another player from behind while going for a loose ball and was sent off the pitch with a red card. The player down was R. Fasseur. The HFCB bench looked worried for a while, but in the end he managed to get up. It was 0 - 6 at the break. SrcaSplita had most of the ball, with 88 percent of possession.

A drive down the left side allowed M. Evangelista to get in close and score another goal for SrcaSplita after 56 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 7. After 58 minutes, SrcaSplita's T. Danielsson burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 8. SrcaSplita had to make a substitution after 64 minutes. K. Boháč limped off the field and was replaced by 洪. 效翔 (Xiaoxiang). With 75 minutes played, L. Amraoui nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. The visitors added to their lead 79 minutes into the game, after a sensational penalty kick by SrcaSplita's J. Johansson slid just past the home keeper. 0 - 9. SrcaSplita claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 89 percent.

R. Fasseur performed admirably for HFCB. R. Cornello turned in a dismal performance, however. SrcaSplita's best player was 洪. 效翔 (Xiaoxiang). J. Johansson was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 9.