sombras 8 - 0 Defensores (376466015)

It had rained all day, but 5972 hardy fans still made it out to Lado oscuro. Anders Rubinke was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Jernst Anema and Pere Martí. A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for sombras. Lineup: bin Sofian - Early, Provenzano, Baias - Bänziger, Lungu, Butks, Munárriz - Borg, Marinho, Cordero.

Defensores tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. They fielded: Case - Vann, Rybowski, Doe, Vokac - Mayer, Lewis, Moore, Russo - Macintosh, Whitney.

The wings were the focus of most of sombras's attacks today. After a fine move down the middle F. Bänziger nearly gave the home side a goal after 11 minutes. However the finishing shot went just wide. sombras took the lead after 22 minutes as a result of A. Cordero's peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. After 23 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and F. Bänziger gave the sombras supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave R. Mayer from Defensores a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 24 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! Things were going to get worse for the visitors. A. Cordero squirmed through their central defence after 26 minutes, increasing the lead to 3 - 0. F. Bänziger, who often relies on his speed, had a rotten day on the drenched grass. sombras put themselves up 4 - 0 when F. Bänziger broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. It was 4 - 0 at the break. Possession in this half belonged to sombras, who controlled the ball 80 percent of the time.

47 minutes into the match A. Cordero put sombras ahead 5 - 0 with a truly marvelous free kick. That made three goals for A. Cordero and he was marked down for the hat trick. The coach of sombras was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 48 minutes, B. Orsi came on for C. Munárriz. P. Marinho wanted to play on, but the sombras coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 65 minutes into the game by O. Adam. sombras's R. Early was shown a yellow card after 73 minutes for slicing down an opponent. M. Lungu increased the lead for sombras to 6 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! At this point, it was obvious that the players of sombras lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. After 75 minutes F. Bänziger made a speedy advance and dropped the ball to S. Borg who shuffled it past the keeper. The score was now 7 - 0. sombras had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. sombras's A. Cordero increased the lead to 8 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 78 minutes. Content with how the game was proceeding, the sombras coach let R. Wysiński replace D. Baias after 80 minutes. S. Borg unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. sombras claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 83 percent.

Most important sombras player was F. Provenzano. On the other hand, R. Wysiński's play was disheartening. The most dominating Defensores player was without a doubt T. Doe. However, T. Case made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 8 - 0.