biertappie 2 - 2 Vogels (377729799)

Dark skies made the crowd of 905 at de bierpul a little nervous, but the rain held off. Anton Flinken was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Pierluigi Curto and Witold Jastrzemski. biertappie started off with a 3-4-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Bruinsma - Fischer, Prost, Oldenziel - Busstra, Köhler, van Merwijk, van de Tonnekreek - van Eeden, Perçin.

A 4-5-1 alignment was the formation of choice for Vogels. The following players had been chosen: Falix - de Kok, Beek, Wisgerhof, Taal - Kinsbergen, Kerstens, Rutgers, Nieland, Apağ - Maters.

Vogels saw most attack opportunities on the wings. With 5 minutes played T. van Eeden almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. 7 minutes into the game, M. Beek had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came L. Hoekstra. Vogels's R. Rutgers gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 19 minutes with a superb strike from the right. 25 minutes into the game, biertappie seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to inadequate. Vogels had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. After 31 minutes of game time, R. Maters had an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors' lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but J. Bruinsma was in the right place and tipped the ball over for a corner. After 36 minutes of play, J. Oldenziel evened things up for biertappie with an impressive goal coming up the middle. 1 - 1. 1 - 1 was the score after the first half. Vogels claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 67 percent.

The biertappie players spent the break getting a rerun of the team's tactical organisation and regained a solid organisation when the game started again. 47 minutes into the match and the home team took a 2 - 1 lead after breaking through on the left. The scorer for biertappie was S. van Merwijk. Coming through the middle T. Taal almost scored the equaliser for Vogels after 52 minutes, but J. Bruinsma made an excellent save, tipping the awkwardly curled shot past the post. Vogels had to make a substitution after 62 minutes. L. Hoekstra limped off the field and was replaced by C. Besemer. J. Oldenziel's lack of experience almost gave Vogels a goal after 66 minutes, but the shot went right into the keeper's arms. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, J. de Kok got himself booked. The manager of Vogels was not happy. Vogels's right side looked dangerous 72 minutes in, but J. Bruinsma made a good save on D. Kinsbergen's hard shot to the top corner. With 73 minutes gone, a long pass from the defence of biertappie resulted in a counterattack that set M. Perçin free through the middle, but the keeper made a spectacular diving save. M. Perçin of biertappie received a yellow card after 76 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. After 79 minutes, the visitors levelled the scores after B. Apağ made it through the middle and struck home to make it 2 - 2. T. van Eeden of biertappie was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. Players in Vogels heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. D. Kerstens had a good opportunity to give Vogels the lead as he charged down the right and struck the ball towards the top corner, but the home team's goalkeeper made the save. Vogels enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 66 percent of possession.

Most important biertappie player was M. Perçin. However, J. Oldenziel made a disastrous appearance. Vogels's top performer was clearly J. de Kok. C. Besemer turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 2 - 2.