Racing 6 - 3 Atletico (378183773)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 2890 to El Cilindro De Avellaneda. Anders E. Andersson was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Rodger Boggs and Lars-Ove Nilsson. Racing tactics involved an interesting 4-5-1 combination. The following players took the field: Rivero - Kiiski, Huiban, Goorhuis, Ventre - Szynalski, Klima, Pracz, Ezcay, Weichselbaum - Żyjewski.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Atletico. Lineup: Carapelle - 吉永 (Yoshinaga), Scalone, Rudello, Ghirardelli - Valgimigli, Paciotti, Magnanimi, Nupponen - Schultes, Arroyo.

Racing demonstrated their creative tactics on the field. It was an obvious ambition of Atletico to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. Atletico had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. With 5 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. 展. 吉永 (Yoshinaga) put the ball away for 0 - 1. A spectacular volley from R. Ezcay almost resulted in a goal, but a good save from the keeper kept it out, and I. Szynalski could only knock the loose ball wide. Racing tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play. Racing's R. Ezcay startled I. Szynalski with an unexpected pass. Unfortunately, the receiver was too stunned by the play to convert the perfect setup into a goal. After 23 minutes of play, G. Goorhuis equalised for Racing after an elegant attack from the right. 26 minutes into the game, M. Magnanimi had a great chance to put his team ahead, but his kick from the left went wide. After some beautiful movement down the left wing, D. Weichselbaum scored for Racing putting them ahead 2 - 1, after 31 minutes. Halftime score was 2 - 1. Racing claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

L. Pracz increased the lead for Racing to 3 - 1, 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! Unhappy with the result so far in the game, the Atletico manager used a brief break in play after 60 minutes to give the players new directives. Cheers filled the stadium as S. Huiban broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 4 - 1 to Racing. Atletico reduced the lead after 61 minutes to 4 - 2 as S. Schultes easily chipped the ball past the home side's keeper after a dazzling play from the right. 64 minutes into the game, Atletico seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to weak. After 65 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and G. Goorhuis gave the Racing supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 5 - 2. After this, you could see that the players of Racing were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. M. Kiiski should probably have put his team up another goal after 68 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by S. Carapelle kept the visitors in the game. 75 minutes into the game, Racing's D. Weichselbaum surprised the visitors with a raking cross-field pass to T. Żyjewski who easily found the back of the net, making the score 6 - 2. After 87 minutes, Atletico 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 S. Paciotti, who had plenty of space to place a well aimed shot - 6 - 3. Possession in this half belonged to Racing, who controlled the ball 65 percent of the time.

L. Pracz performed admirably for Racing. A. Rivero was a disappointment, however. Atletico's top performer was clearly S. Paciotti. However, S. Schultes made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 6 - 3.