Malagueño04 4 - 2 LH (378240464)

It had rained all day, but 635 hardy fans still made it out to Puerto Stadium. Efisio Trabace was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Nivaldo Marciano and David Dyrhult. Malagueño04 started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. The following players took the field: Calbetón - Ocaña, Gorbea - Orriols, Calsa, Ramos Brugarolas, Varjas, Khlafa - Frontín, Helguere, Sechei.

LH tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. Starters: Escrig - Kivi, Duliga - Mycek, Niubó, Vittaniemi, Fehér, Rigau - Ortiz el Mozo, Castells, Ramiro.

LH clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle. LH's K. Mycek was shown a yellow card after 2 minutes for slicing down an opponent. 12 minutes into the game, H. Varjas had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came R. Montes. Malagueño04 fans held their breath as X. Ocaña scampered down the left side. He successfully avoided all challenges and cracked home the shot for 1 - 0! Things were going to get worse for the visitors. V. Frontín squirmed through their central defence after 24 minutes, increasing the lead to 2 - 0. The players of Malagueño04 now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. E. Gorbea didn't let the weather get him down and made some great moves on the pitch in spite of the rain. After 39 minutes, Malagueño04's E. Ramos Brugarolas fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! Malagueño04 increased the lead as E. Ramos Brugarolas struck to make the score 3 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper. With 41 minutes played, A. Ramiro had a fantastic opportunity to reply but his shot flew harmlessly into the side-netting of the goal. 3 - 0 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Malagueño04, with 55 percent of the ball.

51 minutes into the game, LH had difficulty finding their positions and their organisation dropped to passable. 61 minutes in, Malagueño04's V. Frontín received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Ater 67 minutes R. Niubó seized on an opportunistic attack from the right, and scored for LH making it 3 - 1. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, V. Calsa got himself booked. The manager of Malagueño04 was not happy. The boggy pitch disrupted the game, especially for technical players like V. Calsa. After 86 minutes a well-practised indirect free kick routine by Malagueño04 was easily anticipated by the defenders. The players forward were so well marked, they were left with few viable options. 87 minutes into the game, LH seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to weak. Morale on the visitors' bench was greatly improved when their A. Ramiro reduced the lead to make it 3 - 2 after 88 minutes, following a pass from the right. Cheers filled the stadium as S. Helguere broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 4 - 2 to Malagueño04. 89 minutes into the game, LH seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a weak level of organisation. Possession in this half belonged to Malagueño04, who controlled the ball 59 percent of the time.

The most dominating Malagueño04 player was without a doubt S. Helguere. R. Montes was a disappointment, however. Most important LH player was M. Castells. On the other hand, A. Duliga's play was disheartening. The match ends 4 - 2.