Dongo 4 - 2 tacco (378424528)

1639 spectators arrived at Homer Jay Stadium, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Romeo Rijken was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Aaron Josua Frosch and Vaggelis Letsos. Dongo had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation. The following players took the field: Barbetta - Lodato, Shelgunov - Andracchio, Rivière, Tiganj, Leupe, Bertetto - Ciuplea, Luppino, Albertazzi.

tacco tactics involved an interesting 4-3-3 combination. The following players had been chosen: Malarranha - Pezzarossa, Vanni, Faoro, Pedulli - Nisii, Calandrino, Shabashkin - De Rossi, Zengers, Wielsch.

The guests took the lead 4 minutes into the match, after a right-side attack resulted in L. De Rossi scoring to make it 0 - 1. After 8 minutes, Dongo's C. Ciuplea fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! A. Bertetto showed the skills that make him a real crowd pleaser as he, after 9 minutes, wove through the guests' entire central defence and put the 1 - 1 equaliser away. 39 minutes into the game, tacco seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a passable level of organisation. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave G. Vanni from tacco a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 42 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! Dongo's A. Lodato went down after a savage challenge, but could continue playing after some medical attention. The celebrations in the stands could only mean one thing - A. Bertetto's free kick had found the back of the net and put Dongo ahead 2 - 1! 2 - 1 was the halftime score. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Dongo, with 59 percent of the ball.

The tacco players spent the break getting a rerun of the team's tactical organisation and regained a solid organisation when the game started again. The coach of Dongo was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 50 minutes, S. Sobieszuk came on for A. Andracchio. With 51 minutes played, D. Luppino could have brought this one home for Dongo as he charged up on the left, but his hooked ball went just a bit too high. Dongo's D. Rivière was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 57 minutes. 62 minutes into the game, G. Vanni had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came G. Labattaglia. Content with how the game was proceeding, the Dongo coach let F. Rizza replace G. Barbetta after 70 minutes. The score became 3 - 1 at 79 minutes into the game, when Dongo were given a penalty which A. Bertetto blasted straight down the middle giving the keeper no chance! That made three goals for A. Bertetto and he was marked down for the hat trick. The players of Dongo now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. Ater 85 minutes J. Zengers seized on an opportunistic attack from the right, and scored for tacco making it 3 - 2. V. Tiganj wanted to play on, but the Dongo coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 86 minutes into the game by A. Mallozzi. 88 minutes into the match, a typically brave header by D. Luppino from S. Sobieszuk's cross looped just over the opposing goalkeeper's desperate reach. Goal for Dongo, making the score 4 - 2. Possession in this half belonged to Dongo, who controlled the ball 59 percent of the time.

The most dominating Dongo player was without a doubt A. Lodato. P. Shelgunov on the other hand, had a terrible day. J. Zengers performed admirably for tacco. G. Labattaglia was a disappointment, however. The match ends 4 - 2.