drumsticks 2 - 3 Albatros (378521154)

1550 spectators arrived at The drumsticks Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Tamás Nagy was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Julio César Valles and Laurens Staller. A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for drumsticks. Starters: Briekeling - Vollaers, Bonnewit, Melkert - Dirkx, Waleveld, Stråmyr, van der Velde - Overdijk, Falix, Kouwen.

Albatros tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Durán - Spierings, Decheiver, Zandstra - Helmink, Lavenu, Zehende, Zorba, Aupperlee - den Herder, Kitslaar.

With 7 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. F. Helmink put the ball away for 0 - 1. Some fine movement on the left led to a Albatros goal after 29 minutes, making it 0 - 2. F. Helmink was noted down as the scorer. At 36 minutes into the game, drumsticks's E. Waleveld deftly knocked the ball home after an impressive run down the left, reducing the visitors' lead to 1 - 2. Albatros's Z. Spierings was shown a yellow card after 39 minutes for slicing down an opponent. The visitors' F. Helmink took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 44 minutes into the match. 1 - 3 for Albatros. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for F. Helmink. Halftime score was 1 - 3. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Albatros, with 64 percent of the ball.

With the scoreboard showing that 55 minutes had been played, Albatros nearly put themselves up another goal after F. Helmink came through on the left. Fortunately for the home crowd, the keeper made the save. J. Vollaers sailed high above the opponents as he headed in a corner kick from H. Falix after 68 minutes of play, making the score 2 - 3. 69 minutes into the match, Y. Lavenu came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. drumsticks's P. Overdijk almost tied things up with 76 minutes played after breaking through on the right, but his shot deflected off the post. Possession in this half belonged to Albatros, who controlled the ball 62 percent of the time.

Most important drumsticks player was P. Overdijk. T. Stråmyr turned in a dismal performance, however. F. Helmink performed admirably for Albatros. A. Durán was a disappointment, however. The match ends 2 - 3.