FCRibeiraGrande 4 - 0 Galaxy (378905964)

Clouds darkened the skies at RibeiraGrande Arena as 448 spectators turned up for the match. Klodwig Zechepreller was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Wizze Batenburg and Julio Bensasson. FCRibeiraGrande decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Starters: Borges Santos - Cruz, Barros, Macedo Santos - Coelho Carvalho, Ferester, Nunes, Correia, Popârlan - Barney, Zvyagin.

Galaxy had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Honze - Zucconi, Hernández Iruela, Ramírez, Araújo - Goihenetxegarai, Amengual, Eslava, Suárez - Joanpere, Padró.

Galaxy demonstrated their creative tactics on the field. With 5 minutes gone, FCRibeiraGrande had a free kick in a decent position. Despite this being a great chance for a shot, they tried a cheeky move intended to bypass the defence. However, A. Nunes did not manage to connect with it cleanly and the ball went out. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, G. Barney got himself booked. The manager of FCRibeiraGrande was not happy. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to A. Nunes, but the FCRibeiraGrande player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! L. Cruz's lack of experience almost gave Galaxy a goal after 37 minutes, but the shot went right into the keeper's arms. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of FCRibeiraGrande to 2 - 0 as G. Barney finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. The teams went for the halftime break at 2 - 0. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by FCRibeiraGrande, with 71 percent of the ball.

FCRibeiraGrande put themselves up 3 - 0 when T. Barros broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. F. Araújo of Galaxy received a yellow card after 76 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Cheers filled the stadium as T. Barros broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 4 - 0 to FCRibeiraGrande. After 79 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as Galaxy found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to solid. FCRibeiraGrande had a magnificent opportunity after 86 minutes as L. Cruz hit the ball hard from the edge of the penalty box. However, the shot went wide. FCRibeiraGrande claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 77 percent.

The most dominating FCRibeiraGrande player was without a doubt A. Nunes. On the other hand, N. Ferester's play was disheartening. P. Padró performed admirably for Galaxy. C. Hernández Iruela on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 0.