niels 0 - 3 Schwalbe (378947497)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 4021 had shown up at Het Eendracht Ajuin Stadion for the match. Steffen Falck was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Iker Lasanta and Ataliba D'Ávila. niels tactics involved an interesting 5-4-1 combination. Lineup: Rodrigues - van Witsen, Bertrand, Azzarini, Decoussemaker, Lecomte - Inglis, Haghedooren, Luyten, Leunen - Merle.

Schwalbe had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Paštar - Pinoniemi, Caprarelli, Dimitrov, Simov - Lund, Schraaven, Çağlayan, Kublar-Glueck - Öney, Düş.

niels mounted an inspired counterattack down the right wing after 15 minutes, but A. Merle was unable to convert from short range. R. Kublar-Glueck had a good try after 29 minutes, coming in on a fine move from the left, but the ball went wide. niels's counterattacks created a good chance for A. Leunen on the right after 30 minutes, but he could only look on with dismay as his strike rebounded off the crossbar. 35 minutes into the game, D. Öney was a hair's breadth away from giving Schwalbe the lead with a shot from over on the left. A prompt block by R. Rodrigues saved the home team that time. H. Lund came close to putting the visiting team one up 37 minutes into the match, following a solo raid down the middle, but R. Rodrigues managed to tip the ball to a corner. With 42 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. T. Simov put the ball away for 0 - 1. 0 - 1 was the score after the first half. Schwalbe claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 56 percent.

Although the whole team were struggling to impress, niels's A. Merle was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 46 minutes. C. Rito was given a chance to change things around. V. Azzarini was the new captain of niels - handed the armband by the departing player. B. Paštar left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 46 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. G. Wibaut was the replacement. After 46 minutes, the Schwalbe players received new instructions from their manager on how to keep in control of the game. The Schwalbe players could smell victory in the air. M. Dimitrov wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for K. Vonk after 46 minutes. L. Schraaven wanted to play on, but the Schwalbe coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 46 minutes into the game by S. Güstrwo. S. Inglis made a quick rush after 53 minutes, but T. Simov had no problems keeping up the pace and stopped the attack. The visitors added to their lead 69 minutes into the game, after a sensational penalty kick by Schwalbe's M. Düş slid just past the home keeper. 0 - 2. M. Düş could have put his team up another goal 76 minutes into the game, after a rush down the left, but his closing shot hit the post. Schwalbe's R. Kublar-Glueck was dominating his wing and kept sending fine balls into the opposition's box - D. Öney managed to volley one of them into the net to make it 0 - 3 after 87 minutes. The players of Schwalbe now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. Schwalbe had most of the ball, with 64 percent of possession.

niels's top performer was clearly M. van Witsen. S. Inglis on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Schwalbe player was R. Kublar-Glueck. However, C. Çağlayan made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 3.