Grabina 3 - 0 arnhem (379014416)

7482 spectators had come to Grabina Arena this cloudy day. Guillaume Gaillard was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Robert Walasik and Harry Bichsel. Grabina started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Starters: Trauvetter - Hackiewicz, Ouennich, Cestaro, Podbrożny - Śleszyński, Berlanda, Pawelec, Sauvain - Zawierucha, Couve.

A 4-3-3 alignment was the formation of choice for arnhem. The following players had been chosen: Duerig - Mikolevičius, Hekkert, Eriksen, Quinn - Enguéhard, Heuveling, Grodås - Hielz, de Souza, Sagaert.

Grabina broke through on the left 11 minutes into the game, with S. Berlanda firing in from an acute angle to give the home side a 1 - 0 lead. Some things can only be learned through experience, and J. Enguéhard should take his lesson to heart after nearly gifting Grabina a goal with 17 minutes of the match played. After 22 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and F. Sauvain gave the Grabina supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0. The teams went for the halftime break at 2 - 0. Grabina enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 70 percent of possession.

With 46 minutes played, the arnhem coach decided a substitution may help turn the game around. L. Sadeh came on, P. Hielz had to leave the fray. After 46 minutes, arnhem switched J. Sagaert with J. Käshammer, hoping for a quick impact on the pitch. The Grabina coach was visibly pleased with the score so far, but still ordered a few tactical changes 55 minutes into the game. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, arnhem's L. de Souza was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 77 minutes. L. Hurtado was given a chance to change things around. With 81 minutes played, Grabina put themselves up 3 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to S. Berlanda, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Grabina, with 69 percent of the ball.

The most dominating Grabina player was without a doubt R. Trauvetter. On the other hand, R. Hackiewicz's play was disheartening. Most important arnhem player was T. Heuveling. R. Duerig on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 0.