CASINO 0 - 7 swestres (379058846)

A scorching day at Der-Berg-ruft Arena, where 1916 spectators were in place for today's match. Rui Baptista was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Rikard Eriksson and Lorenz Zundel. CASINO decided to use a 2-5-3 set up. Lineup: Barkın - Preetzmann, Chistov - Oliván, Baumann, Gulliver, Thoma, Sauerzapf - Boysen, Taduran, Cleuvers.

swestres tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Aabling - Gacias, Frank, Gallienne - Levi, Ørting, Barni, Langwied, Silva - Lubin, Fossà.

swestres saw most attack opportunities on the wings. swestres took the lead 22 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. D. Ørting was the scorer. E. Preetzmann showed his inexperience when he failed to anticipate the bounce of a high ball, allowing swestres's C. Fossà to take advantage and place a shot into the bottom corner of the goal. 0 - 2. Confident in their lead, swestres's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. After 35 minutes, swestres's F. Langwied burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 3. It was obvious that swestres had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. With 38 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed M. Barni of swestres to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 4. Halftime score was 0 - 4. swestres claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 67 percent.

G. Chistov didn't pace himself at all, and after a series of daring offensive runs he was too tired to help out in the defensive play. With 51 minutes played, the CASINO coach decided a substitution may help turn the game around. R. Cabbar came on, M. Taduran had to leave the fray. S. Lubin of swestres took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 52 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 5. Players in swestres heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. The home crowd was not impressed when L. Gallienne came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 53 minutes. swestres were now up 0 - 6. C. Fossà could have put his team up another goal 66 minutes into the game, after a rush down the left, but his closing shot hit the post. swestres were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings. Some fine movement on the left led to a swestres goal after 70 minutes, making it 0 - 7. V. Gacias was noted down as the scorer. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by swestres, with 63 percent of the ball.

Most important CASINO player was H. Sauerzapf. However, C. Barkın made a disastrous appearance. M. Barni performed admirably for swestres. On the other hand, S. Lubin's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 7.