+degandi 7 - 0 America (379867162)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 2184 at +degrandi Arena today. Rolf Knop was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Ovidio Camarón and Tore Hinna. +degandi started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Sarriera - Di Marino, Hassanabadi, Peeters - Pais, Ortiz Leon, Sinding, Cabral, Franch - Mandinga, Zabaleta.

America had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Starters: Vitale - Sánchez, Skinner, Gacitúa - Marani, Sánchez Gómez, Beekenkamp, Yun, Lokhin - Dymnikov, Gude.

O. Sinding gave +degandi the lead with a beautiful free kick after 2 minutes. 1 - 0! With 6 minutes played, D. Zabaleta could have brought this one home for +degandi as he charged up on the left, but his hooked ball went just a bit too high. Cheers filled the stadium as O. Franch broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 2 - 0 to +degandi. After 20 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and G. Mandinga gave the +degandi supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 3 - 0. With 22 minutes played, +degandi put themselves up 4 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to G. Hassanabadi, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. 4 - 0 was the halftime score. +degandi claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 67 percent.

The home side failed to add to their score as O. Sinding shot a penalty wide after 50 minutes. With 66 minutes played, +degandi's well-worked indirect free kick caused havoc in the penalty area, and when the ball eventually fell to D. Zabaleta he gleefully slotted the ball home to make it 5 - 0. At this point, it was obvious that the players of +degandi lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. The score became 6 - 0 at 76 minutes into the game, when +degandi were given a penalty which O. Sinding blasted straight down the middle giving the keeper no chance! +degandi managed to extend their lead to 7 - 0 when O. Franch cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. 89 minutes in, America's I. Sánchez received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. A loud groan was heard from the fans of +degandi, as G. Hassanabadi left the pitch in too much pain to finish the match. D. Carrasquedo took his place on the field. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by +degandi, with 62 percent of the ball.

Most important +degandi player was O. Sinding. D. Carrasquedo on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating America player was without a doubt K. Lokhin. C. Vitale was a disappointment, however. The match ends 7 - 0.