visinesti 0 - 4 cotoru (380199647)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 19378 to Dinamo Arena. Livio Strässle was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Corrado Tartari and Andrei Carabaş. visinesti tactics involved an interesting 4-3-3 combination. Lineup: Moran - Kananoja, Banchetto, Życzyński, Christensen - Miletić, Zentriegen, Trebišovský - Tuţă, Gondor, Fleckenstein.

A 4-5-1 alignment was the formation of choice for cotoru. They fielded: Igelell - Turtoi, Tyynysniemi, Gherca, Cook - Fischbeck, Klimala, Alf, Pia, Buşaga - Papança.

visinesti clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle. cotoru mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. 21 minutes of the match played, and a comedy of errors by the home side gave the visitors a chance at the lead, but R. Cook, after finding himself dashing down on goal from the left with only the keeper to beat, sliced his shot horribly wide. After 25 minutes, cotoru put themselves up 0 - 1, as L. Buşaga finished off a strike from the left with a real cannonball of a shot. 27 minutes into the game, cotoru worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. After the ball was lifted in from the left, D. Papança was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 29 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration. 0 - 1 was the score after the first half. cotoru enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 69 percent of possession.

S. Klimala was, after 56 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors' lead with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the centre, but the home side's keeper A. Moran made the save. The referee showed cotoru's M. Turtoi the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. After 78 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed L. Buşaga to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 2. After 79 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for D. Papança who increased cotoru's lead to 0 - 3. It was obvious that team cotoru had instructions to attack in the middle instead of on the wings. After 81 minutes, cotoru's L. Buşaga burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 4. This third goal completed a hattrick for L. Buşaga. Confident in their lead, cotoru's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. It might be a while before the fans see visinesti's B. Miletić again, after he had to leave the field in great distress at the 82 minute mark. He was replaced by D. Boroi. A. Moran got a fingertip on D. Papança's shot from the left 83 minutes in, and managed to keep the visitors from going up another goal. cotoru had most of the ball, with 76 percent of possession.

visinesti's top performer was clearly J. Gondor. D. Boroi on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating cotoru player was without a doubt D. Papança. However, M. Turtoi made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 4.