Black 0 - 9 Colombia (380212928)

Dark skies made the crowd of 12000 at Black Ants Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Adalberto Teruel was the appointed referee with assistance provided by George Subhedar and Jan Skov. The derby had been the talk of Zürich all week and fans of both teams could be seen throughout the stadium. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Black. The following players had been chosen: Scheidt - Martz, Zuffenhausen, Kummer, Rivoire - Gerdemann, Potter, Billy, Ramholt - Cuérel, Lusti.

Colombia decided to use a 4-5-1 set up. The following players took the field: Burian - Baquio, Pareja, Velamore, Mazza - Grassia, Novak, van Teijens, Le Guern, Rabajda - Ortega.

Today, Colombia's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. Colombia took the lead 5 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. F. Ortega was the scorer. S. Burian wanted to play on, but the Colombia coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 10 minutes into the game by A. Mann. 30 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 2 as F. Ortega finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. The referee showed Colombia's J. Rabajda the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. A. Velamore increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 3. By now, the players in Colombia felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. The home crowd was not impressed when F. Grassia came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 39 minutes. Colombia were now up 0 - 4. Players in Colombia heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. Had it not been for one of the home defenders, A. Mazza would have put Colombia up another goal 40 minutes into the match with his audacious lob from the right wing. Halftime score was 0 - 4. Colombia had most of the ball, with 87 percent of possession.

The Colombia players could smell victory in the air. F. Ortega wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for F. Kalkman after 50 minutes. The referee signalled a penalty 66 minutes into the game following an offence which looked like it was outside the box. F. Grassia knocked it home to make the score 0 - 5. With 69 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed V. Baquio of Colombia to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 6. After 70 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed J. Le Guern to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 7. A late sliding challenge from J. Rabajda was deemed to be his second yellow card offence by the referee, resulting in him being sent off, and Colombia left a man down. Colombia increased their lead after 80 minutes when F. Kalkman broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 8, much to the home crowd's dismay. The home crowd was not impressed when B. Novak came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 81 minutes. Colombia were now up 0 - 9. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Colombia, with 91 percent of the ball.

Black's best player was G. Martz. Q. Cuérel was a disappointment, however. Most important Colombia player was F. Kalkman. On the other hand, C. Pareja's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 9.