afragolese73 0 - 5 zazza22 (380283034)

Dark skies made the crowd of 14500 at Fabio Quagliarella Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Elmir Ćervić was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Lauri Hartikainen and Ursin Guérin. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for afragolese73. They fielded: Grijalba - Dawidziuk, Paolini, Korsós, Schulderoff - Pike, Lavender, Csutka, Makara - Haji Ebrahimi, Canovo.

zazza22 decided to use a 2-5-3 set up. The following players took the field: Planchensteiner - Fiorani, Florean - Pappone, Zanderighi, Brienza, Feniello, Adamoli - Falappa, Gazda, Torresi.

afragolese73 clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle. Proving his experience, Y. Falappa scored 0 - 1 for zazza22 after putting some pressure on the opposing defence at a critical moment. 16 minutes into the match, A. Florean came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. After 18 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed U. Brienza to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 2. After this, you could see that the players of zazza22 were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. With the scoreboard showing that 27 minutes had been played, zazza22 nearly put themselves up another goal after D. Adamoli came through on the left. Fortunately for the home crowd, the keeper made the save. Halftime score was 0 - 2. Possession in this half belonged to zazza22, who controlled the ball 60 percent of the time.

F. Pappone left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 46 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. C. Di Tuccio was the replacement. Y. Falappa received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 47 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 3. The zazza22 fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. F. Planchensteiner wanted to play on, but the zazza22 coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 47 minutes into the game by G. Di Lauro. A well placed corner kick from A. Florean was followed by J. Gazda's hard but accurate header. The well executed routine resulted in a goal for zazza22, the score now 0 - 4. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, afragolese73's I. Makara was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 70 minutes. D. Hart Nibbrig was given a chance to change things around. The referee signalled a penalty 85 minutes into the game following an offence which looked like it was outside the box. A. Florean knocked it home to make the score 0 - 5. With 86 minutes played, Y. Falappa nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. zazza22 enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 61 percent of possession.

The most dominating afragolese73 player was without a doubt E. Haji Ebrahimi. D. Hart Nibbrig was a disappointment, however. zazza22's best player was U. Brienza. G. Di Lauro on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 5.