jaccau 0 - 3 Monteverde (380283313)

Dark skies made the crowd of 21561 at jaccau stadium a little nervous, but the rain held off. Moses Vanderstraeten was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Lionel Hagedorn and Luis Segovia. jaccau had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. The following players took the field: Meixner - Hansen, Rønningen, Barber - Vasconcelos, Musiał, Moro, Yding - Vanweersch, De Schryver, Di Venere.

Monteverde started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Starters: Del Borrello - Ferrari, Quisquo, Papalino - Bruschetta, Cambareri, Amico, Blessi, Violante - Restaino, De Francesco.

The head of O. Blessi connected with a corner kick after 23 minutes, and the ball ended up with V. Cambareri of Monteverde who blasted the ball into the net, making the score 0 - 1. After 26 minutes, Monteverde's M. De Francesco burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 2. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, B. Ferrari got himself booked. The manager of Monteverde was not happy. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave T. Yding from jaccau a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 39 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! The home side worked hard to get through the middle and as a result, had a good chance of getting one back as M. Moro tried lifting the ball over keeper D. Del Borrello. Unfortunately, the ball went just over the bar. With 42 minutes played, J. Rønningen was very close to reducing the score for jaccau with a low drive from the left, but a defender stuck his foot out just in the nick of time, blocking the shot to a corner. 0 - 2 was the halftime score. Possession in this half belonged to Monteverde, who controlled the ball 56 percent of the time.

G. Restaino was, after 63 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 L. Meixner made the save. P. Vanweersch almost reduced the deficit, having drawn the entire left side defence away, but the shot went straight into the arms of the goalkeeper. After 83 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for M. De Francesco who increased Monteverde's lead to 0 - 3. After this, you could see that the players of Monteverde were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Monteverde had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

jaccau's top performer was clearly K. De Schryver. On the other hand, C. Barber's play was disheartening. The most dominating Monteverde player was without a doubt G. Restaino. D. Del Borrello on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 3.