Puerto 1 - 5 knvb-ajax (380437334)

The 12373 spectators at Ewaldo Klein were in for an afternoon of sunshine. Bent Norberg was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Suthiwat Wongsupan and Valerio Trucillo. Puerto had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Tälli - Pareja, Barros, Raimondi - Dávila, Luckeheide, Naghash, Armaza, Bachar - Zegers, Carretero.

knvb-ajax tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players took the field: López - Fontaine, Portal, Millanao - Quiroga, Seymur, Jimenez, Sotomayor, Aniñir - Pineda, Arrechea.

Today, Puerto's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. 2 minutes had elapsed when a great chance for Puerto to take the lead after a good cross from the right found D. Carretero alone with the keeper, but he chipped it to the wrong side of the post. 0 - 1 was the score with 20 minutes played, after D. Millanao cut through the central defence and chipped home a goal for knvb-ajax. Puerto's A. Armaza left the field after 21 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was M. Sutheran. Puerto's F. Dávila had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 23 minutes having been played. L. Falcón was the replacement. J. Jimenez increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 2. Puerto made it 1 - 2 as L. Pareja got a touch to the floated corner kick and flicked the ball to M. Sutheran who whipped a low drive in off the far post. With 33 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed J. Seymur of knvb-ajax to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 1 - 3. Halftime score was 1 - 3. knvb-ajax enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 72 percent of possession.

A. Pineda of knvb-ajax took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 48 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 1 - 4. The sunny day didn't make things easy for O. Bachar who didn't seem his usual powerful self on the pitch. Some fine movement on the left led to a knvb-ajax goal after 85 minutes, making it 1 - 5. J. Seymur was noted down as the scorer. 87 minutes into the game, knvb-ajax worked the left side industriously creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but just couldn't apply the finishing touch. Possession in this half belonged to knvb-ajax, who controlled the ball 68 percent of the time.

Most important Puerto player was D. Carretero. However, L. Falcón made a disastrous appearance. knvb-ajax's top performer was clearly C. Sotomayor. J. Portal turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 1 - 5.