Golondrina 2 - 6 cerrilvanya (380481364)

Dark skies made the crowd of 12000 at Cacho Stadium a little nervous, but the rain held off. Gennady Okulov was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Sascha Westhoff-Rilke and Federico Barboni. Everyone was excited about the upcoming Provincia de Buenos Aires derby and the crowd was divided evenly. A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Golondrina. The following players had been chosen: Fedorchea - Halme, Márquez - Militello, Przetacki, Larsson, Viheri, Naya - Papa, Golubev, Bühler.

cerrilvanya started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. Lineup: Menichetti - Crisci, Strunz - Pereda, Vallejos, Costanzo, Stame, Verhaert - Eifeler, Barbosa, Orlicki.

Golondrina had a good opportunity to take the lead as S. Bühler came up the left side, but he struck the ball weakly and it went straight into the arms of F. Menichetti. The cannonball from 35 metres by E. Vallejos of cerrilvanya was an impressive sight, but didn't make it into the net. 9 minutes into the match and the home team took a 1 - 0 lead after breaking through on the left. The scorer for Golondrina was Z. Przetacki. The visitors didn't give in and, after 23 minutes, J. Orlicki got through the home side's central line of defence, rolling in the equaliser to make it 1 - 1. A badly positioned defensive formation on a free kick after 24 minutes led to cerrilvanya's G. Costanzo giving the visitors the lead 1 - 2. After 25 minutes cerrilvanya's J. Orlicki contracted a slight foot injury, but didn't want to leave the game. It was 1 - 2 at the break. cerrilvanya enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 58 percent of possession.

Content with how the game was proceeding, the cerrilvanya coach let C. Gorosito replace T. Eifeler after 46 minutes. The cerrilvanya players could smell victory in the air. J. Pereda wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for F. Henri after 46 minutes. After 60 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for G. Costanzo who increased cerrilvanya's lead to 1 - 3. P. Stame couldn't do anything to stop the technically gifted M. Papa as he dodged past on his way to scoring a wonderful goal for Golondrina - 2 - 3! The visitors' E. Vallejos took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 75 minutes into the match. 2 - 4 for cerrilvanya. J. Orlicki of cerrilvanya took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 78 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 2 - 5. The home crowd was not impressed when P. Stame came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 81 minutes. cerrilvanya were now up 2 - 6. Confident in their lead, cerrilvanya's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by cerrilvanya, with 61 percent of the ball.

Most important Golondrina player was B. Golubev. V. Fedorchea was a disappointment, however. cerrilvanya's best player was J. Orlicki. E. Vallejos on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 6.