Srivijaya 8 - 1 Inlandsche (380759916)

Dark skies made the crowd of 51437 at Ini Kandang Kito a little nervous, but the rain held off. François Julmy was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Ronaldo Good and Arseniy Borovlev. Srivijaya had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Tassotti - Gozzi, Vaahtera, Kreft - Pritzelwitz, Sumpena, Antares, Iranda, Cabral - von Mossner, Azis.

Inlandsche tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players took the field: Hamzah - Boiangiu, Pincawan, Conticello, Ali - Munthe, Pinem, Noam, Saferi - Mata, Menara.

Today, Inlandsche's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. M. von Mossner's speed is always a threat when he gets a little room to move, and 8 minutes into the match was no different as he broke free of his man to send a delightful through ball to T. Azis who knocked it in for Srivijaya. 1 - 0! Srivijaya put themselves up 2 - 0 when T. Azis broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Srivijaya scored another to make it 3 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for T. Azis after 21 minutes. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for T. Azis. The players of Srivijaya now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. 37 minutes into the game, M. Noam had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came M. Rusli. After 41 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and T. Azis gave the Srivijaya supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 4 - 0. Srivijaya solidified their lead at the 43 minute mark, as L. Kreft dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 5 - 0. Halftime score was 5 - 0. Srivijaya enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 60 percent of possession.

A. Pritzelwitz wanted to play on, but the Srivijaya coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 46 minutes into the game by J. Siiro. A. Gozzi left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 47 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. M. Singh was the replacement. A corner kick created great disorder in the penalty area with a goal nearly scored by M. Rusli. At last, Inlandsche's K. Saferi was able to backheel the ball in. 5 - 1. After 52 minutes, E. Vaahtera put Srivijaya ahead 6 - 1 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. After 68 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by L. Kreft might have resulted in another goal for Srivijaya. However, D. Hamzah made a spectacular save. M. von Mossner increased Srivijaya's lead to 7 - 1 with a penalty spot cannonball. Srivijaya's M. von Mossner was shown a yellow card after 79 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Srivijaya's T. Azis increased the lead to 8 - 1, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 85 minutes. Possession in this half belonged to Srivijaya, who controlled the ball 60 percent of the time.

The most dominating Srivijaya player was without a doubt T. Antares. On the other hand, M. Singh's play was disheartening. Inlandsche's top performer was clearly R. Pinem. M. Rusli on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 8 - 1.