nemesisii 4 - 3 Vanquish (380780883)

The crowd of 36042 turning up at nemesis Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Mads Elbæk was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Javier Collado and Abderrachid Omari. The derby had been the talk of Bucureşti all week and fans of both teams could be seen throughout the stadium. nemesisii started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Umarella - Della Mea, Lusuardi, Féraud - van Osnabrugge, Verebes, Dumitrescu, Guba, Senderski - Rácz, Mistral.

Vanquish tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Albu - Axente, Stunz, Stroescu - Simonuti, Lippe, Săvulescu, Luchian, Ganança - Bigdeli, Lucescu.

nemesisii saw most attack opportunities on the wings. After 24 minutes, T. van Osnabrugge came in from the right, feinted, then sped past the off-balance defender to make the score 1 - 0, giving nemesisii the lead. After 29 minutes, the visitors levelled the scores after F. Lippe made it through the middle and struck home to make it 1 - 1. The corner kick from T. Lusuardi was powerfully met by the head of L. Verebes to make the score 2 - 1. nemesisii's E. Senderski had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 39 minutes having been played. M. Granier was the replacement. D. Stroescu didn't let the weather get him down and made some great moves on the pitch in spite of the rain. Z. Rácz could have put nemesisii up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 41 minutes. After 42 minutes, Z. Rácz put nemesisii ahead 3 - 1 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. It was 3 - 1 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by nemesisii, with 52 percent of the ball.

F. Umarella wanted to play on, but the nemesisii coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 46 minutes into the game by C. Camporelli. The bench was restless, and with 46 minutes passed Vanquish's coach gave H. Kamrani the opportunity the player had been hoping for. M. Simonuti reluctantly left the field. As the game started to slip away for Vanquish, the manager decided to change the tactical approach. After 59 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by M. Granier might have resulted in another goal for nemesisii. However, M. Albu made a spectacular save. Ater 77 minutes D. Stroescu seized on an opportunistic attack from the right, and scored for Vanquish making it 3 - 2. nemesisii's X. Mistral increased the lead to 4 - 2, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 78 minutes. V. Lucescu was struggling to make the ball dance with his usual trickery and panache, and the opposing players had little trouble shutting him down in these muddy conditions. With 83 minutes showing on the scoreboard clock, Vanquish showed some good skill and were able to reduce the score to 4 - 3 when D. Bigdeli got past the home side's central defenders right in front of the goal. nemesisii enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 53 percent of possession.

The most dominating nemesisii player was without a doubt Z. Rácz. However, C. Camporelli made a disastrous appearance. Vanquish's top performer was clearly F. Lippe. On the other hand, K. Stunz's play was disheartening. The match ends 4 - 3.