club 2 - 2 Team (380881004)

16367 fans braved the pouring rain at aisberg arena. Ger Sanders was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Till Collaud and Augie Boonstra. club decided to use a 5-4-1 set up. Starters: Lungu - Prigoană, Bermejo, Esefeld, Conté, Diamandiev - Cavadzadə, Erceanu, Ioniţă, Stoia - Sandu.

Team started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Tănăsoiu - Yuschenko, Gheorghe, Alfano - Rădoi, Grohar, Lidsle, Florea - Onica, Cáceres, Wölfler.

Counter-attacking seemed to be the preferred strategy of club. After 18 minutes of play, A. Stoia gave the home team a 1 - 0 lead after an attack coming in from the right. With 25 minutes played, club put themselves up 2 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to G. Ioniţă, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. At this point, it was obvious that the players of club lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. N. Rădoi didn't let the weather get him down and made some great moves on the pitch in spite of the rain. Team's C. Lidsle got himself booked for a foul. A great save by keeper V. Tănăsoiu after 36 minutes kept the visitors in the game after C. Esefeld struck from the left with a real cannonball. Team made it 2 - 1 as H. Cáceres got a touch to the floated corner kick and flicked the ball to L. Grohar who whipped a low drive in off the far post. A. Stoia could have put club up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 39 minutes. 2 - 1 was the halftime score. club claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 54 percent.

R. Lungu wanted to play on, but the club coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 46 minutes into the game by P. Kratzer. The coach of club was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 70 minutes, S. Mackenzie came on for C. Cavadzadə. The visitors kept the pressure on to tie the game when, after 73 minutes, A. Gheorghe broke through the centre and found himself alone with the keeper. P. Kratzer made a great block, though. club's S. Bermejo was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 74 minutes. The club players could smell victory in the air. R. Sandu wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for P. Wichmann after 75 minutes. The bench was restless, and with 80 minutes passed Team's coach gave G. Leonte the opportunity the player had been hoping for. C. Alfano reluctantly left the field. 81 minutes in, club's P. Wichmann received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. G. Diamandiev's inexperience was obvious when his continual hesitation to put in a tackle allowed C. Lidsle plenty of time to pick an unguarded area of the goal for his shot, marking one for Team. 2 - 2. Team's A. Gheorghe could have put the guests one up after 83 minutes after chasing a through ball from the right, but P. Kratzer was as fast as a snake, grabbing the ball from under his nose. The referee showed Team's N. Rădoi the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. club could have put themselves ahead after 87 minutes but C. Esefeld missed a volley shot on a ball coming in from the right. Team had most of the ball, with 52 percent of possession.

Most important club player was S. Bermejo. P. Kratzer on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Team player was without a doubt M. Wölfler. On the other hand, F. Florea's play was disheartening. The match ends 2 - 2.