6887 spectators had come to
Stadionu this cloudy day.
Uros Kairasuo was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Kevin Shannon and
Vilnius Dauderys.
tZi'oBagInAtze tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination.
They fielded: Aldoiu - Căprăroiu, Enăşoni, Petrin, Motolea - Tăcutu, Dihoru, Vlaicu, Noană - Ghinea, Cărăuş.
Olimpia started off with a 2-5-3 lineup.
The following players had been chosen: Simion - Racu, Opris - Pãduraru, Gruyters, Rosca, Popescu, Broeils - Oiţă, Bilan, Birişan.
After 6 minutes, Olimpia's
A. Rosca made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1.
With 23 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed
T. Oiţă of Olimpia to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 2.
A drive down the left side allowed
D. Pãduraru to get in close and score another goal for Olimpia after 25 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 3.
After this, you could see that the players of Olimpia were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals.
Olimpia increased their lead after 29 minutes when
T. Oiţă broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 4, much to the home crowd's dismay.
After 32 minutes, tZi'oBagInAtze's
D. Noană fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit!
39 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 5 as
T. Oiţă finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick.
That made three goals for
T. Oiţă and he was marked down for the hat trick.
The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 5.
Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Olimpia, with 78 percent of the ball.
In the lead, Olimpia adjusted their style of play with 50 minutes gone.
With 57 minutes played,
I. Racu nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar.
With 59 minutes played, Olimpia put themselves up 0 - 6 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was
M. Broeils.
After 63 minutes, Olimpia's
A. Rosca burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 7.
T. Oiţă of Olimpia took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 74 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 8.
Olimpia had to make a substitution after 80 minutes.
D. Pãduraru limped off the field and was replaced by
陳. 豪山 (Haoshan) .
T. Oiţă received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 81 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 9. The Olimpia fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early.
Content with how the game was proceeding, the Olimpia coach let
E. Sesto replace
I. Popescu after 87 minutes.
F. Opris wanted to play on, but the Olimpia coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 88 minutes into the game by
T. Mileder.
Olimpia had most of the ball, with 82 percent of possession.
A. Cărăuş performed admirably for tZi'oBagInAtze.
D. Aldoiu turned in a dismal performance, however.
Olimpia's best player was
E. Sesto.
On the other hand,
I. Racu's play was disheartening.
The match ends 0 - 9.