Avengers 0 - 6 ACSM (381436405)

20922 spectators arrived at Avengers Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Ivan Ballosera was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Daniel Fuchs-Robettin-Ettel and Raz Ben Yehuda. Avengers decided to use a 4-5-1 set up. Lineup: Bouzón - Hemelík, Sobotík, Ševčík, Sousa Tavares - Aktekin, Mellor, Reinoso, Önsal, Rigaux - Benavente.

ACSM started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Valecce - de Morais, Murdock, Cutrono, Labraña Martinez - Redureau, Mikalajunas, Kozma, Norem - Grigorov, Krzyżok.

Avengers saw most attack opportunities on the wings. Today, ACSM's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. ACSM had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. With 5 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. J. de Morais put the ball away for 0 - 1. Some fine movement on the left led to a ACSM goal after 10 minutes, making it 0 - 2. Á. Kozma was noted down as the scorer. Avengers had to make a substitution after 37 minutes. H. Mellor limped off the field and was replaced by B. Woinar. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 2. ACSM claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 58 percent.

It was obvious that ACSM had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. C. Cutrono increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 3. The Avengers players listened closely to their manager, as he gave new tactical instructions for the team. Unhappy with the result so far in the game, the Avengers manager used a brief break in play after 62 minutes to give the players new directives. After 62 minutes, Avengers used a short break in the game to take new instructions from their coach. The referee signalled a penalty 69 minutes into the game following an offence which looked like it was outside the box. M. Norem knocked it home to make the score 0 - 4. Confident in their lead, ACSM's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. A weary-looking P. Ševčík struggled to keep pace with the advancing attack, but he just didn't have the energy and let ACSM's K. Grigorov through to score, making it 0 - 5. ACSM increased the lead to 0 - 6 as M. Norem scored from the penalty spot, putting the ball in near the top left corner. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by ACSM, with 64 percent of the ball.

Avengers's top performer was clearly A. Benavente. B. Woinar was a disappointment, however. The most dominating ACSM player was without a doubt K. Grigorov. J. de Morais on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 6.