Pretender 6 - 0 FK-Ventspils (381540665)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 34252 had shown up at Pretender Arena for the match. Tomasz Hałat was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Guillaume Turck and Hassan Zacharias. Pretender started off with a 5-4-1 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Climent - Grün, Moeslund, Edwards, Nikolashin, Colino - Elstner, Conato, Zadelaar, Iesalnieks - Marinangeli.

FK-Ventspils tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Starters: Juškēns - Bormanis, Smoliński, Akutin, Zemzars - Baumanis, Karpechenkov, Sudmalis, Doļuks - Tyulnev, Skarstāns.

After 17 minutes, V. Marinangeli came in from the right, feinted, then sped past the off-balance defender to make the score 1 - 0, giving Pretender the lead. FK-Ventspils's G. Baumanis was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 23 minutes. With 24 minutes played, Pretender's well-worked indirect free kick caused havoc in the penalty area, and when the ball eventually fell to R. Grün he gleefully slotted the ball home to make it 2 - 0. By now, the players in Pretender felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. Pretender's J. Colino got himself booked for a foul. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Pretender scored another to make it 3 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for C. Zadelaar after 29 minutes. 3 - 0 was the score after the first half. Pretender had most of the ball, with 78 percent of possession.

Z. Zemzars's inexperience was obvious when his continual hesitation to put in a tackle allowed P. Elstner plenty of time to pick an unguarded area of the goal for his shot, marking one for Pretender. 4 - 0. Pretender put themselves up 5 - 0 when P. Elstner broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. After 68 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and C. Zadelaar gave the Pretender supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 6 - 0. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Pretender, with 76 percent of the ball.

C. Zadelaar performed admirably for Pretender. V. Marinangeli on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating FK-Ventspils player was without a doubt I. Tyulnev. On the other hand, H. Juškēns's play was disheartening. The match ends 6 - 0.