Dea Thai 0 - 6 Kursaal (381662655)

Clouds darkened the skies at ۩ Neverending ∞ Jatukam ۩ as 36311 spectators turned up for the match. Leonard Buil was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Henk van Wanrooij and Hubert Guillas. A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Dea Thai. Lineup: Spanu - Scaldaferri, Zazzetta - Meneghini, Daniele, Striano, Mulazzani, Ciambrone - Biagi, Fundusu, Moscardelli.

Kursaal started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. The following players took the field: Bowman - Bonnink, Marghella - Matejík, Oberhuber, Macheritsas, Polojärvi, Lanzani - Lepp, Ermiye, Godoy.

A. Lepp would have preferred to play on, but his coach decided otherwise. I. Ibn-Latif entered the game for Kursaal as the match clock showed 1 minutes. 1 minutes into the match, the referee signalled for a Kursaal substitution. F. Houli came on for R. Godoy. After 11 minutes, Kursaal put themselves up 0 - 1, as I. Ibn-Latif finished off a strike from the left with a real cannonball of a shot. After 20 minutes of game time, M. Ermiye had an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors' lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but P. Spanu was in the right place and tipped the ball over for a corner. The visitors added to their lead 21 minutes into the game, after a sensational penalty kick by Kursaal's M. Ermiye slid just past the home keeper. 0 - 2. At this point, it was obvious that the players of Kursaal lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. With 22 minutes played, Kursaal put themselves up 0 - 3 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was F. Houli. 0 - 3 was the halftime score. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Kursaal, with 59 percent of the ball.

I. Ibn-Latif wanted to play on, but the Kursaal coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 55 minutes into the game by G. Bernardo. Kursaal increased their lead after 70 minutes when M. Polojärvi broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 4, much to the home crowd's dismay. After 73 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for F. Houli who increased Kursaal's lead to 0 - 5. The home crowd was not impressed when C. Macheritsas came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 79 minutes. Kursaal were now up 0 - 6. M. Marghella of Kursaal received a yellow card after 79 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. 81 minutes into the match, C. Macheritsas came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. Kursaal had most of the ball, with 61 percent of possession.

Most important Dea Thai player was F. Biagi. On the other hand, G. Zazzetta's play was disheartening. Kursaal's best player was F. Houli. T. Matejík on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 6.