squatrioti 3 - 0 Vassili (381663454)

Clear skies welcomed the 38714 spectators who had made their way to Ardizzone. Lars Mückner was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Reinhard Margery and Bruno Durastante. squatrioti started off with a 4-5-1 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Artuso - Bérard, Frigoli, Talanti, Bassoricci - D'Antoni, Fontseré, Halili, Tita, Fassari - Galvan.

Vassili tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players took the field: Senzanonna - Provenzano, Vorwerk, Gozzi - Criscuolo, Sambin, Gobbo, Aschettino, Griffa - Rosi, Dräxler.

The home crowd breathed a collective sigh of relief when V. Griffa was unable to put the ball in the net after his show of skill down the left 5 minutes into the match. He was seen beating the pitch in frustration at missing such a good chance to give his team the lead! 23 minutes into the game, R. Criscuolo had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came L. Marian. D. Frigoli of squatrioti seemed to be floating in the air as he elegantly headed in to make the score 1 - 0 after a corner kick that was nicely executed by C. Fontseré. E. Galvan's lightning pace was too much for M. Provenzano who could only look on as the squatrioti player blasted one home. 2 - 0. The players of squatrioti now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. A great save by keeper F. Senzanonna after 33 minutes kept the visitors in the game after D. Talanti struck from the left with a real cannonball. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, M. Fassari got himself booked. The manager of squatrioti was not happy. It was 2 - 0 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by squatrioti, with 57 percent of the ball.

62 minutes in, squatrioti's C. Fontseré received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, Vassili's L. Dräxler was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 65 minutes. M. Giglio was given a chance to change things around. V. Griffa became the new Vassili captain. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave A. Gozzi from Vassili a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 79 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! Things were going to get worse for the visitors. M. Fassari squirmed through their central defence after 82 minutes, increasing the lead to 3 - 0. Possession in this half belonged to squatrioti, who controlled the ball 59 percent of the time.

The most dominating squatrioti player was without a doubt E. Galvan. However, C. Fontseré made a disastrous appearance. Vassili's top performer was clearly M. Giglio. L. Marian was a disappointment, however. The match ends 3 - 0.