Bianca 6 - 2 Isp79 (381724814)

Dark skies made the crowd of 22501 at Lux Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Ville Tuovila was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Felipe Campomanes and Axel Hövelmann. Bianca had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Heimsod - Maiquez, Villamayor - Stacherczak, Tricarico, Antonen, Di Ninno, Barbosa - De Calice, Shariff, Lanzotti.

Isp79 decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players took the field: Hellfeld - Biedermann, Slávik, Faris - Zopp, Otávka, Rauhaus, Crnovršanin, Salomoni - Hofland, Tymchina.

Isp79 saw most attack opportunities on the wings. After a savage shot that could only be parried by the keeper, J. Hofland demonstrated his experience by being in just the right place to slot home the rebound. His goal for Isp79 16 minutes into the match made the score 0 - 1. No matter how hard he tried, M. Di Ninno just couldn't get his shot past the visitors' right side defence after 17 minutes. With 24 minutes played, after a good run down the left, M. Shariff went down looking for a penalty after a challenge from the visitors' right fullback, but the referee waved play on, and later warned him for diving. A well placed corner kick from A. Tricarico was followed by F. Stacherczak's hard but accurate header. The well executed routine resulted in a goal for Bianca, the score now 1 - 1. After 31 minutes, M. Shariff came in from the right, feinted, then sped past the off-balance defender to make the score 2 - 1, giving Bianca the lead. C. Salomoni of Isp79 was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. A. Barbosa increased the lead for Bianca to 3 - 1, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! 3 - 1 was the score after the first half. Bianca enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 53 percent of possession.

Some lightning fast two foot dribbles by S. Lanzotti left V. Biedermann way behind after 65 minutes, but the shot was just wide. Isp79 fought on and, after 68 minutes, P. Tymchina was able to reduce the deficit to 3 - 2 after some excellent moves on the right side were finished off with an incredibly clever chip. Bianca managed to extend their lead to 4 - 2 when S. Lanzotti cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. Isp79 had a fair chance to reply after 80 minutes due to some fine moves down the left, but in the end P. Tymchina was slow to keep up with the play and was unable to make it into the penalty box to apply a finish. After 82 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and M. Shariff gave the Bianca supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 5 - 2. After this, you could see that the players of Bianca were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, F. Stacherczak got himself booked. The manager of Bianca was not happy. With 85 minutes played, the excellent ball from the wing by Bianca's F. Stacherczak reached D. De Calice's head, and he is not one to miss such an opportunity - 6 - 2. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Bianca, with 53 percent of the ball.

M. Shariff performed admirably for Bianca. J. Antonen on the other hand, had a terrible day. Isp79's top performer was clearly J. Hofland. However, C. Salomoni made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 6 - 2.