Carteria 2 - 1 Polisportiva (381728923)

The 26364 fans in attendance at La Bombonera were roasting in the hot sun. Izsó Vindisch was the appointed referee with assistance provided by ZhangCai Eng-Leong and Mats Carlsson. Carteria decided to use a 2-5-3 set up. Lineup: Matos - Paakkunainen, Berko - 庭成 (Tingcheng), Kyytsönen, Buge, Troncoso, Happo - Bel, Haberland, Heikurinen.

Polisportiva tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Szlachetko - van Voorthuizen, Boekhoorn, Maier - Pescarolo, Rosato, Fistolera, Broglia, Mascia - Spompato, Ciuffreda.

After some beautiful movement down the left wing, M. Happo scored for Carteria putting them ahead 1 - 0, after 16 minutes. D. Fistolera came close to levelling the score 26 minutes into the game, as he was set up with a through ball coming in from the left, but his shot hit the post. Carteria's G. Haberland increased the lead to 2 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 34 minutes. It was 2 - 0 at the break. Polisportiva claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

With 79 minutes showing on the scoreboard clock, Polisportiva showed some good skill and were able to reduce the score to 2 - 1 when G. Pescarolo got past the home side's central defenders right in front of the goal. S. Boekhoorn made a good effort at breaking through on the right, but the home team's left defence cleared the ball to a corner. The visitors almost came back with an equaliser 87 minutes into the match after a good combination down the middle, but when A. Spompato tried to finish the attack, he couldn't deliver the shot hard enough to seriously challenge the keeper. G. Haberland should probably have put his team up another goal after 88 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by P. Szlachetko kept the visitors in the game. Usually a powerful player on the field, S. Boekhoorn looked kind of pale and tired under the hot sun. Possession in this half belonged to Polisportiva, who controlled the ball 55 percent of the time.

The most dominating Carteria player was without a doubt P. Bel. O. Troncoso on the other hand, had a terrible day. Polisportiva's top performer was clearly G. Broglia. However, P. Szlachetko made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 2 - 1.