The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 39184 had shown up at
Mulines Stadium for the match.
Anton-Johann Prieler was the appointed referee with assistance provided by
Peter Magnusson and
Tom Van Hissenhoven.
paluce tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination.
The following players had been chosen: Marena - Boeswald-Reinhardt, Tănăsie, Diotto - Vanhatupa, Frigan, Obradors, Margolfo, Lefebvre - Tormenta, Ingelén.
A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Buriana.
Lineup: Shaboltas - Płóciennik, Riedweg - Parlato, Fusco, Tarantino, Gasbarro, Azpeitia - Steen, Oude Middendorp, Bergamini.
It was an obvious ambition of paluce to use their ability at attacking on the flanks.
Buriana used their skill at pressing to cut off the attack angles of their opponents all over the field.
After 13 minutes of play,
N. Diotto gave the home team a 1 - 0 lead after an attack coming in from the right.
After 15 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and
Â. Tormenta gave the paluce supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0.
After 17 minutes paluce's
J. Vanhatupa contracted a slight foot injury, but didn't want to leave the game.
Buriana certainly deserved a goal after some stunning play down the left, but
A. Azpeitia just wasn't able to finish.
S. Ingelén should probably have put his team up another goal after 30 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by
V. Shaboltas kept the visitors in the game.
After several obvious shirt pulling incidents,
S. Steen got himself booked. The manager of Buriana was not happy.
2 - 0 was the halftime score.
paluce had most of the ball, with 62 percent of possession.
A. Obradors unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide.
With 73 minutes played, paluce put themselves up 3 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to
A. Frigan, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home.
paluce put themselves up 4 - 0 when
S. Ingelén broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake.
Confident in their lead, paluce's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it.
Things were deteriorating for the away team as paluce scored another to make it 5 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for
Â. Tormenta after 77 minutes.
A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of paluce to 6 - 0 as
S. Ingelén finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle.
paluce claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 62 percent.
Most important paluce player was
P. Margolfo.
On the other hand,
A. Marena's play was disheartening.
W. Oude Middendorp performed admirably for Buriana.
G. Parlato on the other hand, had a terrible day.
The match ends 6 - 0.