chiavennese 2 - 2 MARTU (381748179)

Dark skies made the crowd of 29157 at via del mera a little nervous, but the rain held off. Paolo Pascoli was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Morten Tingleff and Pyry Pottonen. chiavennese started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Übelacker - Huyvaert, Schaap, Vittorioso - Fontseré, Parcham, Haid, Cifuente, Poch - Encalada, Daškevičius.

MARTU tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Forest - Puglisi, Nieto, Marcotte - Solaque, Thümen, Bazzucchi, Almoina, Doroslovački - Honka, Tozzi.

D. Encalada caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 1 minutes. This gave chiavennese the 1 - 0 lead. The referee showed chiavennese's M. Daškevičius the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. MARTU were forced into a substitution as N. Solaque couldn't continue due to some rough treatment, forcing J. Lemos to come in off the bench. An equalising goal seemed certain after 11 minutes when F. Almoina attacked down the left wing, but F. Übelacker just managed to make a save to keep the ball out of the net. N. Huyvaert should probably have put his team up another goal after 21 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by A. Forest kept the visitors in the game. MARTU's R. Tozzi was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 38 minutes. 1 - 0 was the halftime score. chiavennese claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 51 percent.

chiavennese's D. Encalada was shown a yellow card after 54 minutes for slicing down an opponent. The referee was not popular with the home supporters after he awarded MARTU a controversial penalty after 61 minutes. J. Nieto made no mistake, levelling the score at 1 - 1. MARTU's C. Marcotte managed to lose the defenders as he advanced down the right wing and scored, putting the visitors ahead after 62 minutes. 1 - 2. 69 minutes in, chiavennese's L. Vittorioso received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. A. Forest was the unlucky victim and couldn't continue the game, so MARTU's G. Solcia had to come off the bench. With the clock showing 74 minutes played, P. Haid equalised for chiavennese after curling a free kick around the defensive wall to make the score 2 - 2. Possession in this half belonged to MARTU, who controlled the ball 52 percent of the time.

Most important chiavennese player was M. Daškevičius. D. Encalada was a disappointment, however. The most dominating MARTU player was without a doubt E. Honka. G. Solcia turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 2 - 2.