elbec 0 - 10 Megara (381788416)

12000 punters turned up at Da Elbec i tifosi li senti! Forza under 20!, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Juan Martín Olivieri was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Florin Burghelea and David Selby. elbec tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players took the field: Vigetti - Thronicke, Farnesi, Ceccanti, Tarantino - Mazzucco, Spaletta, Lazzerini, Di Luca - Simeone, Biavaschi.

Megara started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: De Osti - Routsopoulos, Zatoński, Dupák - de Prada, Selvig, Versloot, Camfullos, Türkyılmaz - Vatrachki, Subijana.

With 6 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. V. Selvig put the ball away for 0 - 1. G. Subijana of Megara took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 13 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 2. Megara's E. de Prada was dominating his wing and kept sending fine balls into the opposition's box - G. Subijana managed to volley one of them into the net to make it 0 - 3 after 15 minutes. K. Zatoński was, after 17 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors' lead with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the centre, but the home side's keeper G. Vigetti made the save. 23 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 4 as R. Camfullos finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. Some fine movement on the left led to a Megara goal after 28 minutes, making it 0 - 5. M. Dupák was noted down as the scorer. By now, the players in Megara felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. Halftime score was 0 - 5. Megara had most of the ball, with 91 percent of possession.

After 49 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for V. Selvig who increased Megara's lead to 0 - 6. With 53 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed G. Subijana of Megara to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 7. At that, G. Subijana was noted down for a hat trick! 63 minutes into the game, Megara were awarded a penalty and V. Selvig was able to increase the visitors' lead to 0 - 8 rolling the ball in by the right post. By then V. Selvig had scored three goals - a hat trick! After 65 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed G. Subijana to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 9. A drive down the left side allowed E. de Prada to get in close and score another goal for Megara after 77 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 10. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Megara, with 92 percent of the ball.

The most dominating elbec player was without a doubt R. Farnesi. On the other hand, G. Vigetti's play was disheartening. Megara's top performer was clearly R. Camfullos. E. De Osti turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 0 - 10.