Belisama 2 - 1 PAVONI (381829654)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 20815 at Ara Lunae today. Hermelindo Romano was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Miłosz Kowaleczko and Kilian Chatelain. Belisama tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Namzet - Szviták, Clarke, Träger - Andersen, Breitwieser, Bratu, Zagato, Knutsson - Irelli, Gauthier.

PAVONI had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Allegaert - Hemmes, Masieris, Acreano, Ivičič - Camera, Alcobé, Della Bartola, Eibling - Esposito, Raposeiro.

Belisama clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle. PAVONI tried to focus their attacks down the middle. PAVONI took the lead 7 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. A. Esposito was the scorer. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave V. Ivičič from PAVONI a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 14 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! After 26 minutes, J. Zagato got through on the right and was very close to equalising for the home side, but didn't get the shot away. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, L. Camera got himself booked. The manager of PAVONI was not happy. Belisama tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play. It was 0 - 1 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Belisama, with 64 percent of the ball.

No matter how hard he tried, A. Irelli just couldn't get his shot past the visitors' right side defence after 53 minutes. The crowd roared in delight as N. Gauthier finished off a spectacular series of passes through the middle to even the score for Belisama 56 minutes into the match. 1 - 1. The home side put themselves ahead 2 - 1 after 60 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from J. Knutsson, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. Belisama's A. Irelli saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 64 minutes. Belisama claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 68 percent.

Most important Belisama player was A. Irelli. On the other hand, B. Namzet's play was disheartening. PAVONI's top performer was clearly N. Raposeiro. J. Allegaert on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 1.