Brèsa 3 - 2 fortidos (381964363)

Dark skies made the crowd of 12613 at Brixia Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Dietrich Tamilina was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Bruno Pronk and Nick Watschull. Brèsa decided to use a 4-3-3 set up. Starters: Lemut - Coluccia, Pingelshagen, Murru, Aprigliano - Asseburg, Marella, Georget - Mezzetti, Olsson, Corbellini.

fortidos tactics involved an interesting 4-3-3 combination. The following players had been chosen: Tchomogo - Manera, Carusone, Bragone, Nieuwenweg - Frikadelle, Kolthoff, El-Haroun - Giannotti, Del Castello, Anscombe.

Today, Brèsa's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. fortidos mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. After 7 minutes, fortidos's C. Nieuwenweg made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1. Players in Brèsa heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. The crowd was on its feet 8 minutes into the match, as Brèsa's L. Murru found himself unmarked in front of the goal after a dash up the left side. He calmly put away the 1 - 1 equaliser. fortidos had to make a substitution after 8 minutes. Y. Tchomogo limped off the field and was replaced by A. Pettersson. A mistake by the home side's central defence after 18 minutes allowed A. Anscombe to score for fortidos. The scoreboard now read 1 - 2. 1 - 2 was the score after the first half. Brèsa had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

The crowd chanted their encouragement as Brèsa's D. Asseburg came in from the right after 52 minutes and put the ball in the net to level the score at 2 - 2. Brèsa took the lead 56 minutes into the game by 3 - 2, as G. Aprigliano elegantly received a long range pass through the middle, finishing off with a half-volley shot just below the bar. The home side's G. Corbellini came close to extending the lead 75 minutes into the game. His shot came in from the right hand side but A. Pettersson managed to save it with an unbelievable reaction stop. With 76 minutes played, J. Frikadelle of fortidos fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. fortidos had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle attacks. With 77 minutes played, the visitors could have drawn level after M. Del Castello came through the middle, but his kick went wide. fortidos's A. Anscombe had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 80 minutes having been played. I. Lefterache was the replacement. Brèsa claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 54 percent.

Brèsa's top performer was clearly N. Georget. However, B. Lemut made a disastrous appearance. fortidos's best player was M. Del Castello. A. Pettersson turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 3 - 2.