MANDURIA 1 - 6 gladiators (381973793)

Due to an all-day shower, 5351 paying spectators got to see a match on a pitch-turned-bog at U.G. MANDURIA Arena. Alfredo Goñi was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Carlo Udassi and Silvian Rosioru. MANDURIA started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Lanzuisi - Sanavia, Polla, Gilardoni, Barilani - Colangelo, Pistacchi, Pinto, Oppio - Spiniello, Baldassa.

gladiators decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Soliguer - Martins, Abramczyk, Ruzzante - Noethlichs, Boss, Jurka, Brondani, Surdu - 慈帆 (Cifan), Scheller.

For their match strategy, gladiators had decided to use their ability to counter-attack whenever possible. With 15 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. 杨. 慈帆 (Cifan) put the ball away for 0 - 1. With 17 minutes played, A. Surdu nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. MANDURIA's A. Pistacchi was shown a yellow card after 27 minutes for slicing down an opponent. A. Pistacchi really should have scored when he was chosen by fate to confront a wide open goal following a great play by C. Oppio after a corner. After 33 minutes, gladiators's K. Jurka burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 2. MANDURIA caught their opponents out with a clever counterattack down the right wing 35 minutes into the match. C. Oppio was able to finish off the move - 1 - 2. With 36 minutes played, gladiators put themselves up 1 - 3 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was M. Ruzzante. With 37 minutes played, R. Boss of gladiators fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. The teams went for the halftime break at 1 - 3. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by gladiators, with 82 percent of the ball.

The coach of gladiators was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 46 minutes, M. Corazzari came on for H. Noethlichs. G. Polla didn't let the weather get him down and made some great moves on the pitch in spite of the rain. Content with how the game was proceeding, the gladiators coach let 宋. 鑫嘉 (Xinjia) replace R. Scheller after 49 minutes. After 52 minutes, gladiators sent a free kick in high over the penalty box. In what looked like a well-rehearsed move, the ball was headed backwards and reached 宋. 鑫嘉 (Xinjia), who had plenty of space to place a well aimed shot - 1 - 4. The home crowd was not impressed when 宋. 鑫嘉 (Xinjia) came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 64 minutes. gladiators were now up 1 - 5. After this, you could see that the players of gladiators were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. T. Abramczyk came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle. He tried to lift the ball over G. Lanzuisi but overcooked it and hit the bar instead. G. Lanzuisi kept the home side in the game with a magnificent save when T. Abramczyk delivered an almost perfect free kick to the far post. 72 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 1 - 6 as 杨. 慈帆 (Cifan) finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. gladiators claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 85 percent.

MANDURIA's top performer was clearly G. Spiniello. On the other hand, G. Lanzuisi's play was disheartening. R. Boss performed admirably for gladiators. However, M. Ruzzante made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 1 - 6.