Kopaonik 5 - 1 John Galt (382504602)

50712 punters turned up at BOMBONJERA, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Matias Lahenius was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Jörgen Erner and Björn Baron. The derby had been the talk of Beograd all week and fans of both teams could be seen throughout the stadium. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Kopaonik. The following players took the field: Karabach - Varas, Boros, Vlajić, Negri - Nešković, Vukotić, Folha, Džajić - Kourmouzis, Verissimo.

John Galt had chosen a strategic 5-4-1 formation. They fielded: Magnusson - Mićić, Vuković, Labudović, Rafael, Graso - Kereň, Veljić, Gruszkiewicz, Pupka - Allard.

John Galt clearly had decided to counter-attack when they could. After 40 minutes, T. Allard sent the corner kick right to J. Graso who headed it sharply past the keeper. 0 - 1! Some fine passing in the middle of the pitch, carving open the away defence, should have led to a goal for Kopaonik, but T. Kourmouzis's shot went over the bar. Kopaonik's S. Vlajić was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 44 minutes. The head of D. Verissimo connected with a corner kick after 44 minutes, and the ball ended up with D. Folha of Kopaonik who blasted the ball into the net, making the score 1 - 1. 1 - 1 was the score after the first half. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Kopaonik, with 60 percent of the ball.

47 minutes into the match and the home team took a 2 - 1 lead after breaking through on the left. The scorer for Kopaonik was S. Nešković. John Galt needed a fresh pair of legs on the field, and after 49 minutes A. Gruszkiewicz made way for W. Sashidharan. With 49 minutes played, Kopaonik put themselves up 3 - 1 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to D. Verissimo, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Kopaonik scored another to make it 4 - 1 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for D. Folha after 61 minutes. Kopaonik put themselves up 5 - 1 when D. Verissimo broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. After this, you could see that the players of Kopaonik were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Kopaonik claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 59 percent.

Most important Kopaonik player was B. Vukotić. On the other hand, S. Vlajić's play was disheartening. The most dominating John Galt player was without a doubt I. Veljić. I. Labudović on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 5 - 1.