Turutas 1 - 3 rivendell (382886112)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 63920 had shown up at La Cornamusa for the match. Nikos Tsarouchitis was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gastón Tomás Velasco and Oswald Schredl. Turutas tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players took the field: Mato - Verrept, Navarro, Corujeira - Huibregtse, Murillo, Benages, Delle Fave, Helzenlichter - Foral, Alagón.

rivendell decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. The following players had been chosen: Espadañero - Romppainen, Bērziņš, Silvino - Cuartas, Ferrer, Crispim, Fuster, Capritti - Wilstra, Salmen.

Today, Turutas's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. rivendell were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. Q. Fuster had a good try after 9 minutes, coming in on a fine move from the left, but the ball went wide. Turutas's K. Helzenlichter was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 11 minutes. At 12 minutes played, E. Foral came in from the right with the intention of giving Turutas the lead, but his rocket of a shot rattled the crossbar. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, J. Navarro got himself booked. The manager of Turutas was not happy. rivendell's S. Wilstra gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 34 minutes with a superb strike from the right. It was obvious that Turutas had instructions to attack on the wings instead of in the middle. rivendell had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. With 42 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed Q. Fuster of rivendell to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 2. Turutas had a brilliant opportunity to reply as C. Huibregtse received a high ball from the right, striking the ball in the air. Only A. Espadañero's reflexes saved him. 43 minutes into the match, V. Salmen came through the middle and almost added to his team's lead, but the shot went wide. 44 minutes in, rivendell's V. Salmen received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. There was concern in the stands when, at the 44 minute mark, Turutas's J. Navarro hit the ground hard, but he refused the attention of the trainer and rejoined his teammates on the pitch. 0 - 2 was the halftime score. rivendell claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 52 percent.

The Turutas coach was desperate to reverse his team's fortunes in the game, and ordered his team to change strategy. Attacking on the wings was the choice for rivendell, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. After 55 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed S. Wilstra to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 3. E. Delle Fave tried to get a goal back for Turutas but despite all his hard work down the right, he just couldn't complete the move. After 60 minutes, the rivendell players received new instructions from their manager on how to keep in control of the game. Turutas were determined to attack on the wing and their central attempts were constantly abandoned in favour of the wings. Turutas reduced the lead to 1 - 3 with 68 minutes on the clock when E. Foral got the best of a ball floated in from the left. 69 minutes into the game, C. Huibregtse had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came P. Gottstål. After 75 minutes, Turutas used a short break in the game to take new instructions from their coach. The coach of rivendell was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 89 minutes, M. Dalbo came on for V. Salmen. The rivendell players could smell victory in the air. S. Wilstra wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for M. Egelmeers after 89 minutes. Content with how the game was proceeding, the rivendell coach let V. Guelton replace F. Cuartas after 89 minutes. Turutas had most of the ball, with 51 percent of possession.

A. Murillo performed admirably for Turutas. P. Gottstål was a disappointment, however. rivendell's best player was F. Crispim. M. Egelmeers turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 1 - 3.