Tavisa 2 - 7 artistas (382887778)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 37799 to Tavisa Vallès Arena. Viktor Toebosch was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Balionis Burškys and Anders Hultwald. Tavisa decided to use a 2-5-3 set up. Lineup: Vial - Pöll, Höhle - Adsuar, Pihlborg, Tamudo, Álvarez, Bascompta - Larragoitia, Serrano Crespo, Valladares.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for artistas. The following players had been chosen: Blanco - Mangstl, Ciguri, Celayeta - de Bever, Puiggermanal, Gual, Aceijas, Matos - Medih, Vernet.

Tavisa mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. M. Serrano Crespo gave Tavisa the lead as he successfully challenged the guests' central defenders, then slotted the ball into the bottom corner, giving the keeper no chance. 1 - 0 The visiting team's J. de Bever was able to score the 1 - 1 equaliser with a header 32 minutes into the match, after some good work on the right. With 36 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. G. Medih put the ball away for 1 - 2. Tavisa's S. Pöll had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 37 minutes having been played. N. Brodin was the replacement. With the crowd on their feet chanting wildly, some great moves down the right hand side after 38 minutes gave Tavisa a wonderful opportunity to level the score, and P. Valladares stepped up to the challenge. 2 - 2 The terraces were silenced after 39 minutes when artistas's S. Aceijas put the guests ahead 2 - 3, following an attack on the right. It was 2 - 3 at the break. artistas had most of the ball, with 51 percent of possession.

G. Matos made one of his many fine passes from the wing into the middle 56 minutes into the match. G. Medih bravely attempted to execute a diving header and the ball was met firmly with his forehead for artistas. 2 - 4. Had it not been for one of the home defenders, G. Medih would have put artistas up another goal 61 minutes into the match with his audacious lob from the right wing. artistas increased their lead after 62 minutes when J. Gual broke through on the right, upping the score to 2 - 5, much to the home crowd's dismay. The players of artistas now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. With 69 minutes played, artistas put themselves up 2 - 6 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was G. Medih. That made three goals for G. Medih and he was marked down for the hat trick. After 76 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for L. Puiggermanal who increased artistas's lead to 2 - 7. Possession in this half belonged to artistas, who controlled the ball 58 percent of the time.

P. Valladares performed admirably for Tavisa. On the other hand, F. Adsuar's play was disheartening. artistas's top performer was clearly G. Medih. G. Matos on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 7.