Cuesta 1 - 3 mendas (382894532)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Cejas Arena saw a crowd turnout of 30709. Nicolae Halagian was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Guillermo Lock and Stav Uziel. Cuesta tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Ugarte - Kallestad, Vilotijević, Cornadó - Vega Collantes, Collu, Muralla, Isidro, Beneitez - Sahli, Pinstrup.

A 4-5-1 alignment was the formation of choice for mendas. Starters: Zhurbin - Herrera, Dahms, Augsburg, Figueroa - La Torre, Vilaseca, Escoiquiz, Ceauşu, Guzmán - Irauregui.

A. Ceauşu had a good opportunity to give mendas the lead as he charged down the right and struck the ball towards the top corner, but the home team's goalkeeper made the save. mendas's D. Figueroa gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 26 minutes with a superb strike from the right. The crowd gasped as E. Ugarte of Cuesta was flattened by an opponent after 30 minutes and had to be carried off. M. Cáceres came in off the bench. M. Cáceres kept the home side in the game with a magnificent save when R. Augsburg delivered an almost perfect free kick to the far post. The visitors' E. Vilaseca took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 38 minutes into the match. 0 - 2 for mendas. 0 - 2 was the score after the first half. mendas enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 59 percent of possession.

A well placed corner kick from S. Vilotijević was followed by J. Cornadó's hard but accurate header. The well executed routine resulted in a goal for Cuesta, the score now 1 - 2. Had it not been for one of the home defenders, A. Ceauşu would have put mendas up another goal 61 minutes into the match with his audacious lob from the right wing. mendas's J. Guzmán made it through the home team's defence on the right hand side 66 minutes into the match. After rounding the keeper, he only had to place the ball in the unguarded goal when a defender slid in and cleared the ball off the line. The home crowd cheered when, after 67 minutes, I. Irauregui's charge up the middle resulted in the keeper making one of his best saves of the day. A drive down the left side allowed A. Ceauşu to get in close and score another goal for mendas after 68 minutes, taking the score to 1 - 3. Possession in this half belonged to mendas, who controlled the ball 63 percent of the time.

The most dominating Cuesta player was without a doubt I. Beneitez. However, M. Cáceres made a disastrous appearance. mendas's top performer was clearly I. Irauregui. R. Augsburg was a disappointment, however. The match ends 1 - 3.