morlans66 0 - 1 OLI (382900764)

Dark skies made the crowd of 40000 at morlans66 Arena a little nervous, but the rain held off. Hennes Kortenhof was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Pancrazio Fagà and Roland Mathiasson. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for morlans66. Lineup: Sánchez-Arjona - Palumbo, dos Anjos, Imbuia - Panepinto, Diniz, Mariuki, Fontana, Bottlik - Fellersmann, Wybraniec.

OLI started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Uriszar - Gamboa, MacRuer, Buzabaliao - Stan, Cruz Monteiro, Rodrigues, Karnezis, Zäch - Sirocchi, Morita.

The home crowd was not impressed by the fancy moves of OLI's K. Karnezis after 8 minutes. He converted a pass from the left for a goal, resulting in the visitors taking the 0 - 1 lead. The referee showed OLI's P. Sirocchi the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. F. Fontana was just a finger's breadth away from an equaliser for morlans66 with a strike from the left, but E. Uriszar managed to ward the shot off for a corner. A. Imbuia charged down the left and had a wonderful opportunity to score the equaliser for morlans66, but the shot went well wide of the goal. morlans66's Í. dos Anjos got himself booked for a foul. 0 - 1 was the halftime score. morlans66 had most of the ball, with 58 percent of possession.

After 67 minutes, H. Fellersmann got through on the right and was very close to equalising for the home side, but didn't get the shot away. The bench was restless, and with 70 minutes passed morlans66's coach gave P. Osička the opportunity the player had been hoping for. B. Bottlik reluctantly left the field. 77 minutes into the game, S. Diniz had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came B. Kolský. OLI's S. Rodrigues left the field after 80 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was E. Gutiérrez. With 86 minutes played, after a good run down the left, P. Osička went down looking for a penalty after a challenge from the visitors' right fullback, but the referee waved play on, and later warned him for diving. morlans66 tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play. After 89 minutes, morlans66's H. Fellersmann fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That's the spirit! morlans66 enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 60 percent of possession.

The most dominating morlans66 player was without a doubt D. Mariuki. P. Osička turned in a dismal performance, however. Most important OLI player was T. Morita. On the other hand, M. Zäch's play was disheartening. The match ends 0 - 1.