lucia 1 - 0 PuSh-it (382938894)

Dark skies made the crowd of 31646 at LUCICAR STADIUM a little nervous, but the rain held off. Enrico Astorri was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Davide Gius and Craig Davidson. lucia started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Handy - De Maio, Bocco, Herdam, Eekma - Iliev, Cabus, Perrone, Gil Negrete - Nikolov, Torgren.

A 3-4-3 alignment was the formation of choice for PuSh-it. They fielded: Calarco - Borel, Llambias, Jurovčák - Mobilia, Ostrovski, Rullmann, Gaisita - Bertrán, Guinart, Babyshev.

PuSh-it seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. Central attacks were the recipe of the day for PuSh-it, as they moved the ball from the wings to the middle with startling regularity. 18 minutes into the game, M. Ostrovski almost gave the visitors the lead, as he clipped a delicate lob over the keeper, but the ball glanced harmlessly off the crossbar. The referee showed PuSh-it's I. Bertrán the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. M. Torgren gave lucia 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 I. Eekma had a fantastic opportunity to put lucia up another goal 31 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. The teams went for the halftime break at 1 - 0. lucia claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 52 percent.

After 59 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by S. Nikolov might have resulted in another goal for lucia. However, M. Calarco made a spectacular save. lucia's I. Eekma saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 76 minutes. F. De Maio unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by lucia, with 52 percent of the ball.

S. Nikolov performed admirably for lucia. On the other hand, D. Handy's play was disheartening. PuSh-it's best player was M. Ostrovski. However, V. Mobilia made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 1 - 0.