Tiesini 2 - 1 Sporting (382970959)

The crowd of 16105 turning up at Tiesini Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Fortunat Root was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Per Vanto and Rene Jarke. Tiesini tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Kuhn - Cordeiro, Dürsteler, Marsellés - Iragui, Julve, Ulanicki, Drabiniak, Pereira - Bar Cendón, Ferré.

Sporting decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Starters: Miočić - de Oliveira, Storkow, Shpyrka - Natov, Maestra, Planas, Corn, Corredoiras - Chaparoski, Mecca.

Today, Tiesini's strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. L. Cordeiro really should have scored when he was chosen by fate to confront a wide open goal following a great play by L. Drabiniak after a corner. Sporting had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 29 minutes in when G. Chaparoski came up alone against H. Kuhn who managed a block. After 30 minutes, Sporting's P. Mecca made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1. J. Ferré's speed was clear to see after 33 minutes, as he darted down the wing and released L. Bar Cendón who placed the ball into the back of the net to make the score 1 - 1. The home side put themselves ahead 2 - 1 after 34 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from J. Ferré, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. With 43 minutes played, the visitors could have drawn level after G. Maestra came through the middle, but his kick went wide. Sporting's G. Chaparoski was shown a yellow card after 44 minutes for slicing down an opponent. G. Shpyrka didn't let the weather get him down and made some great moves on the pitch in spite of the rain. The teams went for the halftime break at 2 - 1. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Sporting, with 54 percent of the ball.

The coach of Tiesini was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 50 minutes, F. Dan came on for P. Iragui. A cross coming in on the right hand side left Á. de Oliveira alone in front of the goal after 52 minutes but his shot was woeful. J. Planas came close to levelling the score 60 minutes into the game, as he was set up with a through ball coming in from the left, but his shot hit the post. Sporting's right side looked dangerous 72 minutes in, but H. Kuhn made a good save on G. Chaparoski's hard shot to the top corner. Content with how the game was proceeding, the Tiesini coach let Z. Dumortier replace L. Ulanicki after 79 minutes. G. Pereira could have put Tiesini up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 81 minutes. Coming through the middle Á. de Oliveira almost scored the equaliser for Sporting after 84 minutes, but H. Kuhn made an excellent save, tipping the awkwardly curled shot past the post. An equalising goal seemed certain after 86 minutes when P. Mecca attacked down the left wing, but H. Kuhn just managed to make a save to keep the ball out of the net. Possession in this half belonged to Sporting, who controlled the ball 55 percent of the time.

The most dominating Tiesini player was without a doubt J. Ferré. On the other hand, Z. Dumortier's play was disheartening. Sporting's best player was J. Planas. However, N. Natov made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 2 - 1.