FRANANA 4 - 1 Steel (383066730)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and HISPALIS saw a crowd turnout of 11776. Rasmus Öhrdahl was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Alberto Aceña and Dawid Zaliński. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for FRANANA. The following players had been chosen: Claesson - Adams, Buckley, Cerisier - Kopili, Vecchi, Rostocker, Damianakos, Jas - Bergamin, Mormile.

Steel started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: 後藤 (Goto) - Higuero, Zaķis, Perronnet - Capriglione, Ecetes, Méndez Mercado, Lisby, Lamas - Gareev, Van Den Haute.

Pressing was the tactic of the day for FRANANA. Steel tried to focus their attacks down the middle. FRANANA could have put themselves ahead after 9 minutes but C. Bergamin missed a volley shot on a ball coming in from the right. Almost all the way down to the corner flag, FRANANA's M. Jas somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for C. Bergamin, who struck for 1 - 0. M. Mormile should probably have put his team up another goal after 12 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by P. 後藤 (Goto) kept the visitors in the game. 18 minutes in, Steel's C. Capriglione received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. FRANANA were forced into a substitution as F. Buckley couldn't continue due to some rough treatment, forcing S. Komarnicki to come in off the bench. Things were deteriorating for the away team as FRANANA scored another to make it 2 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for Y. Damianakos after 31 minutes. After this, you could see that the players of FRANANA were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. With 33 minutes played, FRANANA put themselves up 3 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to C. Bergamin, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. It was 3 - 0 at the break. FRANANA had most of the ball, with 64 percent of possession.

L. Cerisier had a fantastic opportunity to put FRANANA up another goal 50 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. In an effort to secure the lead, FRANANA changed their tactic after 53 minutes. FRANANA's J. Claesson had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 62 minutes having been played. F. Ostos was the replacement. FRANANA managed to extend their lead to 4 - 0 when M. Jas cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. Steel were great at switching from defence to attack, and after 75 minutes, M. Lisby swept through the middle on a counterattack, making the score 4 - 1. The FRANANA players could smell victory in the air. M. Jas wasn't in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for L. Oderda after 76 minutes. FRANANA claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 59 percent.

FRANANA's best player was A. Vecchi. However, F. Ostos made a disastrous appearance. A. Gareev performed admirably for Steel. R. Higuero on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 1.