olivense 3 - 1 Riera (383123692)

The crowd of 12800 turning up at puma today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Thomas MacConachie was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Kerwin Rohrmaier and Patrick David Jeitler. olivense had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Kohoutek - Duany, Predebon, Molins - Gyimesi, Cassano, Viamonte, Budiño, Piękoś - Reile, Pocinho.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Riera. The following players took the field: Pengel - Rottmooser, Anisio, Roemer - Roelvink, Götzer, Leeflang, Vlad, Chiuselli - Sousa Gaspar, Oláh.

The strategy for Riera was to use their ability to press. After 31 minutes, Riera's H. Götzer made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1. The muddy pitch made the game a gritty affair, which seemed to suit M. Gyimesi just fine. 0 - 1 was the halftime score. olivense claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 61 percent.

Due to some great work on the right wing olivense's T. Duany was able to even the score after 54 minutes to make the score 1 - 1. H. Götzer was uncomfortable with the soggy pitch as he couldn't move the ball around with his usual grace. It was a bad day for the usually speedy M. Rottmooser. The mud seemed to slow him down. Some great play up the middle by olivense led to a chance for M. Budiño to score after 67 minutes, but the shot hit the crossbar. 79 minutes in, olivense's M. Gyimesi received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. The home side put themselves ahead 2 - 1 after 80 minutes courtesy of a breakthrough from T. Duany, who scored with a stunning volley following a cross from the right wing. olivense solidified their lead at the 81 minute mark, as M. Reile dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 3 - 1. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by olivense, with 68 percent of the ball.

olivense's best player was D. Viamonte. However, I. Molins made a disastrous appearance. Z. Oláh performed admirably for Riera. C. Pengel turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 3 - 1.