Sporting 3 - 2 kuga (383180163)

A scorching day at Vecilla Arena, where 11789 spectators were in place for today's match. Jurkus Apirubis was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Daniel Forsborn and Elias Natt. Sporting started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Cunchillos - Escales, Gargallo, Mena - Saura, Mari Rosales, Candela, Lagier, Beba - de la Villa, Garrido López.

kuga tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Lineup: Loetz - Leclair, Haide, 民麟 (Minlin), Farris - Helola, Dulin, Bellori, Åhngren - Warkocki, Castellón.

Sporting were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. After 5 minutes a well-practised indirect free kick routine by kuga was easily anticipated by the defenders. The players forward were so well marked, they were left with few viable options. Sporting's S. Beba refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon after 18 minutes. Sporting had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. Sporting fans held their breath as G. Escales scampered down the left side. He successfully avoided all challenges and cracked home the shot for 1 - 0! Attacking on the wings was the choice for Sporting, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. With 33 minutes played, Sporting's L. Mari Rosales almost extended the lead, but his shot from the left glanced off the top of the bar to fall behind the net. Sporting put themselves up 2 - 0 when L. Mari Rosales broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. 2 - 0 was the score after the first half. Sporting had most of the ball, with 58 percent of possession.

kuga managed to reduce the score to 2 - 1 as K. Warkocki finished off a well-played combination from the left, easily carving through the defence. S. Farris wasn't much help defensively. His energy-consuming forward runs proved quite costly in the oppressive heat. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Sporting scored another to make it 3 - 1 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for J. Saura after 62 minutes. The players of Sporting now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, J. Åhngren got himself booked. The manager of kuga was not happy. Sporting put in a good effort on the right, but D. Garrido López saw his volley fly wide of the mark 82 minutes into the game. kuga were desperate to get a goal back and pushed forward through the middle 84 minutes into the game. After a scramble in the box, the ball dropped to E. Bellori, who smashed it home to make the score 3 - 2. Possession in this half belonged to Sporting, who controlled the ball 56 percent of the time.

J. Saura performed admirably for Sporting. J. Cunchillos turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating kuga player was without a doubt K. Warkocki. J. Dulin on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 2.