INGENIO 8 - 0 rubens (383200529)

Clouds darkened the skies at F.C. INGENIO STADIUM as 20000 spectators turned up for the match. Iuliu Marin was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Dubravko Bašetić and Walter Giorgio Arcostro. INGENIO decided to use a 3-4-3 set up. The following players had been chosen: Roc - Michailovas, Chapari, Häfliger - Hjertquist, Claramunt, Fuentes Ros, Baggen - Amiudal, Wuidar, Keinan.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for rubens. The following players took the field: Cenarbe - Mariano, Macedo, Wybrandt, Laukmanis - Wong, Tufescu, Socías, Gavrilescu - Cyganik, Strunz.

The wings were the focus of most of INGENIO's attacks today. Pressing was the tactic of the day for rubens. INGENIO took the lead after 4 minutes as a result of H. Hjertquist's peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. INGENIO had a good opportunity to attack in the middle, but remembered their instructions to focus on wing attacks instead. INGENIO increased the lead as F. Baggen struck to make the score 2 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper. After this, you could see that the players of INGENIO were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of INGENIO to 3 - 0 as A. Michailovas finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. INGENIO's J. Chapari left the field after 20 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was R. Spanik. G. Keinan unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. After 28 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by G. Keinan might have resulted in another goal for INGENIO. However, H. Cenarbe made a spectacular save. A counterattack by rubens after 29 minutes could have resulted in a goal, but J. Socías, coming in on the left, couldn't get the shot off. Almost all the way down to the corner flag, INGENIO's H. Hjertquist somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for G. Keinan, who struck for 4 - 0. 4 - 0 was the halftime score. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by INGENIO, with 66 percent of the ball.

Cheers filled the stadium as A. Fuentes Ros broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 5 - 0 to INGENIO. With 60 minutes played, INGENIO put themselves up 6 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to A. Wuidar, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. rubens pressed their opponents, causing the game to be a bit of a stalemate at times. 64 minutes into the match H. Hjertquist put INGENIO ahead 7 - 0 with a truly marvelous free kick. 65 minutes in, INGENIO's P. Häfliger received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. INGENIO's A. Wuidar increased the lead to 8 - 0, after he saw his shot go between the legs of the advancing goalkeeper following some good play down the right wing after 71 minutes. INGENIO claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 67 percent.

INGENIO's top performer was clearly H. Amiudal. However, R. Spanik made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating rubens player was without a doubt G. Strunz. H. Cenarbe on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 8 - 0.