Venture 7 - 0 carbayin (383446220)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 11347 to Venture Arena. Marco Hess was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Vincenzo Ardistio and Pablo Bonné. Venture tactics involved an interesting 3-4-3 combination. Starters: Mattozzi - Cutuneguieta, Bräuer, Bravo - Manrique, Pidal, Goig, Ramió - Torner, Isasa, Agarrado.

carbayin had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. The following players took the field: Cordero - Carabalí, Cariello, Quadra, Urones - Velasco Pando, Vandelvira, Santillana, Geronella - Durikiz, Sánchez Ortiz.

Venture seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. M. Agarrado dispatched a majestic long shot 20 minutes into the match, but missed the goal by a few metres. It was almost a goal for carbayin following P. Geronella's good header after a corner, it went just over the bar though. The referee showed Venture's J. Manrique the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. With 38 minutes played, the home side managed to get a 1 - 0 lead as V. Torner flipped the ball in after a cross from the right. J. Durikiz of carbayin received a yellow card after 41 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Central attacks were the recipe of the day for Venture, as they moved the ball from the wings to the middle with startling regularity. V. Torner had a fantastic opportunity to put Venture up another goal 43 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. Venture solidified their lead at the 43 minute mark, as J. Manrique dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 2 - 0. H. Goig hit the corner kick straight to the keeper, but it was mishandled, giving Venture's J. Manrique an easy chance to knock it in for 3 - 0. The players of Venture now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. Things were deteriorating for the away team as Venture scored another to make it 4 - 0 after a left side attack resulted in a goal for M. Agarrado after 44 minutes. 4 - 0 was the score after the first half. Venture claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 73 percent.

After 78 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by R. Bravo might have resulted in another goal for Venture. However, J. Cordero made a spectacular save. H. Goig increased the lead for Venture to 5 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! 80 minutes in, Venture's M. Ramió received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. After 82 minutes, Venture sent a free kick in high over the penalty box. In what looked like a well-rehearsed move, the ball was headed backwards and reached M. Cutuneguieta, who had plenty of space to place a well aimed shot - 6 - 0. After 85 minutes Venture's M. Agarrado contracted a slight foot injury, but didn't want to leave the game. Venture had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle attacks. Cheers filled the stadium as M. Cutuneguieta broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 7 - 0 to Venture. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Venture, with 79 percent of the ball.

Venture's top performer was clearly M. Ramió. However, D. Mattozzi made a disastrous appearance. carbayin's best player was Á. Velasco Pando. M. Carabalí turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 7 - 0.