Matrica 1 - 4 karaliai (383710408)

The weather was pretty good, and a crowd of 52676 had shown up at Sharan Arena for the match. Edouard Bunel was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Wijnand van Polanen and Andrei Grecu. Matrica decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. Lineup: Schilder - Musso, Lesueur, Teškevičius, Gürelli - Choate, Galvão, Feierabend, Vermus - Vilhais, Obertraut.

A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for karaliai. They fielded: Oktürk - Waterinckx, Valembois - Puura, Fasiol, Burzachechi, Muštukas, Rubino - Just, Bienert, Overweg.

Matrica took the lead 3 minutes in, as S. Feierabend broke through on the left and put the 1 - 0 shot just beyond the reach of the outstretched keeper. The visitors refused to give in and, after 8 minutes, K. Bienert evened things up as he finished off a perfect pass from the right. 1 - 1 As B. Rubino had, completely unprovoked, swept the legs out from under an opponent in front of a linesman, the referee gave the karaliai player a red card without batting an eyelid. The visiting M. Waterinckx was booed thoroughly by the home crowd 30 minutes into the game, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 1 - 2 was the score. No matter how hard he tried, P. Obertraut just couldn't get his shot past the visitors' right side defence after 33 minutes. P. Obertraut was just a finger's breadth away from an equaliser for Matrica with a strike from the left, but T. Oktürk managed to ward the shot off for a corner. 1 - 2 was the halftime score. karaliai had most of the ball, with 55 percent of possession.

The visitors' G. Just took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 47 minutes into the match. 1 - 3 for karaliai. By now, the players in karaliai felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. karaliai's K. Bienert was shown a yellow card after 68 minutes for slicing down an opponent. karaliai increased their lead after 81 minutes when R. Overweg broke through on the right, upping the score to 1 - 4, much to the home crowd's dismay. P. Vilhais really should have scored when he was chosen by fate to confront a wide open goal following a great play by M. Lesueur after a corner. M. Fasiol could have put his team up another goal 83 minutes into the game, after a rush down the left, but his closing shot hit the post. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by karaliai, with 58 percent of the ball.

Most important Matrica player was P. Obertraut. G. Gürelli on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating karaliai player was without a doubt K. Bienert. T. Puura turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 1 - 4.