Vilniaus 9 - 0 RAMZES (383779218)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 32704 to FC Vilniaus Vetros national stadium. Iwan Murry was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Gernot Tomic and Vadim Khrabrov. Everyone was excited about the upcoming Vilnius derby and the crowd was divided evenly. Vilniaus started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Starters: Ruzzante - Deviatjarovas, Souchay, Camerlynck, Aranzábal - Holm Pedersen, Nunes, Geyer, Shaw - Kunstenaar, Pallotta.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for RAMZES. Lineup: Giliauskas - Ševčiuvianecas, Rubanikas, Valojavičius, Lozevičius - Nedashkovskiy, Griškus, Kadys, Voišnis - Piparas, Bladžinauskis.

They were singing the praises of W. Shaw 17 minutes into the match after his speculative chip from the middle of the penalty box found its way over the visitors' keeper to make the score 1 - 0 to Vilniaus. M. Holm Pedersen's early cross saw the defenders caught out of position and the alert G. Pallotta was able to pounce and roll the ball past the hapless goalkeeper to score for Vilniaus. 2 - 0. After 25 minutes, R. Kunstenaar put Vilniaus ahead 3 - 0 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. After 30 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and R. Kunstenaar gave the Vilniaus supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 4 - 0. Given a free kick in a difficult position after 32 minutes, Vilniaus tried a variation that they had practised in training. The kick was sent into the area just in front of the keeper. However, the defence were on their toes and allowed no space for a finish. 34 minutes in, RAMZES's V. Lozevičius received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. With 37 minutes played, Vilniaus put themselves up 5 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to M. Aranzábal, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. At this point, it was obvious that the players of Vilniaus lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. It was 5 - 0 at the break. Vilniaus claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 74 percent.

Cheers filled the stadium as D. Nunes broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 6 - 0 to Vilniaus. The home side's G. Pallotta curled a free kick home after 52 minutes, putting Vilniaus ahead 7 - 0. Vilniaus's G. Pallotta 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 75 minutes. That was his third goal of the match - a hat trick for G. Pallotta. Vilniaus put themselves up 9 - 0 when G. Pallotta broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. Vilniaus had most of the ball, with 78 percent of possession.

The most dominating Vilniaus player was without a doubt R. Kunstenaar. L. Geyer on the other hand, had a terrible day. RAMZES's best player was U. Piparas. On the other hand, V. Giliauskas's play was disheartening. The match ends 9 - 0.