Malacky 4 - 0 Polska (383849106)

The crowd of 12000 turning up at World XI Ma Stadium today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Giancarlo Angius was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Mikhail Mukhametov and Sascha Sinn. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Malacky. The following players had been chosen: Bocquet - Kramarčík, Moşescu, Nurminiemi - Delmas, Ferreira, Borák, Zuckerman, Torralva - Nárožný, Bujda.

Polska tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. They fielded: Large - Januščák, Košela, Kvaska, Tulák - Kučeravý, Cirák, Shandruk, Keliar - Vaškovský, Vykopal.

It was obvious that Polska were using their pressing skill as their primary tactic. V. Moşescu, who often relies on his speed, had a rotten day on the drenched grass. Malacky made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left Á. Torralva completely alone with keeper M. Large, who made a spectacular block. Malacky had a good opportunity to take the lead as J. Nárožný came up the left side, but he struck the ball weakly and it went straight into the arms of M. Large. It was 0 - 0 at the break. Malacky enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 79 percent of possession.

They were singing the praises of Á. Torralva 48 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 Malacky. Polska's B. Kvaska was shown a yellow card after 59 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Due to a severely mistimed tackle, J. Borák of Malacky spent some time on the grass writhing in agony before he could get up and continue the game. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of Malacky to 2 - 0 as J. Delmas finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. Malacky managed to extend their lead to 3 - 0 when J. Delmas cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. After this, you could see that the players of Malacky were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. One of many good crosses from J. Delmas on the wing was received and skillfully taken care of by H. Bujda, who scored for Malacky. 4 - 0 85 minutes into the match Polska's D. Kučeravý head butted an opponent nastily, and so the referee sent him off immediately. Malacky were forced into a substitution as H. Bujda couldn't continue due to some rough treatment, forcing T. Van Mol to come in off the bench. 88 minutes into the match, M. Kramarčík could have extended the lead, but his powerful free kick went just over the bar. S. Ferreira could have put Malacky up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 88 minutes. Possession in this half belonged to Malacky, who controlled the ball 88 percent of the time.

The most dominating Malacky player was without a doubt J. Nárožný. On the other hand, T. Van Mol's play was disheartening. J. Tulák performed admirably for Polska. F. Cirák on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 0.