Barcadi 2 - 1 CívisKelen (383866467)

Clouds darkened the skies at Bar Arena as 39897 spectators turned up for the match. Soriano Mut was the appointed referee with assistance provided by David Hess and Kari Tuulari. Barcadi started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Bartholdschuetz - Waar, Shemesh, Busstra - bin Ali, Laitila, Németh, Miljković, Obradović - Demarchi, Pieraccini.

CívisKelen decided to use a 4-5-1 set up. The following players took the field: Aures - Pyle, Barnes, Paonessa, Westcott - Pashkevich, Mat, Ramírez, Alexander, Pocsai - Dorfmeister.

Barcadi tried to focus their attacks down the middle. With 5 minutes played, the home side managed to get a 1 - 0 lead as M. Pieraccini flipped the ball in after a cross from the right. Barcadi were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. O. Alexander finished off a quick charge from the left of the field by chipping the ball just past the home side's keeper, making the score 1 - 1 31 minutes into the match. Barcadi made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left G. Demarchi completely alone with keeper A. Aures, who made a spectacular block. A counterattack by CívisKelen after 36 minutes could have resulted in a goal, but H. Dorfmeister, coming in on the left, couldn't get the shot off. CívisKelen's A. Paonessa was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 37 minutes. It was 1 - 1 at the break. Possession in this half belonged to Barcadi, who controlled the ball 56 percent of the time.

Making his way up the middle 56 minutes into the match, R. bin Ali almost managed to squeeze a goal past the visitors' keeper, but the alert A. Aures blocked it to keep the score level. A. Paonessa knew he was in trouble after hacking down an opponent. Despite his pleading with the referee, the CívisKelen player was shown a second yellow card and dismissed from the game. After a fine move down the middle G. Demarchi nearly gave the home side a goal after 67 minutes. However the finishing shot went just wide. CívisKelen almost scored after a swift counterattack 68 minutes into the game, but C. Mat put the shot from the left flank just outside the goal. After 74 minutes, the CívisKelen coach wanted to see a new face on the pitch, waving H. Dorfmeister off the field. M. Santoro took his place. It was obvious that team Barcadi had instructions to attack in the middle instead of on the wings. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to A. Shemesh, but the Barcadi player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 2 - 1! Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Barcadi, with 62 percent of the ball.

Most important Barcadi player was D. Németh. S. Obradović on the other hand, had a terrible day. O. Alexander performed admirably for CívisKelen. C. Mat was a disappointment, however. The match ends 2 - 1.