Haringey 7 - 0 United (384123492)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Hippo Park saw a crowd turnout of 44825. Leonardo Juliani was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Antoine Eser and Art Potthoff. Haringey tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Starters: Zahariuc - De Biase, Gámez, Fountas - Çetin, Macháček, Krasnopolski, Tavares Jesus, Johansen - Punpak, Timpano.

United started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players took the field: Beato - Reker, Rzeszot, Cernat - Peres, Makos, Benner, Raffaele, Crosetti - Rame, Kleiven.

It was an obvious ambition of United to use their ability at attacking on the flanks. The visitors' central defence should have had no trouble clearing the pass to L. Macháček, but the Haringey player managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. 1 - 0! With 23 minutes played, Haringey put themselves up 2 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to L. Macháček, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. It was 2 - 0 at the break. Haringey had most of the ball, with 60 percent of possession.

The Haringey coach was visibly pleased with the score so far, but still ordered a few tactical changes 46 minutes into the game. After a short break after 46 minutes, Haringey seemed to change their tactical approach a bit. Haringey managed to extend their lead to 3 - 0 when M. Timpano cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. Confident in their lead, Haringey's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. After 54 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and N. Gámez gave the Haringey supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 4 - 0. Haringey increased the lead as H. Johansen struck to make the score 5 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper. After 59 minutes, L. Macháček put Haringey ahead 6 - 0 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. By then L. Macháček had scored three goals - a hat trick! The coach of Haringey was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 60 minutes, G. Oonk came on for N. Gámez. G. Oonk was handed the Haringey captain's armband. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, H. Johansen got himself booked. The manager of Haringey was not happy. After 69 minutes, Haringey's H. Johansen found the back of the goal with a beautiful free kick. 7 - 0. Possession in this half belonged to Haringey, who controlled the ball 61 percent of the time.

Most important Haringey player was A. Punpak. On the other hand, G. Zahariuc's play was disheartening. The most dominating United player was without a doubt M. Benner. M. Peres was a disappointment, however. The match ends 7 - 0.