Kurtaran 3 - 1 Lugau (384291506)

37225 punters turned up at FC Kurtaran Arena, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Jannik Wistinghausen was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Daniel Arenas and Gino Fornasari. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Kurtaran. They fielded: Gravenreuth - Kmetty, Wolfsberger, Mari - Płachciński, Luxburg, Eckstein, Paulsen, Schüttenhelm - Friedrichshall, 恒利 (Hengli).

Lugau had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Thy - Skoging, Dyachenko, Cileček - Himmanen, Bobrowski, Kobæk Larsen, Sawko, Bashir - Hamerlinck, Cool.

After 2 minutes of play, 包. 恒利 (Hengli) gave the home team a 1 - 0 lead after an attack coming in from the right. The visitors were awarded a penalty by the referee 6 minutes into the match, much to the anger of the home crowd. V. Dyachenko took advantage of the situation and scored to make it 1 - 1. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, V. Dyachenko got himself booked. The manager of Lugau was not happy. R. Gravenreuth looked great 14 minutes into the match after stopping a shot from the middle of the penalty area from the visitors' M. Hamerlinck. With 22 minutes played L. Płachciński almost put the home team one ahead on a cross coming in from the right, but the shot went just wide. The teams went for the halftime break at 1 - 1. Kurtaran claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 54 percent.

O. Paulsen gave Kurtaran the lead with a beautiful free kick after 49 minutes. 2 - 1! A magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Kurtaran's 包. 恒利 (Hengli) increasing the lead to 3 - 1. Kurtaran's J. Friedrichshall saw his fine effort strike the top of the bar following some good work up the middle by his teammates after 81 minutes. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Kurtaran, with 54 percent of the ball.

J. Friedrichshall performed admirably for Kurtaran. R. Gravenreuth was a disappointment, however. Most important Lugau player was M. Hamerlinck. A. Himmanen on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 1.