machen 5 - 0 Eimsbütteler (384292936)

Clear skies welcomed the 24661 spectators who had made their way to NRW Fussballtempel. Charles Brink was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Leonardas Sergeječevas and Alfred Cesar. machen had chosen a strategic 2-5-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Soteras - Czapiasty, Štych - Starzecki, Spottag, Armani, Miu, Hable - Jester, Paganoni, Kleszcz.

A 4-5-1 alignment was the formation of choice for Eimsbütteler. They fielded: van Keeken - Traberg, Amichai, Hawryszko, Thiesel - Lipschitz, Vorwiesen, Campalans, Prokhortsev, Hangaard - Nowik.

machen clearly had decided to counter-attack when they could. Eimsbütteler were relying on their ability to counter-attack. S. Spottag caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 2 minutes. This gave machen the 1 - 0 lead. machen solidified their lead at the 6 minute mark, as A. Jester dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 2 - 0. After 9 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by F. Armani might have resulted in another goal for machen. However, H. van Keeken made a spectacular save. With 11 minutes played, machen put themselves up 3 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to A. Jester, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. Confident in their lead, machen's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. The teams went for the halftime break at 3 - 0. machen enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 62 percent of possession.

Content with how the game was proceeding, the machen coach let M. Yovkov replace S. Spottag after 75 minutes. W. Starzecki's early cross saw the defenders caught out of position and the alert P. Paganoni was able to pounce and roll the ball past the hapless goalkeeper to score for machen. 4 - 0. machen managed to extend their lead to 5 - 0 when F. Armani cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. machen claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 61 percent.

P. Paganoni performed admirably for machen. J. Soteras on the other hand, had a terrible day. Eimsbütteler's best player was R. Nowik. On the other hand, X. Campalans's play was disheartening. The match ends 5 - 0.