Horses 1 - 0 Düsseldorf (384345980)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 22647 at Crazy Horses Arena today. Sergiu Balint was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Robert Joga and Johny Hornnes. Horses tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players took the field: Logar - Dudschke, Westner, Aydar - Bahnsen, Grekopoulos, Scheufler, Kobus, Krebsförden - Varel, Schall.

Düsseldorf decided to use a 3-5-2 set up. Starters: Von der Mühll - Landemaine, Longo, Skartados - Lemos, Kolehmainen, Pirpamer, Štryncl, Dufaj - Ulfsson, Gottfeldt.

After 6 minutes, the visitors nearly went up a goal, but A. Pirpamer's free kick hit the crossbar. 23 minutes into the match and the home team took a 1 - 0 lead after breaking through on the left. The scorer for Horses was A. Varel. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave A. Longo from Düsseldorf a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 34 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! The player down was B. Scheufler. The Horses bench looked worried for a while, but in the end he managed to get up. Halftime score was 1 - 0. Horses claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

After 68 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by T. Kobus might have resulted in another goal for Horses. However, T. Von der Mühll made a spectacular save. Düsseldorf had a chance to level the score as G. Lemos suddenly found himself free in the middle of the box with only the keeper to beat, but he misjudged the finish, and only managed to hit the bar. Horses had most of the ball, with 54 percent of possession.

Horses's top performer was clearly A. Varel. On the other hand, L. Dudschke's play was disheartening. The most dominating Düsseldorf player was without a doubt G. Ulfsson. However, M. Dufaj made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 1 - 0.